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Yes, we do get Milton in New Zealand. I used to use it to sterilise my babies' bottles etc when they were little. It's easy to buy off the shelf at the supermarket :icon_smile: Hopefully it's just a once-off problem and the rest of the batch won't have the smell! Excellent! Thanks for that :icon_smi...

Ahhh, thanks for that! I just washed them using water (no chemicals at all), so it is probably residue from the commercially made ginger beer that was previously in the bottles. That would explain why this batch has the smell, but the earlier batch didn't. What is a safe chemical (or whatever) to st...

I've have been diligently feeding my ginger beer bug for a while now and have brewed and bottled four batches of ginger beer. For the first batch, I used brown plastic bottles purchased from the brewing shop. I foolishly left it in a cardboard box on the kitchen table (in the heat of summer) and wok...

:wave: I live in the Wairarapa, which is about an hour north of Wellington, New Zealand's capital city! I am a single parent with two children, the eldest is 18 and has just gone off to the other end of the country to study science and commerce at University, and my youngest will be six next week! I...