Bottling beer

Can I bottle beer in mason jars? I sure hope so lol. It's ready to be bottled

 

No! They will not stand up to carbonation pressure. You'll be picking glass out of your face, seriously.

 

LOL. Great idea. No glassware needed, just pop the top and drink!

 

^^This.

 

Very. Bad. Idea. Mason jars are not designed for positive pressure.

 

Even if your beer is ready to be bottled, it can probably hold off for a week or two as you and your friends plow through 54 bottles of some decent craft beer with non-screw top caps!

 

Or spend $20 at your LHBS for 2 cases of new bottles. Better than filling a bunch of quart-size bottle bombs.

 

or go to a local recycling depot.

 

Seriously, listen, don't.

 

I'd say by his other thread I just read it's too late

 

Lol didn't feel like waiting. It's all screwed up I think so I'll just loosen the lids and dump them tomorrow

 

After asking for help you go against what everyone said and did it anyways? Why did you even bother asking?

 

or transfer back into a bucket and let the priming sugar ferment out. get some bottles and try again. might be ruined but at this point you've only got another dose of priming sugar to loose...

 

By looking at the beer in the jars you should have waited another week anyways. Was the beer 8 days old? Patience is needed for brewing. It's hard at first but you learn to live with it or you bleed out opening a jar of beer.

 

Dam it. Well next time I'll know. And I'll get some actual bottles lol

 

I've done it before just to see what would happen...it worked, but not as well as I hoped. Mason jars are made to hold vacuum, not pressure. In other words as the vacuum builds, the lid gets pulled on. As the pressure builds, it pushes the lid out. That translates to an undercarbed beverage. I do, however, use mason jars for transport/gifts of already carbonated beer.

In the end I don't see a whole lot of danger in it more than I do an underwhelming beer.