Bottling

[lewiley36]

I just started brewing my first batch, a hard apple cider with brown sugar and Irish ale yeast, a friend of mine suggested using mason jars for bottling, they only cost like $5 a case and could make a cool serving/drinking container. Not to mention easy storage and various sizes. Has anyone tried this? Any feed back would be great!

 

[nicklepickles]

do not use mason jars, they are only made for holding vacuums (for canning), not pressure. If you do, you will get shards of glass flying everywhere. Not fun!

 

[lewiley36]

Thanks nicklepickles, so if I do an in carbonated it would be ok just no carbonated in mason jars !?

 

[unionrdr]

Non-carbonated, probably. depends on how much co2 is already in it.

 

[stevehardt]

I wouldn't mess with sealed mason jars. Not built for the pressure.