Question:
Sulfiting will not sterilize a wine bottle. Those sprayers are useless for sterilization. In order for sulfite to kill bacteria it needs to be in a 3.4 pH solution (such as wine). The B-Brite and dishwasher seem like the best idea. Another method I was taught was to add 1 cup of bleach to 1 gallon of warm water. Put the solution in the bottle and move it around quickly and pour it out. Then use very hot tap water to rinse the bottle until no chlorine odor can be detected. The main problem with bleach is that chlorine kills wine and it is very difficult to discern when all the bleach odor is out of a bottle. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -right now I dunk the cleaned bottles in a 5 gallon pail filled about 3 gallons full of sterilizer.It’s messy and takes awhile. there got to be another way. If heard of a sulfite pump to spray the inside of bottles like a bottle washer, but haven’t seen one. any ideas????? <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1762/index.html"PAUL’S WORLD</AWinemaking recipes , Wisconsin Wineries & Breweries(GreenBay,Wisconsin)<A HREF="http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/redwine"Yahoo! Clubs – redwine</Ahome winemakers club
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Sulfiter’s are not useless. Sulfiting is still the best way of sterilizing a bottle. When I make a solution of sulfite I always add an equal amount of Citric Acid. Hence your Acidic properties. — Doug Evans VinBrew Supply 740/756-4314 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sulfiting will not sterilize a wine bottle. Those sprayers are useless for sterilization. In order for sulfite to kill bacteria it needs to be in a 3.4 pH solution (such as wine). The B-Brite and dishwasher seem like the best idea. Another method I was taught was to add 1 cup of bleach to 1 gallon of warm water. Put the solution in the bottle and move it around quickly and pour it out. Then use very hot tap water to rinse the bottle until no chlorine odor can be detected. The main problem with bleach is that chlorine kills wine and it is very difficult to discern when all the bleach odor is out of a bottle.
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The recipe on my sodium metabisulfite container says to mix 3 tbs of the powder with 1 gal of water. Using an equal amount of citric acid what is then the formula, 3 and 3 or 1.5 and 1.5 tbs? TIA, Guy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Sulfiter’s are not useless. Sulfiting is still the best way of sterilizing a bottle. When I make a solution of sulfite I always add an equal amount of Citric Acid. Hence your Acidic properties. — Doug Evans VinBrew Supply 740/756-4314
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I use 1 tablespoon of sulfite and 1 Tablespoon of citric acid. For One gallon of water. — Doug Evans VinBrew Supply 740/756-4314
The recipe on my sodium metabisulfite container says to mix 3 tbs of the powder with 1 gal of water. Using an equal amount of citric acid what is then the formula, 3 and 3 or 1.5 and 1.5 tbs?
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I used to use bleach to sterilize bottles before bottling. Then in 1989, I had some help cleaning bottles from one of my partner’s kids. They neglected to RINSE some of the bottles. The wine in those bottles was completely undrinkable. Since then, I’ve abandoned all extreme attempts at sterilization of bottles. Since I recycle about 90+% of my glass, I just rinse each bottle when I empty it, turn it upside-down in the sink to dry, and store it with eleven others just like it neck-down in a case. When it’s time to bottle, I load up a drying tree with the bottles, hose the OUTSIDES only to remove the dust, and use them right off the tree. I believe that it’s more important to rinse the CORKS than already-clean glass that has been stored correctly. I haven’t had a problem since, and I’ve bottled hundreds of cases this way over the last ten years. I know for a fact that the commercial wineries do not wash their glass. Of course it’s brand new glass, and is used straight from shrink-wrapped pallets that have been packaged as soon as the bottles cool. Tom S
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…it’s more important to rinse the CORKS than already-clean glass that has been stored correctly… Tom S
How do you rince the corks? TIA, Guy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –
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…it’s more important to rinse the CORKS than already-clean glass that has been stored correctly… How do you rince the corks?
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