Bottles for Carbonating Tripel

[Horners]

Morning All

I intend to bottle my loose take on a Belgian Tripel on the coming weekend. Since taking up the brewing at the start of the year I have accumulated a lot of empty pint / 500ml bottles but figure I might regret packaging up in this size given that its going to come out around 8.5% so have been considering using 330ml bottles.

Questions as follows:

1. I have only accumulated a handful of smaller bottles as don't really drink anything that comes in amber bottles of this size so I am going to have to buy around 40. Anyone recommend a decent supplier at a decent price?

2. I intend to more highly carbonate than I normally do for my traditional English bitters - say 2.4 volumes of CO2. Do I need to be overly concerned about strength of bottles at this level of fizz or should anything I purchase be broadly fine.

3. I used the Safbrew BE-256 (Abbaye). I am assuming that this does not present any particular problems/ challenges re bottle conditioning?

Cheers in advance

Northern Horners

 

[MickDundee]

I recently bottled my Dubbel in 330ml bottles. I was ahead of the game though and had been collecting 330ml bottles for a few months in preparation. (If anyone’s local Wetherspoons sells Flensburger, it comes in a nice, thick, 330ml swingtop! Might be worth asking the bar staff for empties).

As long as you are not using 330ml ex-cheap lager bottles you should be fine. I use all sorts of bottles and regularly carb at 2.5 volumes. I’ve gone for nearer 3 with my Dubbel using the aforementioned swing tops, ex-Brewdog, ex-Sierra Nevada and ex-Westmalle (by far the thickest of the lot) bottles.

 

[Brewed_Force]

I have used Sen5es for amber bottles (http://www.sen5es.co.uk/) and they are nice people to deal with.

 

[Horners]

I recently bottled my Dubbel in 330ml bottles. I was ahead of the game though and had been collecting 330ml bottles for a few months in preparation. (If anyone’s local Wetherspoons sells Flensburger, it comes in a nice, thick, 330ml swingtop! Might be worth asking the bar staff for empties).

As long as you are not using 330ml ex-cheap lager bottles you should be fine. I use all sorts of bottles and regularly carb at 2.5 volumes. I’ve gone for nearer 3 with my Dubbel using the aforementioned swing tops, ex-Brewdog, ex-Sierra Nevada and ex-Westmalle (by far the thickest of the lot) bottles.

Thanks Mick exactly the insight I was hoping for - so for example some coors light bottles that someone consumed at a recent house party are probably best just f***in binned.

 

[chesters-mild]

I made a 3 grain trippel for New year last October - didn't taste much like a trippel in the end but tasted very good anyway.
used 2 carb drops per 500cc swing top bottle to carb up and that was fine after some 6 weeks in bottle. I've got 2 bottles left - I'll chill 1 and try it tonight
Cheers

 

[MickDundee]

Thanks Mick exactly the insight I was hoping for - so for example some coors light bottles that someone consumed at a recent house party are probably best just f***in binned.

Before opening preferably!

 

[-Bezza-]

Before opening preferably!

Perhaps they were wise and opted to pour the contents down the sink and just eat the bottle instead?

 

[MyQul]

I have 330ml bottles of various thicknesses and carb blonde ales to 2.5 volumes of C02 no problems