Reusing Biere D’or bottles

[mickybee]

Afternoon All,
Quick question. My Xmas beer is nearly ready to be bottled and with it looking at being about 10% I don’t really want to put it into 500ml bottles and I’d rather not keg it as I’d like to give some bottles out. I was wondering if anybody had ever reused the cheap Biere d’or bottles that are 250ml before? My worry is that I’ll try to cap a new crown on the bottle and it’ll just shatter.
So anyone had any experience reusing these bottles before?
Many thanks in advance.

 

[Twostage]

What makes you think it will shatter ? Its already been capped.

Why don't you try capping an empty ?

 

[MashBag]

What he said

Is your capping very aggressive then?

 

[mickybee]

Not that I’m aware of. I have a standard twin lever crown capper. I do remember a few years back trying to reuse a hobgoblin bottle though and it cracked on the neck as I was capping. Maybe more of an issue with the bottles with a thinner longer neck. Thanks for your replies.