[djf]

Anybody having some good tips about prepping/sterilizing bottles, I’m all ears!
I have about 200 Grolsch bottles I use, but it’s truly a pain to prep enuff for 5G of beer or cider...

Mt dark ale still has a significant sulfur odor (odor, not taste). As always, time might fix it.

My cider which was very sour when I first bottled it has mellowed alot!

Luv that hard cider! Probably the easiest thing to brew there is!

Need to get more Wyeast 1968 ale yeast, though... maybe later today.

[Red_Devil 232]

I rinse each bottle as soon as it is empty and store in a closed box. Then all I need to do is sterilize them when bottling. I have read that a lot of people use their dishwasher, the heat cycle of a dishwasher will do the sterilization.

I like to use a sanitizer solution (Star San)and this device (Bottle Rinser (Sulfiter). Then take a bottle, push it down on the white shaft, and the solution is injected into the bottle. drop your caps in the solution reservoir. I can do 55 bottles in about 10 min.

I use the dishwasher as a drying rack. Then store the bottles in covered box until bottling day.

[Red_Devil 232]

What type of yeast did you use for your dark ale? Many lager yeast strains produce noticeable amounts of hydrogen sulfide during fermentation. Cold bottle conditioning should cure it.