I use nothing but 500ML PET 'long neck' style bottles. I love them, they don't break, capping requires no extra tools and they last forever.
In the past I've always used glass bottles, and still do, but I'm going plastic for the next batch because I'm going to be taking the majority of it to the river with me when I go camping. They don't allow glass on the river so, PLASTIC TO THE RESCUE! Like most things with homebrewing, its all about personal preference and what YOU want to do. Have fun!
You're going to be stirring up all that yeast if you plan on drinking out of the bottle, unless you plan on taking cups with you in your tube. But hell, if it's like any experience I've ever had floating the river, then you'll probably be too piss ass drunk to care about a little yeast.
I've got a Belgian Tripel that's been in 500ML PET for over 2 years now that disagrees with you.Plastic bottles are not a good barrier against oxygenation (at least most of them). Don't age beer too long in them.
I've got a Belgian Tripel that's been in 500ML PET for over 2 years now that disagrees with you.
As far as I know, any of the plastic bottles that are designed to hold carbonation are made of PET so they are perfectly fine for beer packaging.
After extensive test marketing, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, has introduced its fully recyclable plastic beer bottles to a national audience. The Miller plastic bottle also will become the first nationally distributed plastic carbonated beverage container with post-consumer recycled (PCR) material.
Millers is the first and only plastic beer bottle available for widespread retail distribution, and can be found in stores, bars and sports arenas.
The Miller plastic beer bottle made its debut in October 1998 in six major metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami. [See "Beer Bottles With a Bounce," Waste Age May 1999, page 82.]
"Plastic bottles represent one of the biggest breakthroughs in the beer world in years and have been met with an overwhelmingly positive response," says Bob Mikulay, Miller's senior vice president of marketing. "Our plastic beer bottle offers adult beer drinkers packaging flexibility and convenience that they've enjoyed from other beverages for many years."
The multi-layer design of the Miller plastic bottle was developed and produced by Continental PET Technologies, Florence, Ky., and meets reasonable recycling needs.
The plastic bottles currently are available in 16-ounce and 20-ounce packages of Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft and Icehouse.
Plastic fantastic beer bottles
The plastic beer bottle, says nanotechnology analyst Peter Conley, has long been the Holy Grail of the global beer industry. A switch from glass and aluminum to plastic would dramatically cut costs for the big players. The problem: plastic bottles have a bad habit of letting oxgyen molecules get through when sitting on the shelf. This is bad for beer. Very, very bad.
Enter AMCOL, the largest producer of kitty litter in the world. AMCOL has devised a "nanocomposite" that solves the problem, keeping oxygen molecules out and carbon dioxide molecules in. So be prepared, a new era of plastic beer bottles is upon us.
Whether this is progress or not depends on a complex mix of aesthetics, logistics, and perspectives on the proper role of technology in our lives. If you're Budweiser or Coors, anything that allows you to cut costs while maintaining the same horse-piss taste is considered progress. If you happen to savor the feel of an ice-cold glass bottle gripped firmly in your hand on a hot summer day, you might think otherwise. And if you're worried that the wholesale application of nanotechnological science to food product packaging raises a host of potential safety questions that will make previous concerns over genetically modified crops seem like preschooler whining, well, maybe you should just give up beer altogether and stick to fresh wheat-grass juice.
But whatever you think, don't imagine you can stop it. Plastic corks in wine bottles are already standard. Plastic beer bottles will not be denied.
Yeah the whole plastic= bad Oxygen barrier is another one of those myths that we have to get away from..It may have been true before the onset of Pet bottles, but it is not the case now...
Yeah the whole plastic= bad Oxygen barrier is another one of those myths that we have to get away from..It may have been true before the onset of Pet bottles, but it is not the case now...
I personally think that whole permeability issue was just a myth perpetuated by the glass industry myself to begin with...with no basis in fact....but even that argument is moot.
Noone seems ever to also remember that if plastic was SOOOO bad for anything then Beverage MFGr's wouldn't have invested multibazillion dollars on puting their products into it...
I think this rumor comes from the wine industry. I don't understand the chemistry of it so I don't know if that's relevant.
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Good luck and welcome to the obsession!Thanks for all your help. I'm off today to get the equipment for my first batch. Wish me luck!!
You're going to be stirring up all that yeast if you plan on drinking out of the bottle, unless you plan on taking cups with you in your tube. But hell, if it's like any experience I've ever had floating the river, then you'll probably be too piss ass drunk to care about a little yeast.
Oh no way. We just go to camp BY the river. I will be sitting beside it gulping down beers and getting ready to eat some hot brauts and kraut! No yeasties for me.
Oh man....Yeast infused homebrew, brauts and kraut...
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