best bottles to put my homebrew in?

[m0zzwigan]

I'm trying to keep my budget as low as possible for now, after my juice wine has finished fermenting and need to be bottled i was thinking of sterilising some milk bottles and storing it in the cupboard for 7 days before starting to consume.

questions i have:

will it be ok to do this?
should i just buy some glass bottles instead?
can i store it in the fridge?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I use plastic pop/water bottles as do a lot of members here, i have never heard of people using milk bottles, not sure if there is a reason why.

 

[musher]

I'm using Mrs M's tonic water bottles for my turbo cider. They look identical to a box of clear bottles I bought from BiggerJugs.

...and others have mentioned, I have also done TC in the Tesco apple juice cartons (plastic milk bottle type) it originated in.

 

[iceo]

i use pop bottles for my ales and cider and sometimes for my wine. have a word with friends and family to save you bottles

 

[Moley]

after my juice wine has finished fermenting and need to be bottled i was thinking of sterilising some milk bottles and storing it in the cupboard for 7 days before starting to consume.

Ah .... I think my question on your other topic has just been answered.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

after my juice wine has finished fermenting and need to be bottled i was thinking of sterilising some milk bottles and storing it in the cupboard for 7 days before starting to consume.

Ah .... I think my question on your other topic has just been answered.

Would that be the part about getting off your head? :lol:

 

[anthonyUK]

Just ask at a pub or collect some from the recycling boxes on collection day.

I don't think you should use milk bottles as they are returnable so not yours to reuse.

 

[m0zzwigan]

Just ask at a pub or collect some from the recycling boxes on collection day.

I don't think you should use milk bottles as they are returnable so not yours to reuse.

i mean the plastic milk bottles you get from the shop, like 4 pint ones. i lift weights and milk is apart of my diet, i drink it like water. so we go through about 8 bottles a week, i don't think there air tight that good, so i may use pop bottles :)

 

[Chrisk]

I definitely agree with using bottles from pubs. My local happily lets me raid their recycling boxes the day before collection. I now have an impressive collection of wine bottles, plus an array of beer/cider bottles all perfect for my brews.

 

[LeithR]

@ m0zzwigan,
If your plastic milk bottles are the same as the ones we get here then I wouldn't use them as they are not designed to hold pressurized liquids, they can split quite easily..

Go with Brown beer bottles if you can get your hands on them.

 

[wilsoa1111]

i wouldnt use the milk bottles as apart from not being particulary pressure tolerant they also are covered with lactobacillus and made of a rubbish plastic/mould which seems to hide the bugs really well, when starting out tried to use em as fermentors and had to give up, way too many infections despite bleaching em only ones that were drinkable were the ones with rasins (have alot of sulphites)

however the big tubs of protein powder do make rather good demijohns when cleaned up properly