Magnum (1.5L) bottles

[Will Smith]

Anyone have any experience bottling beer into magnum champagne bottles, like 1,5L. I have an idea of using them.
I live in denmark but ordering bottles from anywhere in europe should be fine with me if anyone knows anywhere

 

[Steveruch]

Anyone have any experience bottling beer into magnum champagne bottles, like 1,5L. I have an idea of using them.
I live in denmark but ordering bottles from anywhere in europe should be fine with me if anyone knows anywhere

If you're okay with the size, go for it.

 

[snowtiger1987]

I do it all the time from 1.5L to 9L. 1.5L is just a bigger bottle. From 3L to 9L you need a bigger cage and a bigger cork though. I usually make my cages from wire and my LHBS carries the larger corks.

 

[Will Smith]

I do it all the time from 1.5L to 9L. 1.5L is just a bigger bottle. From 3L to 9L you need a bigger cage and a bigger cork though. I usually make my cages from wire and my LHBS carries the larger corks.

where do you sauce your bottles? im struggling as my LHBS only stocks up to 750ml

 

[snowtiger1987]

I don't normally sauce the bottles I pick up the 1.5L from beer parties where people bring various commercial beers in them. Anchor X-Mas comes out with them every year. For the bigger ones I have just collected them over the years the same way - attend parties where people are opening them and then ask them for the bottles. Apparently commercial 6L bottles are illegal in the US for some reason, but I still have one.

You could probably get some from a wine festival as these big bottles are much more common in that industry.

They also have names:

A “magnum” is 1.5 liters, or the equivalent of two bottles, and if you double that, you’d have a “double magnum,” at 3 liters. (A 3-liter bottle is also known as a “jeroboam” in Champagne and Burgundy, but in Bordeaux, a jeroboam is 4.5 liters.)

Things get bigger faster after that: a 6-liter bottle is called either an “imperial” or a “methuselah,” a “salmanazar” holds 9 liters (as much wine as a full case of standard bottles), a “balthazar” holds 12 liters and a “nebuchadnezzar” holds 15 liters.