Where to buy punted Heavyweight Champagne bottles?

[escorto]

Does anyone know where to buy punted 750ml heavyweight champagne bottles?

Brick packaging sells them in full pallets only. The other online sources I've seen so far only have the flat bottom lightweight champagne bottles, or burgundy bottles.


I have a Saison I want to package up real special like for NHC!

 

[Nateo]

IIRC the flat bottom champagne bottles are good up to about 5 volumes. The punted ones will go to 7.

These are the ones you can buy everywhere: http://www.waterloocontainer.com/catalog/product/143/champagne-750-ml-crown/

5 volumes is a ton of carbonation. Not really sure you'd want to go over that. Anyway, the champagne bottles are almost 12 inches tall, so they won't accept them at the NHC.

From the NHC rules: Corked bottles and odd-shaped bottles are acceptable as long as they can fit in a standard case box slot (2.75 inches L x 2.75 in W x 9 in H; 7 cm x 7 cm x 22.9 cm).
Bottles not meeting the above requirements will be disqualified.

 

[Nateo]

If you can find the Piraat ales, those come in pretty hefty little bottles (285g). You'd probably be fine going up to 4 or 4.5 in those. They take "regular" crowns too. There are some other Belgian style bottles that will take a lot of carbonation too, but I'm not sure any will go over 5 volumes. I have some bottles from Boulevard that held 3.5 volumes and weighed 250g. You could probably go to 4 volumes in those.

 

[escorto]

Its good to know the flat bottom champagne bottles should work for my 3.2 volumes.

Good catch on the NHC bottle restrictions! I'll take another look at my packaging options for this part of the project, maybe some 375ml bottles.