Capping twist-cap bottles?

JerryHispano

Hi

I have a Coopers Canadian blonde from homebrewwest brewing since Sunday and I'm wondering what to do about bottles?

I have a few friends that drink the pils from Lidl that comes in 500ml brown twist-cap bottles (perlenbacher i think) and i was wondering if they can be capped?

I could probably get a hold of some miller twist-caps before bottling time too (I know they're not brown glass)

Or has anyone any other cost-efficient way to bottle beer?

Thanks.

covey09

You can buy 24 PET bottle for 50Cent a bottle with lids.

JerryHispano

Ya, The ox-bar ones are the alternative to glass bottles. They still add up to €20 to bottle the beer, a capper and caps would be cheaper and somewhat classier-looking too imo.

Would capping the twist-tops work at all?

Martyn1989

JerryHispano wrote: »

Would capping the twist-tops work at all?

A guy on here before was advised not to a while ago, I think because your beer will be putting the bottle under more pressure due to the priming sugar fermenting out.

Mashtun

No ya cant cap twist cap bottles with regular caps. I use Tyskie bottles they're pretty good. any commercial bottle thats not a twist cap can be recapped. Just need a capper and some caps.

JerryHispano

So its a no-go on the twist-tops. Thanks all