Gallon bottles.

Yea If I get 5 of them I could bottle in much less time without buying all that expensive equipment used with kegging.

I'll give one jug away and drink 1 each weekend with a few buddies.

My question is, how do I cap it? SHould I use a cork?

Bad idea...I don't think those bottles walls are built to contain that much pressure.

What kind of 1 gallon bottles are we talking about? Milk Jugs? PET bottles? 1 Gallon glass jugs?

Anything other than pressure molded PET really wont be able to handle the pressure

I dont know about 1 gallon, but 1/4 gallon growlers will work, but they are expensive.

the 1 gallon glass jugs that burbon is usually in.

Adrian Abascal said:

the 1 gallon glass jugs that burbon is usually in.

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Unfortunately, I don't think those are going to cut it. They aren't designed to handle the pressures of carbonation.

Adrian Abascal said:

the 1 gallon glass jugs that burbon is usually in.

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Those equal .46 gallons each, so you'd need 10+

You could always get two Party Pigs.

Get the 2 liter flip-top bottles.

Learn to love REAL ale and stop worrying about carbonation. Last time I checked, bourbon isn't carbonated. So, the bottles will not take any pressure.

They are good for fermenting small batches of mead & such.

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Learn to love REAL ale and stop worrying about carbonation.

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Quit with your flatbeer propaganda!!!

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I like flat beer if it's malty and good. Almost like food.

Imagine a flat BMC? yuck.

Adrian Abascal said:

Yea If I get 5 of them I could bottle in much less time without buying all that expensive equipment used with kegging.

I'll give one jug away and drink 1 each weekend with a few buddies.

My question is, how do I cap it? SHould I use a cork?

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Adrian,

Go out and buy 2 cases of 1 qrt/liter PETs they are easy for bottling and cleaning is a snap. No scrubing whatsoever. Reuseable too. They are designed for beer.

If you want to go ghetto you can use 2 Liter Soda bottles. If you want it to look Euro-Trash try the green soda bottles. This is a cheap, you can try it out with virtually a zero $$ investment other than the soda.

You could also tote them around in milk crates.

I use the brown qrt bottle PETs. Sanitized with One-Step.

well Ihave 6 cases of bottles. I just didn't want to spend all that time bottling. I just want to bottle 4 or 5 jugs. This places sells glass 1 gallon jugs.

http://www.corradosmarket.com/catalog/p10.htm#Wine and Beer Bottles

Don't go with the jugs! I tried growlers and got big bombs out of them. Glass and hombrew all over your floor is a sad site. Even worse when you cut your self cleaning up the mess...

Adrian Abascal said:

well Ihave 6 cases of bottles. I just didn't want to spend all that time bottling. I just want to bottle 4 or 5 jugs. This places sells glass 1 gallon jugs.

http://www.corradosmarket.com/catalog/p10.htm#Wine and Beer Bottles

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I know what you mean, the 1 quart bottles with screw on lids are super easy, and quick as far as bottling goes. 4 bottles per gallon not much work at all.