BeerBorg

I picked up a bottle washer that shoots pressurized water into each bottle. It was less than 8.00 and makes cleaning bottles really easy!
I feel the same that felt like when I bought my wort chiller. I can't brew without it now.

I have a few of them. I wash my bottles, kegs and fermenters with them. Works a treat.
Just don't turn the water on and get close to it as you look at it or it'll put your eye out.

Beer-lord wrote:I have a few of them. I wash my bottles, kegs and fermenters with them. Works a treat.
Just don't turn the water on and get close to it as you look at it or it'll put your eye out.

Or it will put a hole in your ceiling. That's what the guy at the LHBS told me.

Which one did you get?

I have this one... Like it a lot!

That's the one that I got. It's great.

I have the same one as well. I'd say 95% of all bottles cleaned with these are ready to use, but every once in a while I'd get a random gusher. So I mix a batch of StarSan and leave a bottle brush in it to soak before use. I use the bottle brush to give each bottle a quick scrub before blasting the insides with hot water. Since doing this I've gotten my bottled beers to be nearly 100% gusher proof.

At home I pour myself a bottle of beer then rinse it out 2-3 times before inverting it and putting it in the kitchen drain board. These bottles seldom give you any problems, it's the ones other folks open during parties or picnics that can be a problem. If beer sits in these bottles long enough for it to dry out it will take a bit of scrubbing with a bottle brush to really get it clean again. All it takes is a bit of smudge inside to prevent StarSan from getting underneath it and you've got yourself a gusher in the making.

ScrewyBrewer wrote:I have the same one as well. I'd say 95% of all bottles cleaned with these are ready to use, but every once in a while I'd get a random gusher. So I mix a batch of StarSan and leave a bottle brush in it to soak before use. I use the bottle brush to give each bottle a quick scrub before blasting the insides with hot water. Since doing this I've gotten my bottled beers to be nearly 100% gusher proof.

At home I pour myself a bottle of beer then rinse it out 2-3 times before inverting it and putting it in the kitchen drain board. These bottles seldom give you any problems, it's the ones other folks open during parties or picnics that can be a problem. If beer sits in these bottles long enough for it to dry out it will take a bit of scrubbing with a bottle brush to really get it clean again. All it takes is a bit of smudge inside to prevent StarSan from getting underneath it and you've got yourself a gusher in the making.

+1

I use absolutely the same process...

Me too, all of the above, with one exception. After a rinse, a drop of soap, another rinse or two. Each of these only uses a couple of ounces of water. If after that there are stains, rings at the neck, etc, I just drop the bottle in the recycle bin. I have used brushes, PBW, and boiling water with success. Then I realized that bottles are 5c, and I bring in more than I need. So I don't spend more time and material than they are worth.
To the original post, I like the bottle washer and my wort chiller. I'm not a brewer to collect too much equipment, I like to keep it simple. But a few good, simple, tools make the whole process easier. The wort chiller paid for itself in a few batches by saving money on ice.