Sanitizing bottles

Is it ok to sanitize bottles the night before your going to bottle? Or should I wait & sanitize right before I bottle? Thanks

Great question, can't wait to read the replies.

If bottles are clean and dry bacteria won't inhabit them easily. They will be fine for that length of time. I prefer to keep them on a bottle tree until ready to use so that no dust can settle in them.

and to add..i keep them upside down in a box

Personally, I strongly feel that all wine making items (including bottles) should be sanitized immediately prior to use.


Steve

I'm gonna jump on the wagon with cpfan on this one. I always sanitize my bottles just before filling them. I'm not saying doing it sooner is wrong it's just that in my mind I want to minimize any chance of anything ruining my batch of wine.

I keep mine upside down in wine boxes and rinse with K-Meta solution just before bottling.

BOB

All this talk about washing bottles got me reminiscing about my favorite
chore when working summers and holidays at my families regional coffee
roasting plant. I was a teenager at the time. We also produced
extracts and flavorings for cooking (vanilla extract ans so on) and the
new bottles had to be washed. We would take them from the box and
place them in this machine on little spindles upside-down. Hot water
would squirt in and on them as they made a 360 degree trip around the
machine that held a couple hundred of them. Then you would take them
off the other end. It took two ladies (we called them White Hairs, now I
am a White Hair) to operate, one to load one to unload. The machine
was continuous, no stopping. My cousins and I (all teens at the time
and partners in crime) loved showing the ladies that we could load and
unload with only one person, running back and forth fast as we could.
My grandfather (president and as we say in Sicilian Patroni) chuckled
watching us and seeing the humor of how much work he was getting out of
us knowing that in a few minutes we would be hiding behind stacks of
green coffee avoiding work.

I store all my clean bottles upside down in boxes and then sanitize just before bottling hanging them on a tree.

That's what I do too. I was just wanting to save some time today since I have to bottle 2 wines. Thanks for the input. Hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving!

They will be fine. Happy Bottling!!!