[thcipriani]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the old classroom standard heat sterilization with an oven method as outlined here:

http://www.lubilosa.org/Engl03a.PDF

as well as in other, likely more appropriate, sources.

I've heard it makes bottles more fragile, although I've never experienced it.

Clean your bottles with soap and water, final rinse with distilled water, cover opening with tin foil - bake at 350F for 2 hours - that's sterile. Plus it's cheaper than star san (if you've never taken intro econ and learned about opportunity cost).

Bonus points for pressure canning starter wort and antiseptically pouring into sterile e-flask - my yeast don't out-compete because they've never had to.

[Steve]

My wife and I have an understanding at dish washing time. I fill, swirl, and rinse out the beer bottle(s) leaving some soapy water in the bottom to help break up any stuck yeast on the bottom. We leave them on the counter overnight. The next day the bottle(s) are rinsed again and set to drain with the other dishes.  I take them to the cellar and cover the bottles with an old towel. Rarely do I have to do any scrubbing with a brush or use the jet washer. Bottles that sat out and didn't get washed after a party are the ones that need more attention

When I'm ready to bottle, I pump some warm water through the bottles to flush out any dust or spiders using the Vinator® and place them on the bottle tree and discard the used water. I've prepped my priming solution beforehand and racked   I then fill the Vinator bowl with BTF Iodophor solution. Star San is too sudsy for the Vinator and the BTF Iodophor dries very quickly compared to Star San. Tossing the bottle caps into the Vinator as well. Two pumps on the Vinator into the bottle and onto the bottle tree, loading from the top to bottom. By the time I'm done with that, the first sanitized bottles on top are dry.  I fill six bottles and cap the six at a time.

[narvin]

1/8 tsp or so of PBW per bottle and some hot water will take care of the cleaning.  I'd sanitize right before bottling... you can siphon sanitizer out of your bottling bucket into your bottles, or just throw all of the bottles in the bucket (if you are sure the outsides are relatively clean).