STURDY Bottles

I've noticed that most of the generic, long neck amber 12 oz. crown cap bottles I've seen weight in around 7 ounces / 200 grams per bottle. However, I've read that some commercial 12 oz. bottles (like Stone bottles) are much thicker / heavier, weighing in around 8 ounces (~225 grams) or 9 ounces each (~250 grams).

Question: Does anyone know where I can find similarly heavy (225-250 gram) 12 oz. long neck amber crown cap bottles, WITHOUT having to clean / de-label / re-purpose commercial bottles?

 

Those aren't really what I'm looking for. I want standard American longnecks, 12 oz / 355ml volume, just with thicker / stronger glass.

 

Some research is required... Buy a variety of beer, drink beer, weight bottles...

Seriously, you may want to search commercial suppliers, they will likely provide the thickness of the glass or the weight.

 

I never did. I just ended up buying a bunch of standard, 12 oz crown cap bottles.

 

This weekend I was enjoying a few bottles of Erdinger Weissbier and noticed that the empty bottles seemed really heavy compared to standard 12oz bottles, especially since these only hold 11.2oz 1/3L. I looked at the label and sure enough, it says "Bottle Fermented", so these must be more heavily constructed to withstand the additional pressure. I'll weigh an empty tonight and a few other 11.2oz German import bottles I have in my stock and post the numbers.

I'm going to keep buying these so I can enjoy the beer and slowly phase out all my crappy lightweight domestic bottles.

 

To be clear, this simply means that it's bottle conditioned - fermentables are added to the beer in the bottle and it carbonates in the bottle. Most non-legging homebrewers follow this procedure to carbonate and there's no special pressure put on the bottle unless you overcarbonate the beer.

 

Well with almost 100 grams additional glass, I politely beg to differ...

 

I, too, prefer to buy bottles that come with free beer inside. I picked up a 12 pack of Erdinger at binny's beverage depot for $12.99, they came filled with a scrumtrilescent German weissbier which I enjoyed greatly. It's almost Oktoberfest season so your local beer emporium should be running specials on German imports.

 

The Erdinger bottles in my previous post hold only 11.2oz but weigh about 290 grams, and like all german beer bottles, the labels fall off on their own after just a short soak in warm water. I wish all labels were that easy to remove, I *HATE* scraping them off American brands.