needmorstuff Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Hi, I am on the search for an inexpensive way of washing and draining/storing bottle with a diameter of 100mm... for my Gin. For washing I was thinking of this - Bottle Washer Double Blast Bit draining bottles economically and storing is proving more difficult.. the "tree" style ones leave water in the neck and the rack style ones all seem to be for beer or wine bottles. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulNL Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Cheapest but quite effective bottle washer you can get is the Avvinatore from Enolandia, you can find it on Ebay. That's what all the small winemakers in Europe use. Rack style bottle draining/storage is often limited indeed, I found one that holds 8 of my (wide) gin bottles even though it's designed for 25 beer bottles or 16 wine bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needmorstuff Posted October 28, 2018 Author Share Posted October 28, 2018 HI Paul - I have seen that in quote a few places and it looks ok.. I will be working with a batch size of 100 or so bottles.. I can quickly imagine me breaking that washer with the spring inside. I think i know the 25 bottle drainer you refer to and that was my concern that I would only get 4 or 8 per layer. So be it.. unless there are others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulNL Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 100 bottles a batch is no problem for the Avvinatore, you might have to change the water/whatever a few times in between but that only takes seconds. If you find a better system to drain the bottles I'm certainly interested! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needmorstuff Posted October 28, 2018 Author Share Posted October 28, 2018 thanks Paul - I have contacted fastrack to check what dimensions they are between holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needmorstuff Posted October 28, 2018 Author Share Posted October 28, 2018 I have just seen a pic of the fastrack 24 and rather than using the 4 corners you stagger the bottles per row.. that way you get 12 bottles per layer. I'll buy a few and see if it works out ok. The other option I considered was buying some sheets of 5mm plexi and drilling out holes for the neck and fashioning a leg at each corner using threaded rod and nuts.. then just not stacking them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cru Bottling Systems Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Sorry to be so late the conversation on this, but depending on your budget, Tardito makes excellent equipment that rinses/air sparges/recycles your product or any combination of these processes. Check them out HERE and let me know if I can answer any questions. Thanks! -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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