packing bottles

[brewsoda]

Anyone have a tip on keeping bottles clean during bottling for packing cases the next day? It seems we spend way too much time "polishing" bottles while we're packing!

[jrdamas]

Are they just getting dusty? How about using some shrink wrap.

[brewsoda]

It isn't dust that's the problem....we rinse the bottles as we fill them, and that leaves some water marks....but I think the main problem is the silicone on the bottles - or whatever is on them when we purchase them new.

[Moonlight]

Car dealers use deionized water to rinse the new cars on the lots to solve that problem. Maybe you've just got a lot of minerals in your water. A normal softener may help, or a expensive de-ionizer will help, or maybe just a little non-foaming surfactant in your rinse water would fix it.