Buying beer bottles

[Markus]

Just need to make sure they can be capped before you commit to a bottling session with them... I had a bad experience with half a dozen bottles of a certain brand beer recently.

I find you can cap anything, but some are so tricky it's probably not worth it. If you apply enough downward pressure on the levers it doesn't matter what shape the neck of the bottle is, but then you risk tipping the bottle over.

I checked, it was actually Kopparberg bottles. The caps eventually went on but not before a lot of fiddling abd pressure. Still not confident that they all went on 100%.

 

[winelight]

Much the same experience here with some bottles (not Kopparberg, not sure what it is, brown 500ml bottle with floral design in the glass round the shoulder). I will not use them again even though I think the caps are on OK, it's just too much trouble.

 

[alawlor66430]

I use koperberg with no problems, 90% of the bottles I have are koperberg

 

[Markus]

Are you using a bench capper? Mine is hand held. Also the bottles seem smaller than regular Koppaberg bottles. I think we got them on offer from a supermarket a while back.

 

[hoofy]

Just bottled a wherry and one of my Old Speckled Hen bottles smashed at the neck when I was putting the cap on. Made a mess and wasted a bottle of beer.

I honestly think that PET bottles are so much better than glass in so many ways.

 

[alawlor66430]

I use a hand capper and they're 500ml bottles from my local

 

[hoofy]

I use a hand capper and they're 500ml bottles from my local

I asked my local to save bottles for me and all they seem to have were the 568ml bottles of Newky Brown, Magners and Bulmers. No 500ml bottles of anything.

The 568ml are fine, but you can't get all the beer into a pint glass in one pour or the glass will overspill. I tend to pour about a quarter of a pint into my glass then when I've drank that I pour the rest in.

 

[winelight]

I tend to pour about a quarter of a pint into my glass then when I've drank that

I don't suppose that takes very long :)