40 oz for bottling?

chromedome · 10-23-2008, 02:29 PM

can I safely use 40 oz bottles with the screw on caps to bottle beer?

PWalk · 10-23-2008, 02:34 PM

I guess you could but just for safety's sake I would cork each bottle up and cover it with some wax.

s3n8 · 10-23-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by PWalk

I guess you could but just for safety's sake I would cork each bottle up and cover it with some wax.

um... why? They are made to handle carbonated beverages.

I bottle some from each batch in liter fliptops. Big bottles are great, especially if you like to have friends over but hate cleaning up a million empty bottles.

PWalk · 10-23-2008, 02:44 PM

More to protect the beer from the outside world than for breakage.

**mmb** · 10-23-2008, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by chromedome

can I safely use 40 oz bottles with the screw on caps to bottle beer?

If you have a bench capper, sure. A wing capper doesn't cap screw tops that well.

Kilgore_Trout · 10-23-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by mmb

If you have a bench capper, sure. A wing capper doesn't cap screw tops that well.

Depends on the 40. If it has a beer bottle type screw cap, then yes. If it has the "soda" type metal screw cap, then no. In the second case though, you can reuse the cap a few times.

s3n8 · 10-23-2008, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mmb

If you have a bench capper, sure. A wing capper doesn't cap screw tops that well.

Just to be clear, I think the OP was asking about the soda-style screw on caps. I could be wrong, but I would not try to recap those with a crown style cap. My father in law bottles in mr beer & soda bottles and reuses the caps a few times. There are replacements available.

Hagen · 10-23-2008, 03:47 PM

The only drawback I can see is that those bottles don't have a shoulder like longnecks do. It'll be hard to keep from pouring the yeast from priming into the glass.

chromedome · 10-23-2008, 07:49 PM

I'm actually talking about reusing the screw on cap. Does anyone know if they will hold the pressure and reseal well after the seal has been broken?

Dextersmom · 10-23-2008, 07:52 PM

i don't know how that will work but if you're doing it just for sheer volume, I have a bunch of 50 oz grolsch bottles that i end up filling. One for each batch. That bottle is the first (or last depending on style) bottle I open. so if you're looking just to store volume and not have to fuss around with 12oz bottles maybe you'd wanna look into that?