Crown-capping supermarket bottles

[Brewbob]

I'm just getting ready to bottle my Festival Stag, I've been avidly collecting bottles and have a range of different shaped bottles from various breweries, thinking that I could cap them all no problem, but now I hear that some bottles can be a PITA. I have a two handled capper, and I've never crown-capped before any suggestions?

 

[graysalchemy]

Bench Capper is your best friend.

So are Black Sheep and Wadworth bottles.

You may as well chuck Nob Goblin bottles unless you have bench capper.

:thumb: :thumb:

 

[boozy_shoes]

Yes most can be capped. From experience the only ones that can't with a 2 handled crown capper are:

1. Twist off capped bottles - rare but there are a few usually american craft beers.
2. Wychwood / hobgoblin type bottles - the collar of the neck is deeper than most other bottles so leave well alone...

 

[Brewbob]

Thankfully I don't like Hobgoblin brews, so I've only got a couple of them, so they can go. Black Sheep also have easy labels, so I'll replace what I need with them. :

 

[graysalchemy]

I used a twin handle capper for nearly three years using black sheep /wadworth style bottles, without much fuss, its just a bench capper is easier and quicker. :thumb:

 

[PD]

yep me too, capped Gobhoblin bottles ok.

However I've just got rid of most of them to member tonybelloni.......... ( unawares of any problem Tony and was not the reason I gave them to you.)

 

[Clint Eastwood]

yep me too, capped Gobhoblin bottles ok.

However I've just got rid of most of them to member tonybelloni.......... ( unawares of any problem Tony and was not the reason I gave them to you.)

Next time you want me to take your junk to the tip at least warn me before I clean them. :rofl:
I use a twin handle but can normally just push them on/down without twisting the handles.
Being big does have some advantages but don't take me pot-holing or hide and seek.
I will imagine I'll get them on somehow. :thumb:

 

[PD]

he hee...they go on fine...I've capped those bottles in the past.

 

[winelight]

I've capped Hobgoblin too, but it is more effort, and I can't be bothered any more, since I get a plentiful supply of bottles from the bar, so I'm gradually filtering them out and any others that are a pain to cap, or have the writing printed onto the glass, etc. But if they're all you've got, they'll do.

 

[oldbloke]

I hated my two-handle capper, and when it snapped the neck off a bottle I switched to a cheap hammer-it-on one, which weirdly felt safer, and was frankly easier.
Then I got a bench capper and will cry and wear black for a month if it ever breaks

 

[bottler]

I go for brown cider bottles, magners and bulmers :thumb:

 

[Clint Eastwood]

I go for brown cider bottles, magners and bulmers :thumb:

How I miss those brown Olde English cider bottles especially when they were full. :thumb: