Bottles

[BrotherMalice]

Not sure if this is the right forum but here go's

I am currently unable to get hold of enough glass bottles and cannot afford to but them at the moment, would these be OK to use for my first few brews?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320739097887? ... 97.c0.m619

I could get screw cap bottles but it just does not seem right & I am starting to move away from the idea of my Keg as I want to be able to take my beer places with me :)

Cheers
Colin

 

[RobWalker]

yeah, many people use them. they sell them cheap in big tesco's too, but those are the screw caps.

other than that you can use plastic bottles from pop. just adjust sugar quantity to suit the bottle size.

 

[BrotherMalice]

Cheers, may well order some in a few days when I get paid, will mean I have a reason to leave the beer alone till they arrive, getting a bit impatient now...

 

[calumscott]

I got six boxes of the coopers ones delivered from tesco direct for about 50 quid. They are destined to be filled with TC, pear cider and ginger beer because they should take a hell of a fizz!!

 

[BrotherMalice]

My first brew is IPA so thats what will be going in them, tempted to get 2 batches of 40 so I can do another brew to take to the weekender that I am going to in June :)

 

[calumscott]

In that case I would go with the coopers ones from tesco. They are brown which should help prevent off flavours from the light breaking down the aromatics in the hops and they also claim to have some cleverness in the plastic that prevents oxygen permeating through the wall of the bottle.

 

[BrotherMalice]

I was aining for the brown ones from the link I posted, seems more like beer if you have to use a bottle opener to get to the brew :)

The oxygen bit may be good though :)

Will have a look next time I get to the local big tescos.

Thanks for the advice :)

 

[oldstout]

I got sixteen bottles for £16 from Lidl the other week, bargain as they had already been filled by Sheperd Neame with a 4.2% brew as well...... :party: :party:

:rofl:

Offer is still on, 8 bottles for £8


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[BrotherMalice]

may have to pop up there soon then :)

Glass bottles seem to work out at about a pound each anyway, makes sense to get bottles that are already pressure tested...

 

[oldstout]

may have to pop up there soon then :)

Glass bottles seem to work out at about a pound each anyway, makes sense to get bottles that are already pressure tested...

Absolutely :thumb: :thumb: I was short of bottles at the time and had to get my eldest son and his mate to lend a hand to empty the contents of my newly acquired borrels :lol: :lol:

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[Shayler]

I use quite allot of the plastic bottles that take crown caps, bought 4 boxes of 40 at the time :), No problems with them.

 

[RokDok]

Have a chat with the Landlord of a busy pub and ask if you can go through their recycling bins on a Sunday morning. I collected 200 bottles on one trip doing this- all free.

 

[aneray]

Have a chat with the Landlord of a busy pub and ask if you can go through their recycling bins on a Sunday morning. I collected 200 bottles on one trip doing this- all free.

Top advice.

Most pubs have to pay to get rid of their empties. Pop into virtually any pub and mention that you are looking for bottles, most will help.

 

[BrotherMalice]

My local is a weatherspoons, may be worth asking in there as I sort of know a lot of the staff :)

I hadn't even occurred to me to do that!

 

[oz11]

If you're lucky they will sell a lot of magners, which are 568ml bottles (pint) and highly prized by many home brewers. Unfortunately mine sells hardly any.

 

[orlando]

Have a chat with the Landlord of a busy pub and ask if you can go through their recycling bins on a Sunday morning. I collected 200 bottles on one trip doing this- all free.

I can vouch for this idea too. Close to me is a Country Club, not tied to any particular brewery, and the steward there told me he had to dump every bottle in the recycling bins. He was only too glad for me to rock up and pick over his empty's. To my delight he had a load of Magner's bottles as well as not just 350 ml but 275 ml's, both useful for Barley Wine, Imperial strength and fruit type beers when you don't want a pint. 500ml are just wrong to me, not natural to an old fart brought up on pints. You can get new 500ml's from here http://www.ampulla.co.uk/GLASS-BEER-&-C ... S/c-1-204/ that work out around 65p delivered depending on quantity bought but free swings it for me

 

[Farmer-Dave]

Hmmmm, must be because Im a country boy but I got my first couple of dozen bottles from bottle banks :whistle: ..... easy to get sets of matching bottles if you're bothered (my assistant is a librarian with some complexes :party: but he does like to clean up as well)

Or are hunted and gathered bottles frowned upon ....?

 

[RokDok]

Weatherspoons recycling bins are great, most common bottle I found was Koppaberg followed by Magners. There are some interesting shaped bottles - Efes, The Elegant German Wheat beer bottles and supersize Italian beer bottles. If you don't mind green - there are loads of cider bottles, Brothers etc etc., and if your prepared to hide your beer in the dark you've got Neuky Brown bottles, Stella cider, not to mention the 33 cl fashion fizz bottles- Desperados, Sol, etc.etc.

The problem is, being a normal bloke the temptation is to start collecting in the hope that you can have a different set of bottles for each brew you make.

Tip- don't bother with the Crabbe Ginger Beer bottles- the labels are a nightmare to get off and when you do the glue is fused to the glass you'll have to use some toxic industrial solvent to get it off or as suggested elsewhere in the forum wrap the bottle is rags soaked in engine oil.

Nothing wrong with hunted and gathered bottles.

RD

 

[alanywiseman.]

I have collected all my bottles from my local recycling centre so far. The guys there don't have a problem with me doing it.

It is easier to use house hold veg oil to get the glue off of crabbies bottles :thumb:

 

[BrotherMalice]

Heading for Tesco's this weekend to pick up some bottles for the first brew but hoping to get glass bottles for future brews :)