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Bottles

  • 02-11-2006 11:58am
    #1
    Ceddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    Hi all,

    I am planning to bottle the first brew that I have done in nearly 10 years and was wondering where you source your bottles from ?

    I have toyed with the idea of plastic but would much prefer glass.

    I suppose its a matter of keeping all your old stout/ale/beer bottles and using these.

    What size do people normally bottle, is it 275 or 550 bottles ?

    I came across an offie in Belfast lately that sells Grolsh 450ml bottles at £5 for 4 of them. These come with the re-sealable caps which are really handy. Anyone used these and had any issues ?

    Cheers.
    Ceddy.


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  • #2
    bigears
    Closed Accounts Posts: 281 ✭✭bigears


    500ml type brown bottles are ideal. Thicker bottles are better such as those used by German beers or British ales. I've used Grolsch style bottles (Flensburger) and they work well. Apparently the rubber washers need to be replaced eventually but some of the online HB shops sell packets of them. I've noticed some of the 'Real Ale' bottles are harder to cap than others, especially the 'squat' bottles. The German bottles are easiest to cap in my experience.


  • #3
    guildofevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭guildofevil


    I also used Flensburger bottles, before switching to Cornelius kegs. They are very handy and I have only ever had a single rubber seal become damaged. I noticed it was beginning to split at bottling time and replaced it with one I kept from another bottle, which I had broken some weeks earlier.

    I have used 500ml German and English ale beer bottles with no trouble, but have discovered that Batemans XXXB (an English ale) bottles do not like my crown capper. Twist off cap bottles are also a bad idea.

    When I started brewing, about fifteen years ago, I used 33cl bottles, which I dug out of a bottle bin, behind a hotel. They worked fine, but it was a lot of bottles to wash, sani and rinse every batch.


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