Best commercial beer bottles for homebrew

[FourSeasonAngler]

Boulevard anything. (Most people enjoy their Wheat, Tank 7, or 80-Acre) they have stubby 12 oz. bottles. Label comes off in water within about 2 minutes. They are stout, dark, sturdy and I've dropped tons and still no breaks, my favorite by far.

-K

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Those 12oz Boulevard Tank 7 bottles are strong and cool as hell.

 

[LongEZBrew]

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Those 12oz Boulevard Tank 7 bottles are strong and cool as hell.

Those do look nice. Since I cannot get them here Anchor bottles are still my favorite 12 ounce bottles. Bass/Guinness are a second because I don't mind loosing them when I give beer away.

Stocking up on German 500ml bottles (like Salvator <photo copyright ciceronito Maxwell> or the more squat Bamberg style <Photo copyright Marcus Cyrone>. (Actually, I only have one of the Bamberg style which I brought back home with me from Germany.)

 

[Floored]

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Those 12oz Boulevard Tank 7 bottles are strong and cool as hell.

I put some apfelwein in 12 oz. smokestack series bottles at 5 volumes with no problems. Great shape too.

 

[KVANTAN]

Tiger. Very heavy walls.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

I didn't see if people differentiated between Guinness Extra and Guinness Draught (11.2oz, no widget) but the Draught ones are a cool shape and delabel with the swipe of a paring knife or razor blade.

 

[1977Brewer]

I didn't see if people differentiated between Guinness Extra and Guinness Draught (11.2oz, no widget) but the Draught ones are a cool shape and delabel with the swipe of a paring knife or razor blade.

They're my favorites.

 

[brewcat]

My favorite are Guinness Draught bottles. Just cut off label with a pocket knife and rinse out.

I've also been using the big Anchor Christmas ale bottles. They are 1.5 liters or 50 ounces.

 

[BassElement]

I've also had good luck with SA bottles, less so with some of the 11.2 oz German imports (hard to cap).

My favorite for wheats and stouts is the 22oz Lagunitas Hop Stoopid Ale bottle. Label comes off with an overnight soak and there's no embossing, plus it's right solid. Helps that the beer is good and not expensive.

The heaviest bottles I've found so far are from Samuel Smith, but I can't really afford to buy those in bulk so am slowly building the collection...

 

[Kharnynb]

My favourite small bottles are standard finnish bottles, they are stubby, 12 ounce and have the good "mushroom" top for best grip when capping.

other than that i prefer .5 liter flip top bottles for my "quick drinking" beers, easier on the filling and saves caps.


the german bottles have the annoying "straight" top instead of the more rounded, it seems the capper can't grip it well.

 

[alexnova]

I just cleaned a bunch of British beer bottles and I'm impressed by how stout (ha!) they are. The Samuel Smith bottles are beasts, and the Fuller's bottles are heavy too. Raised glass be damned.

I second/third/27th Sierra Nevada. It's a nice looking bottle. Soaking one in the sink while I fix dinner.

For local DC stuff, Port City has the easiest bottles to delabel. No embossing, paper falls off after a short soak, and the glue comes off with two swipes of a green scrubby pad. I can clean em faster than I can drink em.