Best bottles

[Dale86]

Hi all was was just wondering if any of you people could give me some advice please from your experience on which bottles to go for my largers and bitters

Thanks dale

 

[Kinleycat]

Hi all was was just wondering if any of you people could give me some advice please from your experience on which bottles to go for my largers and bitters

Thanks dale

Any bottle you can get for free firstly.
I have:
PET bottles 1 litre - good for checking clarity and secondary fermentation.
Glass clear screw tops - quick and easy I use these for none fizzy beers.
Glass clear crown capped - good for ciders and ginger beers.
Glass coloured crown capped - good for all fizzy beers.
Most of my fizzy brews go into Corny kegs and the remainder into the glass crown cap bottles.
Stouts and bitters into the king keg and glass screw tops
It's what floats your boat really.
What are you brewing?

 

[EskiBrew]

I've moved your post dale :thumb:

 

[joe1002]

Any bottle that has held fizzy drinks before (or is designed to do so). Brown is better for preventing hop skunking :thumb:

If you want glass bottles, bulmers & mangers bottles are good :thumb:

 

[Dale86]

Am just waiting to start the coopers Australian larger

 

[rpt]

Black Sheep and Timothy Taylor bottles are good because the labels come off really easy and they come with some very nice beer.

 

[Monte Cristo]

I ran out of bottles, so I put a box at the side of the local bottle bank with a note on saying I needed bottles for home brewing and got loads. I bought a bottle brush and gave them a really good clean and got rid of any suspect looking ones, most labels come off quite easy, Timothy Taylor being the easiest you only have to hint at water and the labels fall off! Try and avoid the ones with plastic labels - Saltaire brewery etc., they are a swine to get off and more trouble than they are worth.

 

[rpt]

The plastic labels themselves usually come off fairly easily but leave behind a residue. Some paper labels do this too (and are often worse than the plastic labels as they don't come off in one go). Sometimes the residue comes off after coating with vegetable oil but failing that WD40 works. I then give them a wash in the sink followed by going in the dishwasher.

 

[Dave1970]

Most glass 500ml beer bottles are good, lots of people have trouble with Wychwood ones being tricky to cap (unless you're using a bench capper).

Some that I know are good and have labels that fall off in the dishwasher...Bulmers, Magners (full pint bottles too!), Newcastle Brown, Fullers, Worthington White Shield.

Brown is best, clear are fine if you can keep 'em in the dark (I always put a couple from each brew in clear so I can monitor clearing and the yeast layer at the bottom of the bottle more easily), green I don't like for Ales..OK for lager or cider

 

[WelshPaul]

My favourites are San Miguel for the 330ml and 750ml bottles, and Asahi for the 500ml ones.
Both are pretty good lagers, are often on offer in various shops, are nice and dark with no embossing and the labels come off nice and easily.

 

[oldjiver]

I find bottles with as little "shoulder" as possible best. I dont use grolsch as the beer goes "GLUG" when passing the shoulder and can stir up the yeast. San Miguel and Amstel are good 33cl bottles. For 500cl the Tesco and Aldi cider ones are good and the contents are good value if you like cider.