...or you could expose the container to the radiation from a low yield nuclear device...with all due respect, and while I enjoy listening to the agonal screams of creatively killed bacteria as much as the next fellow, I spend most of my life eating and drinking out of vessels that have been adequately cleansed with warm soapy water, and seem none the worse for wear. The extreme sterilization methods may pose more hazard to the user's health than do the microbes in the bottle.