Re: [DIYbio] Boston-area autoclave / supplies?

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Dakota Hamill <dkotes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be using it for sterilizing media mainly.  As far as beer bottling goes,
> I used bleach on 10, 1/2 gallon growlers (I got them right in
> downtown Somerville for $2 a piece) when I bottled and the beer came out
> fine.  They also sell that powdered sterilizer at brewing stores that you
> don't have to rinse a bunch and that works just as well.  I probably
> wouldn't use bleach if I made beer again, I kept thinking I could smell it
> even after a lot of rinses so it was driving me sort of crazy.

Bleach is famous for not going away.  And of course, if you rinse it
with unsterilized water you're just re-introducing microbes.  I use
Star-San, but the foam (after putting it into a bunch of bottles and
then pouring it out again) is really, really annoying.

> Pressure sterilizing 50+ beer bottles per beer batch seems like torture.

I guess it would be.  I was thinking of putting cotton in the mouths
and then putting them in stapled-shut paper bags.  That way I could do
a ton of them at once and then have sterile bottles whenever I need
them.  This is why I was hoping to find an autoclave I could use - you
can fit a whole lot of beer bottles in a decent sized autoclave.

-Dan

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