A big bottling ballsup

[The Ginger Ninja]

Just started bottling my new beer and............

Added priming sugar, filled with yummy Belgium ale, so far so good........................ shame the bottles i used don't bloody work with my caps or capping tool! 50 bottles filled with beer and primed and no way of capping them. Tried ramming corks in the bottles, thought about using clingfilm! I feel like a right prat.

So a warning to all those brewers out there who bottle: make sure the caps fit! (or use swing top bottles....)

 

[BigYin]

oops! Run to the nearest HB shop tomorrow, invest in a keg, sanitise it, and dump all the beer into it (well, when I say dump, I mean pour in carefully :whistle: )

 

[commsbiff]

What bottles are you using, and what caps / capper do you have?

 

[abeyptfc]

sorry to hear that man, to be honest I would stick it back in a sanitised fv and re bottle once you get caps that fit! it saves wasting all that beer. someone more experienced will come along and say im talking absolute bull shecht!

 

[commsbiff]

sorry to hear that man, to be honest I would stick it back in a sanitised fv and re bottle once you get caps that fit! it saves wasting all that beer. someone more experienced will come along and say im talking absolute bull shecht!

That's exactly what I would do right away :thumb:

 

[The Ginger Ninja]

What bottles are you using, and what caps / capper do you have?

I have the normal standard capper and caps its just that the bottles i had collected for this brew were:

the capper doesnt seem able to grip on the fat rounded neck so it wont get any sqeezability on the caps. (hope that makes sense)

I ended up going on a sanitation mission and was able to get another 40 bottles clean and managed to save a fair bit. Just not the relaxed bottling im used too!


(first time adding a picture and quoting so hope it works!)

 

[commsbiff]

:hmm: I wonder if a bench capper would work on those - there's an excuse to buy one and see :grin:

 

[The Ginger Ninja]

not allowed to spend any more money on brewing for a while :cry: :cry: :cry:

 

[Dieseljockey]

Sorry ... your trying to use Wychwood brewery bottles...They have a longer neck...no go...I've got an old capper that just holds on and will do the job...best advise as all ready been given...back into the FV or into a keg.. :thumb:

 

[The Ginger Ninja]

i was so happy that i had saved enough for a full brew............ woe is me

 

[robsan77]

yep, those bottles notoriously dont work with the standard cappers. A decent bench capper will do them so I believe.

you may have to make an emergency run to the supermarket and buy a load more beer : or go to a few local pubs and see if they have any old bulmers or magners bottles. They do the job :thumb:

It wont hurt going back into secondary for a while anyway.

 

[graysalchemy]

I pointed this out in another post yesterday but I was poo pooed by someone who said they were OK I hope the other poster reads this thread before they start bottling.

The consensus seems to be they are troublesome unless you have a bench capper. some people suggest putting the capper on the floor to operate, but IMHO the shape of the bottle doesn't fit the capper.

Could you get any 2l pop bottles as a stop gap? Go rummaging in the bottle bank. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Good Luck

 

[robsan77]

I pointed this out in another post yesterday but I was poo pooed by someone who said they were OK I hope the other poster reads this thread before they start bottling.

The consensus seems to be they are troublesome unless you have a bench capper. some people suggest putting the capper on the floor to operate, but IMHO the shape of the bottle doesn't fit the capper.

Could you get any 2l pop bottles as a stop gap? Go rummaging in the bottle bank. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Good Luck

I once bought some 2ltr bottles of cheap lemonade and poured it down the sink. Only cost about 20p or so. :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

Well done :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Stone Cold]

a knock on capper and mallet ? £4

 

[Grumpy Jack]

Sorry to hear of your disaster...

Wychwood have been notoriously difficult for me too, it's the long kneck and the fact that the lip on the bottle which the capper grips is too far down it, so it ends up coming all the way back up to the top of the bottle and then slides off... bench cappers work, but to be honest, I just got rid of all my Wychwood bottles over a period of time and replaced them. Shame, as if I have to buy beer it's very often Wychwood...

 

[MikeB]

Don't know if the Goliath bottles are any different, but my last bottled brew included a few Hobgoblin ones and they were fine.

Must admit that my bottle of choice is the Bulmers cider one - they're plain (as in no embossed writing) and exactly the right size and shape. My local has been keeping them for me, bless 'em, and I've got stacks :)