Just wondering if anyone has come across this. I have bought my caps from various online sources and have had no problems. Generally I buy oxygen absorbing caps, and from the vendors I have used, they are generally gold colored caps.
Over the holiday I ran out of caps and had to bottle a batch, so I went to a semi-local homebrew place and bought a gross of oxygen absorbing caps which were silver in color. When I bottled, I had no end of trouble with these caps and my wing capper. Caps got stuck, unevenly crimped and the edges would get pried up sometimes when I removed the capper. Even when I removed the caps and tried re-capping, I had the same issue. I thought maybe it was ME, or the bottles or the capper, but I had a few of the old Gold colored caps and those went on as smoothly as ever without a problem.
Not sure if the silver caps are more cheaply made, or slightly different in size or what, but I fear that most of the bottles are not going to carbonate due to bad seals.
Anyone else see such a disparity in the quality of crown caps??
Over the holiday I ran out of caps and had to bottle a batch, so I went to a semi-local homebrew place and bought a gross of oxygen absorbing caps which were silver in color. When I bottled, I had no end of trouble with these caps and my wing capper. Caps got stuck, unevenly crimped and the edges would get pried up sometimes when I removed the capper. Even when I removed the caps and tried re-capping, I had the same issue. I thought maybe it was ME, or the bottles or the capper, but I had a few of the old Gold colored caps and those went on as smoothly as ever without a problem.
Not sure if the silver caps are more cheaply made, or slightly different in size or what, but I fear that most of the bottles are not going to carbonate due to bad seals.
Anyone else see such a disparity in the quality of crown caps??