Beezy
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I don't see how Guiness is the easiest when you have to pry out the ball. If you oxy your bottles there isn't a label out there that is hard to clean off. I like Guiness in the can anyway.
Shock top raspberry wheat is NOT pry off, it twists off.... Looking at one now.
You do realize that the quote you are referring to is 1.5 years old, don't you? Back then, they were all pry off. AB, like many companies, changes how they do things. EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure the Shock Top raspberry wheat was even available then.
Yeh, like Michelob Amber Bock and Killians both were pop offs and now twisters.
I don't see how Guiness is the easiest when you have to pry out the ball. If you oxy your bottles there isn't a label out there that is hard to clean off. I like Guiness in the can anyway.
I've noticed some pry top bottles don't work with my "wing" capper. They're mostly Belgian imports that have a really tall and shallow crown. It just won't quite go all the way because the mouth of the jaws, which should sit below the shoulder of the crown, actually sit on the bottom of the crown and can't quite fully close.
They may work fine with a bench capper, but I have to check twice.
I looked at quite a few in the liquor store and couldn't see anything under the cap or any kind of twist off indicator. Maybe they where all pry off tops. I didn't want to spend $10.00 on a six pack and get the wrong bottles.
Hobgoblin bottles have the same problem, due to the bulb underneath the crown.
Hobgoblin bottles have the same problem, due to the bulb underneath the crown.
Zixxer10R said:It would be a safe bet that a $10 six pack is gonna be pry-off. I've yet to find a craft beer with twisties besides SN for that year mentioned above you. That's assuming commercial beers don't start charging out the yin-yang for their stuff though. If that happens then price point won't be a good factor to judge by.
If it's a Red Barron/Emily capper, switching the metal inserts that hold on to the bottle neck from the 26 mm side to the 29 mm side might help.
klyph said:Anyone else starting to drink a lot more Red Hook now that the bottles don't have any stampings in the glass? I'm stocking up, I really like the new bottle design.
New Castle are pop tops...
But, don't buy a sixer. They are a bit skunky. A 12 pack SHOULD be better, because they are better shielded from UV.
New Castle is pretty darn tasty out of the mini-keg, however
I thought I remember Shock Top being twist off....but that was last summer. Pretty sure they were twist offs in the store.
Is Michelob Amber Bock pop top? It is near half the price of all of the craft beers, and I am still building a homebrew supply...
Haven't had their regular beers but a Bourbon County bottle cracked from the capper the last time I tried to use it.Goose island has pop tops
Not necessarily for Sierra Nevada... I have an empty 6 pack of SN pale ale... Twist off. there are two others however that I just thought of: Michelob craft beer series and Bells.
For the record....Sierra Neveda went to twist off for about a year but then converted back to pop tops. Most micro and regionals will have pop tops while many commercial beers will have the twist offs. I did notice that locally Blue Point uses twist off.
So are twist tops no good for re-purposing then?
I searched for this and decided to start a thread to make it an easier search. I have compiled some beer and beer companies that use pop top bottles for those of us that like to buy beer and then use the bottles.
I myself can not tell if the bottle is a twist off or screw off with the cap on, so I would like everyone add to the list I have complied from searching through all these threads.
Here's what I have. Please correct me if I have any incorrect info.
Here goes:
Guiness
Sam Adams
Red Hook
Celis
Schalafly
Big Sky
Saranac
Warsteiner
Boulder beer
Sierra Nevada beer
New Belgium
Fat Tire
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