what bottles

[deadly]

Can normal twist top stubbies (not tallys) 365ml i think they are, be used as bottles for your home brew?

 

[Frisp]

If you can get a crown cap onto them I dont see why not. However they will be a right PITA to clean and sterilize and then fill. And you will lose a fair bit to sediment :cry: . If you want to bottle on the cheap blag magners or bulmers bottles off of your local pubs. they hold a full pint which when poured fills a pint pot nicely with a small head and leaves the sediment behind. and you will need to prep less of them.

 

[Wez]

Good advice there from the Frisp-ster! :thumb:

 

[dmrevis]

From all my types of bottles so far i've found the 500ml plastic coke/sprite bottles the best. 2lt coke bottles dont work very well they seem to let up all the sediment on opening.

 

[Bribie]

For a good sized and very pretty bottle the Bavaria 660ml green bottles from the Netherlands are a good bet. Also they have a proper crown seal lip, not a twist off. In Australia Bavaria is sold through Liquorland outlets but no doubt available in the UK and Europe. The beer itself is as good as mainstream Dutch Heineken, Amstel, etc and I've built up a collection of about fifty so far.

Good excuse to get down to the offy :lol:

 

[derbyowl]

From all my types of bottles so far i've found the 500ml plastic coke/sprite bottles the best. 2lt coke bottles dont work very well they seem to let up all the sediment on opening.

Never seen to have had this problem and I have always used 2ltr pop bottles ( 10 years ). I take it you decant your brew into a jug first if not that might be the problem

 

[bossdrums]

I've just bootled my first batch and used 500ml brown bottles, recycled from my recent new found love of real ale.....stuff like badgers first gold, hopping hare, fursty ferret, tanglefoot etc....also used a few clear bottles, that'll be the tanglefoot then, see below...

 

[Moley]

I've only just returned to winemaking and brewing after many years away (not that I necessarily knew what I was doing back then). Fortunately, I had kept around 40 pint bottles (thick with sawdust and 15 years' worth of cobwebs but they've cleaned up ok), and I am now blagging Bulmers/Magners bottles, or making withdrawals from my local bottle banks.

As I've yet to develop confidence in when it's safe to bottle and how much to prime, I agree with dmrevis that 500ml Coke/Pepsi bottles are useful. I would prefer to use mostly brown glass bottles, but a few plastics allow me to feel what pressure's building inside. So far I've been erring on the side of caution.

 

[Bradsbrew]

If you can get a crown cap onto them I dont see why not. However they will be a right PITA to clean and sterilize and then fill. And you will lose a fair bit to sediment :cry: . If you want to bottle on the cheap blag magners or bulmers bottles off of your local pubs. they hold a full pint which when poured fills a pint pot nicely with a small head and leaves the sediment behind. and you will need to prep less of them.

Have to agree on the PITA to clean but if you rack to a secondry fermenter and crash chill for a coupla days after fermentation has done its bit the sediment should not be an issue. :

Cheers Brad

 

[dmrevis]

From all my types of bottles so far i've found the 500ml plastic coke/sprite bottles the best. 2lt coke bottles dont work very well they seem to let up all the sediment on opening.

Never seen to have had this problem and I have always used 2ltr pop bottles ( 10 years ). I take it you decant your brew into a jug first if not that might be the problem

That was the plan but i dont even get a chance to decant before the sediment starts rising. The bubbles come from the bottle and take chunks of sediment with them. I tried with another bottle to let some CO2 out by very slightly unscrewing the cap, once all the initial gas had escaped i opened fully and still the sediment came up with the bubbles. This didnt happen with my other bottles.