Pre sterilizing vials

[Cumminstech]

Hey guys, had an idea to make home brewing a tiny bit easier of a process and wanted to run it by the group here to get some feedback

the most time consuming part of home brewing for me is sterilizing the vials and stoppers. By the time my brew is filtered and ready to be dispersed into vials, I still usually have a little over an hour left in the oven until all of the vials are done baking.

my question is that if I ordered a large amount of vials and stoppers, could I just wash them and sterilize them ahead of time, and then just put them in a vacuum sealable bag and vacuum seal the shit out of them and put them in my dresser drawer until I need them? Then all I’d have to do is brew and fill which is the easy part, and I’d always have sterile vials and stoppers ready to go…

thoughts???

 

[effiffoff]

I wouldnt do it personally unless you have a real lab at home to make sure everything is okay. For the same reason I always cook for maximum 4 months.

I am extra careful tho.

"By the time my brew is filtered and ready to be dispersed into vials, I still usually have a little over an hour left in the oven until all of the vials are done baking."
Then just start sooner with the vials than you do with your 'oil'?

 

[Cumminstech]

I wouldnt do it personally unless you have a real lab at home to make sure everything is okay. For the same reason I always cook for maximum 4 months.

I am extra careful tho.

"By the time my brew is filtered and ready to be dispersed into vials, I still usually have a little over an hour left in the oven until all of the vials are done baking."
Then just start sooner with the vials than you do with your 'oil'?

What is a “real lab” ?
is a set up to brew steroids at home not considered a real lab?

It’s more about the convenience of sterilizing one big batch and having sterile vials ready to go for convenience, as opposed to doing a couple every single time.

You can buy packs of sterile vials online so if they can do it then I have to be able to do it as well. The question is will my method of vacuum sealing be sufficient? I can put the sterilized rubber stoppers on and tape them down and then vacuum seal them all too.

 

[Jet Labs]

Hey guys, had an idea to make home brewing a tiny bit easier of a process and wanted to run it by the group here to get some feedback

the most time consuming part of home brewing for me is sterilizing the vials and stoppers. By the time my brew is filtered and ready to be dispersed into vials, I still usually have a little over an hour left in the oven until all of the vials are done baking.

my question is that if I ordered a large amount of vials and stoppers, could I just wash them and sterilize them ahead of time, and then just put them in a vacuum sealable bag and vacuum seal the shit out of them and put them in my dresser drawer until I need them? Then all I’d have to do is brew and fill which is the easy part, and I’d always have sterile vials and stoppers ready to go…

thoughts???

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[Cumminstech]

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They sell sterile stoppers too

Interesting but expensive. It would take me a lifetime to use 716 vials. I just wanna get like 1 or 2 hundred on Amazon and sterilize them all and then put them into vacuum sealed bags of about 20ish each. Same with the stoppers.

then just open a bag of sealed vials and ready to go.

If I sterilized vials and the stoppers and then put tape over the stoppers so they couldn’t come off, that would work as well would it not?

 

[Cumminstech]

@Skarpyona

 

[Jestopherson]

@Skarpyona

Bringing out the big guns haha

 

[Jet Labs]

Interesting but expensive. It would take me a lifetime to use 716 vials. I just wanna get like 1 or 2 hundred on Amazon and sterilize them all and then put them into vacuum sealed bags of about 20ish each. Same with the stoppers.

then just open a bag of sealed vials and ready to go.

If I sterilized vials and the stoppers and then put tape over the stoppers so they couldn’t come off, that would work as well would it not?

Bake cleaned 10ml vials at 450 for 2 hours and bake cleaned silicone stoppers for 1 hour at 350 and time it so both are done at same time.

While still hot press stoppers onto vials then let them cool, this creates suction and stoppers will be nice and snug. Now you can place individual vials in fresh ziplock bags for storage.

When time comes to use bake again at 350 for one hour and you are good to go.

Hope this helps.

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For vials, stoppers and flip caps that are good.

 

[Skarpyona]

@Skarpyona

"Oh merrymen!"

I have been dutifully summoned.

Yes you can pre sterilize and store it until needed, but you want to be sure you do it right.

Pre sterilizing and storing vials separately from your stopppers is creating unnecessary chances for contamination; will you be sterilizing your vacuum bag? Then maybe.

I'm going to repeat what my man @JetsFan said and tell you the best option is to put those little rubber bastards on when hot and as they cool, negative pressure builds and keeps that sucker in place. If you want to be absolutely certain they wont pop off(doubtful especially if you're going to be putting them in vacuum bags which creates another level of negative pressure), you could put on masking tape, as it leaves the least amount of residue. If you put anything heavier duty, you'll be having a hell of a time scraping that shit off your stopper, and if you forego that step you risk intruding adhesive into your gear. You'll want to give them all a proper rub with alcohol after if you do tape them up.

Ultimately I'm in the same boat as you. Sterilizing takes the most significant amount of my time in the process, so I like to sterilize in bulk in advance.

 

[Hollow123]

As daft as this sounds, put the rubbers in but don’t crimp the tops. Then remove the rubbers, re steralise them when your filling the vials and then put them in and crimp.

My only worry is if the rubbers dont sit in correctly as they can sometimes spring back out.

 

[Harley00]

Im not sure i dare get into this.... if i start using the stove for baking my wife will make me start baking cookies or some shit.

 

[Jet Labs]

Interesting but expensive. It would take me a lifetime to use 716 vials. I just wanna get like 1 or 2 hundred on Amazon and sterilize them all and then put them into vacuum sealed bags of about 20ish each. Same with the stoppers.

then just open a bag of sealed vials and ready to go.

If I sterilized vials and the stoppers and then put tape over the stoppers so they couldn’t come off, that would work as well would it not?

Another way to go is to buy sterile vials with crimp and rubber attached and just remove the aluminum crimp, crack open the rubber stopper to fill and then crimp with flip cap. Takes all of 20 seconds to remove crimping and sterile vials on amazon ain't overly expensive. Just giving you another option is all