Bottle Rinsing Rant

posted by Jon

So I'm kind of getting tired of cleaning out bottles that are returned to me without having been rinsed. I just timed how long it takes to rinse out a bottle by adding a bit of hot water, putting my thumb over the top, shaking it, dumping it out and repeating that process twice more. It took a whopping 23 seconds. That's less than 3 minutes per month. Please make this a habit.

Even with this post, I'm sure I will still continue to get bottles with stale beer and 3 months of mold growth in the bottom. I was thinking that maybe I would charge per dirty bottle returned to me. The problem is that I imagine some of you would rather pay a little more than make a habit of cleaning, which still leaves me to do the cleaning. What I think makes more sense is that I just stop cleaning your bottles. I'll just mark which bottles came from which person. When you crack open a nice IPA and have a massive chunk of red and black mold floating in it, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.