Bottling in Mason Jars

Any reason not to use Mason Jars to bottle beer. Using new lids and threaded rings?

yes, one very good reason. They're not designed to handle the pressure you'll produce while carbing and you'll end up with flat beer

You can use them for storing yeast though.

Flat beer would be a good thing. I thought you might get shards of glass embedded in your ass! I bet they would hold pressure though, but bottles and caps are cheap, why bother?

cheezydemon said:

I bet they would hold pressure

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Mason jars are meant to hold vacuum not pressure.

Mason jars work great for storing hops in the freezer though.

Before I started home brewing I was drinking a lot of beer to keep the bottles and caps. I have about 100 twist off cap bottles; before I bottle I boil the caps and use a pair of vise grips and you'll almost need a bottle opener to get them off. I havn't had any problems yet and I'm on brew #8. Being a college student I was gonna drink the beer anyways but it seems like I got a bunch of bottles for free; a lot of my buddies contributed also.

Dude, bottle caps cost like a buck fifty for a gross. I mean, I was a poor college student too, but not that poor.

And twist-offs? Well, I could tell you why that's not a good idea, but you're a poor college student and I guess I can understand where you're coming from. Nobody on campus has the money to buy Sam Adams and even the bars don't sell more than a couple a night, so coming by pop tops can be difficult. You have my condolences.

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