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Many home
brewers don't realize it, but beer bottles can be
oven-baked for easy sanitization. In fact, the bottles are
more than just sanitized – they are sterilized. As a
further advantage, the bottles may be baked in advance and
then used at any time in the future, and they will remain
sterile. The only time you spend is loading the oven. In
other words, you've reduced the chore of cleaning bottles
to the mere five minutes required to fill the oven. What
could be easier!
Bottle Baking
Instructions
1. Cover each
bottle top with a small piece of aluminum foil (for example,
a 2" x 2" square.)
2. Place the
bottles upright on the oven's bottom shelf.
3. Bake at
350° F for 90 minutes. Allow bottles to cool naturally, such
as overnight.
4. If you will
not be filling the bottles immediately, place them back in
their cardboard cases. As long as the aluminum foil remains
intact, the bottles will remain sterile indefinitely -
ready to use whenever you are ready to bottle.
5. At bottling
time, simply remove the foil and fill the bottle. No
sanitizers or rinsing is necessary.
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