Bottle washing, the down side of bottling your own beer.

What you see in the photo is actually bottle soaking. I soak the bottles I’m going to put my beer in for about a half-hour in a sink filled with water that has a dab of bleach in it, to kill off any little beasties that have taken up residence. Then I grab a bottle brush and scrub out each bottle individually with hot, soapy water, a project that takes sixty to ninety minutes. When I get to that stage of the game I’ll be much too busy to snap a photo. Also, I won’t be in a good mood. Bottle washing makes me hot and sweaty and I tend to cuss a lot when I pull the brush out of the bottle and get sprayed in the face with soap, which happens a lot. If you know the secret to washing bottles without getting a face full of soap, you could pass it along to me and I’d appreciate it so much that I’d send you free beer.