Bottles not sealing right?

[spud]

I have now had maybe 5-6 bottles that I know about opened to have mold in them. Usually pints it seems but was at least 1 1/2 gallon. We bring it up to about 190* then botrle and put the lid on. Is there something we are not doing right we don't know about? I have just recently seen some pictures of people putting them on there side. Is this critical?

I had some issues early on with mold. It turned out to be the caps I was using. We switched from black caps to gold caps on our bottles and never had a problem again. I was told that once you tighten a cap you should not try to tighten it more minutes later. That could brake the seal. We fill the bottles almost to the top and that has worked well for us. I have never turned bottles on their side like others had. The only issue I'm having now is spinning thousands of caps on every month. We are still looking into a capper machine and hope to get one very soon. Also wondering how long was it before you saw mold in your bottles?

Spud

[Sugarmaker]

As others have mentioned. Check density first. Sugarhill jugs are pretty good now and we have not had any issues. We dont turn them on there sides any more. Cap seals from the heat.
Regards,
Chris

[cjf12]

Thanks for all the replys. I feel our density is pretty good but I do have a tendency to retighten when were done bottling. Gonna stop that and start laying on the side. I am also looking at getting a jacketed bottler. At the moment we are using a 20 gallon stock pot and those last couple gallons could be cooled off to much because we have to turn heat way down when it gets to low.