how to bottle my first sour

My sour of darkness clone has been going to 10-11 months. I was thinking of bottling soon but not sure what type of bottles to use. Would 12oz regular bottles be able to hold the pressure of should I use thicker 22 oz bottles? Thanks

I used a mix of regular 12oz and larger 22/750 bottles. Make sure your fermentation is complete and carb under 3 volumes and I think you should be good to go.

bombers are not necessarily more capable of holding pressure than a 12 oz and all 12 oz bottles or not created equally:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/bottle-co2-volume-capacities-261268/

If you notice, the hardiest of the 12 oz bottles I weighed is Deschutes which is rated to 3 volumes brand new, so your average bottle is going to be a bit less, especially if it has been carbed before which weakens it, so I wouldn't carb a 12 oz past 2.5. I wish more folks were interested into looking at this and sent me information as it wouldn't be too hard to graph the bottle weights and rated pressure to get a curve that could predict what a particular bottle could handle.

Thanks for the info.

I routinely bottle at 3.5 volumes in standard 12 oz and 22oz that have been used many times.

TNGabe said:

I routinely bottle at 3.5 volumes in standard 12 oz and 22oz that have been used many times.

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I'm sure you can go higher, things aren't rated at their maximum potential, just a reliable safety point.