happy with my T500

[brummel]

Been using it for a year or so and other than making up a wee manifold with 2 washing machine taps, 1 to turn the water on and off, the 2nd to set and leave to take the pressure off the needle valve. I t seems to do exactly what it says on the box,
I do put things through twice one fast one slow, so have a pothead in the offing to speed that up

[John51]

I love mine too. So much that finishing my diy still is at the bottom of the project list.

I only run once but very slow and don't filter. Chains me to the kitchen most Sundays but having the net makes it ok, I'd be surfing or watching movies anyway.

[brummel]

does take a while dosnt it, the up side is u get all your bottles sterlised and get the good of all that hot water. I am plumed in to my dishwasher feed and a manifild betyween there and the needle valve, It helps a lot, the needle valve is a lot less fiddly with less preddure behind it, i can now flush the loo etc without any change.
I fancy a go at gin, so the pothead would be for that too

[Capt-Cudellez]

the up side is u get all your bottles sterlised

Just wondering why are you sterilising bottles 40%+ isnt going to let anything grow in there. We're not making beer or wine.

A rinse out to stop the last contents contaminating the taste is all that is needed.

[brummel]

I make wine too,

[Capt-Cudellez]

I make wine too,

Ah cool, I didn't get that from your post. Just thought you'd carried a beer makers mantra into the filthy world of distilling.

[brummel]

allways something needing sterlising. what bikes have u?

[John51]

The only thing I've used VWP for in the last 2 years is to clean the stains from my kitchen sink.

Once the run is started, I clean the fermenter with cold water and make up a new wash.

[Almanac]

I don't sterilise my collections jars or storage DJ's & Kegs for the same reason Cap'n C said but I do rinse with cold water to remove any residue.

AM

[Easydrinker]

And another plus 1 to the lazy, crazy, hectic days of knowing the provenance of your brew and glassware.
If it is new to me it gets washed in household bleach;Otherwise it gets sniffed and possibly rinsed,as will have been done on last useage.
I think this was the part of the process that finally put an end to my beer and wine making; sterilising and rinsing bottles,- life is too short to do it in your spare time.
Maybe one day when I am older and greyer,and afternoons are measured out with coffee spoons,I'll give it another go.
Robert.

[John51]

Me too, got a beer kit that's over a year old. Can't be bothered with the sterilise and rinse routine plus the sore back after syponing into the bottles.

[brummel]

Well I used 120 quids worth of brambles this year, not going to risk loosingit for want of sterlising.
Aye thin household bleach is fine too