A note about the bottles:
The gallon jugs that Whole Foods sells cider in have Snapple-style, not growler-style caps. You know, the kind with the 'button' that pops when you open the bottle...
The bottles won't take a regular growler cap with threads, so if you're planning to package anything in these bottles, you'll have to reuse the caps they came with. I wasn't able to get the apple smell out of them after a 24-hour soak in Oxyclean, so I'm not sure how fit the caps themselves are for reuse.
If you're looking to use these bottles as fermenters only, like I am, then this won't matter, of course...