When you homebrew, and bottle, you are eternally on a hunt for bottles.
Well, let's re-state that...
If you GIVE a lot of bottles away, you are on an eternal hunt for bottles.
I have very generous friends who share their bottles with me. Many of these friends who homebrew.
Very often, these bottles are not rinsed. I don't know why. Bottles which are not rinsed, quickly grow mold and bacteria. They take less than 5 days to become essentially useless. I mean, it can be very gross trying to get mold out, to the point where I will only do it if the bottle is special in some way (a Belgian bottle, a flip-top bottle, etc)
Sometimes, bottle conditioning will result in yeast being stuck to the bottom of a bottle. This is normal.. Typically a quick couple of rinse and shake cycles, will remove this.
Often, the sediment can be stuck on the bottom and shake-rinsing doesn't help. For this problem, I have come up with a new solution:
Drop 6-8 washers or nuts in the bottle, add a little water, and swirl.
The nuts will scrape the sediment off the bottom of the bottle very quickly, and BINGO! Fixed!
It's the best way I find, because I hate using a bottle brush- bottle brushes are messy, flicking water all over the place. I'm SO glad I came up with this idea today!
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