Broken bottles

I seem to have an unusually high amount of broken bottles this last batch. When I pry the cap off the top of the bottle breaks. About 4 or 5 bottles out of almost 2 cases.

Wonder if I was a little rough with the capper?

are these new bottles? or bottles you have used before?

i have found that some bottles are just crap, and the first time i used them they just break on me. if you have a few new bottles in your rotation (new empties from a friend or something) that could be all it is.

Were they originally twist offs ? You can cap twist off with regular caps but the twist off bottle are much thinner at the neck opening . I have broken bottles before on commercial brews when I didn't realize they we twist off and used an opener.

bmbox12 said:

I seem to have an unusually high amount of broken bottles this last batch. When I pry the cap off the top of the bottle breaks. About 4 or 5 bottles out of almost 2 cases.

Wonder if I was a little rough with the capper?

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Are you talking about the whole bottle shattering or the glass lip under the cap shearing off?

I had an issue with the latter due to the cheapo wall mounted bottle opener I bought, after a few weeks of use it started to snap the very tip of the bottle off.

Hey thanks for getting back.
They are used bottles, some more than a couple times.
Not twist offs, I don't reuse them.

They are shearing off right under the cap, when I am trying to pry the cap off.

bmbox12 said:

Hey thanks for getting back.
They are used bottles, some more than a couple times.
Not twist offs, I don't reuse them.

They are shearing off right under the cap, when I am trying to pry the cap off.

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I just got one in one of my batches, and I have had a couple more here or there. I do think that bottles, especially newer bottles, probably do wear out after a few uses, and of course that would more than likely be the weak point.

I've noticed there is a large variance in bottle thickness and bottle quality, between breweries, and also the first two cases I got with my kit are really thin seaming and lighter in color than the ones I accumulated after.

On the other hand I have three cases of pints from the 70's in thick cardboard boxes.



And these, despite the wear marks from the bottling line are nearly indestructible.

Were they by any chance recycled fat tire bottles. I had 2 out of 6 break in my last batch and someone in another thread had several break recently as well.