fineexampl

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OP i think i have your solution if you can't find the right bottles.

Use the regular 12oz pop tops, but go to your local baby sh** dealer and pick up a bunch of rubber nipples and strap them on top over your caps and than get your girl to wrap some ribbons on the necks. You won't pay so much, you know the bottles can handle the pressure, and you can not sweat the details too hard. The clear champagne bottles Baron ken posted are cool and would work, but clear glass doesn't age so well, right? Women are sentimental and like to keep sh** and if they see a cute lil bottle of beer they are likely to want to keep one and not drink it.

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Baron ken

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Sounds perfect then. If they'll never be drank, the clear will be nice to show off that it is beer inside. And he said something fast so aging in clear bottles shouldn't be a problem.

jigidyjim

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Awesome. I think I might do a 5 gal batch of the centennial blond, and put some in those small bottles... Only question is whether or not to use blueberry flavoring in the blond. Hmmm...

Thanks everyone!

jigidyjim

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Actually - I wonder if filling the half champagne bottles will be a pain. I'm guessing that leaving the normal amount of head room from my filling wand would be a bad thing, and I'd want to leave less?

There was another thread on here somewhere that 22oz don't carb as well due to the beer/air ratio... so would that mean the 6oz bottles would over carb because of the same ratio? Maybe I couldn't use a wand when filling them.

Ugh. Maybe just regular 12's is the way to go.

fineexampl

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I prefer to bottle in 22oz bottles. That's not true, IME.

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rwinzing

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I just did a cream ale from Northern Brewer. Was ready in 5 weeks.

It is a great BBQ beer.

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OLB

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They sell Heineken in 7oz bottles in my area. You might want to give that a try. I have never bottled in Heineken bottles, so I don't know if they work ok with a wing capper.

eppo

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i've gotten the 6.3 oz bottles in green at my LHBS a while back, took the same cap as the 12/22oz beer bottles.

jigidyjim

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Bingo - i finally figured out what to search for after reading this and found this:

http://www.homebrewit.com/aisle/2060

Awesome. I think I'll give it a shot, bottle 24 of these minis then the rest regular 12 oz bottles. Ugh, bottling day will suck!

Hmmm... here's a question - people will be drinking straight out the bottle probably. Think the yeast will make people have stomach problems? I think I'm gunna do the centennial blond with the nottingham... I've never actually used dry yeast before, so dunno if it is any different in terms of drinkability or not.

KevinW

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Good point Yuri, didn't think about that!
Also, can you imagine if some got left over and a couple of months after the baby arrives the SWMBO in-law goes to the cupboard to get a jar of food! Try to explain that one

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