Hi there,
I am returning to brewing beer after a few years, I used to bottle in 'Lemonade' type bottles which I had to ditch the last time I moved house. I have now inherited my father's beer bottles which are very thick glass, just under 2 and a half pint bottles with stone screw tops and really old. I want to make a brew but the bottles rubber seals are either missing or hard and past their best. I remember when I was a child my father making seals for his bottles from a bit of orange gas tubing like you find on Bunsen Burners, he sliced a bit off the tubing and put it in boiling water then put on the screwtop...I have tried this and it is a real struggle to get the rubber ring seal on the top. Has anybody got any ideas? Where the seal sits on the top has a diameter of 0.17 inches or 45mm. Should I go for silicon tubing of slightly smaller to make new seals? and where do I get the tubing? I would really like to use my father's bottles rather than buy new 'grolsch' type bottles or PET, they have sentimental value to me...does anyone have a solution?
I am returning to brewing beer after a few years, I used to bottle in 'Lemonade' type bottles which I had to ditch the last time I moved house. I have now inherited my father's beer bottles which are very thick glass, just under 2 and a half pint bottles with stone screw tops and really old. I want to make a brew but the bottles rubber seals are either missing or hard and past their best. I remember when I was a child my father making seals for his bottles from a bit of orange gas tubing like you find on Bunsen Burners, he sliced a bit off the tubing and put it in boiling water then put on the screwtop...I have tried this and it is a real struggle to get the rubber ring seal on the top. Has anybody got any ideas? Where the seal sits on the top has a diameter of 0.17 inches or 45mm. Should I go for silicon tubing of slightly smaller to make new seals? and where do I get the tubing? I would really like to use my father's bottles rather than buy new 'grolsch' type bottles or PET, they have sentimental value to me...does anyone have a solution?