Bottle Drying Rack
When we got to the bottling phase of mead making we discovered it takes a lot of time and counter space to dry bottles after sanitizing and rinsing, so I made a rack for drying bottles.   We usually use 1 Liter bottles so 24 is suffucient to hold a full carboy.  

I had 4 pieces of wood approximately 1x2" and 24" long (left over from another project) and 1 Liter bottles are about 4" in diameter so each bar would hold 6 bottles and 4 bars would be 24 bottles (more than enough to hold 6 gals). These would be the bottle support bars.     I drilled a 1/2" hole every 4" starting 2" from the end then another 1/2" in the bottom 1" from each end.   Next I cut two 14" long bars and drilled a 1/2" hole every 4", these would be the base support under each end of the longer bottle bars.   I cut 1/2" dowels 3" long to go into the bottles necks.   The bottom bars each have four 1/2" dowels 2" long to go into the bottom of the bottle support bars.   After drilling the bottle support bars and base support bars for the 1/2" dowels, I rounded off the corners to allow for better draining.