Bottle Cleaning Attempt 1

So here are some pictures an videos from my first attempt to clean beer bottles. I have changed my approach but this is where I started and this what I learned:

1. Clean your bottles as soon as you can. If anything dries on, it will require soaking and may require scrubbing. 
2. Use PBW, rather than a general Oxy cleaner, as a soak for no more than 30 mins. Use general Oxy cleaners are you own peril. My career scrubbing Oxy residue out of bottles was a short one but seemed to last forever.
3. Flush the inside with water. For this I use The Blast - Bottle Washer which is great. 
4. Stand upside-down to dry. For this I use a Bottle Drainer.  
5. Once clean use aluminum foil to cap them to keep dust etc out. You can then either bake them to sterilize them for storage and use as required, remove cap and put in a Starsan soak on bottling day.

Attempt 1 pictures

I chose a 'Really Useful Box' as a washing up bowl. Added some Oxy cleaner and added the bottles.

As you can see some labels come off on their own.

Regardless of how easy labels come off, the glue residues need to be scrubbed with a green cleaning pad.

Some labels took a lot of work to remove.

There was one type that were a water-proof plastic type that pulled off in one go.

If you look closely you can see the bubbles rising out of the bottles as the oxygen gets to work.

My advice is don't leave this soaking for more than 30 mins then get them flushed out as soon as you can.