[glitterbug]

I have chlorine\chloramine in my tap water and I bottle. I normally clean with bbrite, rinse with tap water, and then sanitize with star san. Could the rinse water be affecting my beer? Should I be rinsing ro or spring water?

[hopfenundmalz]

I rinse with hot tap water. Then the final step is the Star San, which is made with RO water.

[Jimmy K]

It won't hurt to rinse with RO/spring or make your star san with it (the star san will last longer too). But unless you have a LOT of chlorine, I doubt enough remains in the bottle assuming they're well drained.

[Joe Sr.]

I've never worried about a quick rinse with tap water.  Sometimes I'm going straight from idophor to bottling and I give the bottles a quick rinse on the bottle washer.  I've never noticed an issue.

I'm more concerned about an over concentration of idophor in the bottle than I am a little bit of tap water.

[euge]

I rinse (clean) mine really well once they have been emptied and store upside down so that dust doesn't fall in. Come bottling day they go into the dishwasher straight out of storage. Mine has a sanitization cycle. I bottle with the door down to catch drips and just pull bottles out as I fill them... So no probs with sanitizer remaining in the bottles.

If a bottle is visibly gunked up and I just can't seem to get it clean without much effort then it goes in the trash. Plenty more soldiers ready to step in!