JeffersonJ

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So I was planning to bottle a batch this weekend and I thought I had plenty of bottles for it. However, I guess I gave away more beer than I thought I did and I am about 20 bottles short. Luckily, I've got a container of bottles I had planned to recycle that have been sitting outside since New Years.

Glass can obviously break from thermal shock, but do bottles experience thermal fatigue? As in, does the fact that they've been sitting outside for more than a month make them more prone to bottle bombs? It's also been an unusually cold winter in Birmingham, there was a week or so with temperatures in the teens and another week or so with highs in the 60s.

bja

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They're no different than the windows in your house. They'll be just fine.

JeffersonJ

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That's what I figured. But I was a bit freaked out because I broke a bottle last night from dropping it about an inch off the ground and it happened to have sat in the trunk of my car for a while.