bottle conditioning
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buzbey
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Where they carbonated when you drank the beer out of them?
Yeah,you def want pop top bottles. Otherwise,48-12oz bottles is the average number needed for 5 gallons of beer. 53 bottles tops. And if they're 11.2oz,like Paulaner bottles,that 48 could become 50.
TopherM
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Most commercial beer bottles are designed to hold up to about 4.0 atmospheres of carbonation pressure before they start to experience any stress.
Most beers are carbonated to about 2.3-2.6 atmospheres.
Most beers are carbonated to about 2.3-2.6 atmospheres.
I've used them, they're fine.
That's doesn't necessarily mean anything. IF the beer was forced carbed initially then it really doesn't matter, the bottles can be thinner than if it was a bottle conditioned beer. They just need to handle the PSI of the beer where it's at, NOT the psi spike during bottle conditioning. That's why you can use a growler to bring your favorite beer back from the brewpub, but shouldn't try to bottle condition in it or else you'll join the "growler goes boom" club.
Though I've yet to find an industry standard beer bottle that COULDN'T handle bottle carbing, it doesn't mean they don't exist, where people are cutting costs these days you never know when some pencil necked geek in accounting my realize they can save 1 tenth of a cent on each bottle by using a thinner one with a lower psi rating that's just barely higher than the level of co2 of the force carbed beer.
That's doesn't necessarily mean anything. IF the beer was forced carbed initially then it really doesn't matter, the bottles can be thinner than if it was a bottle conditioned beer. They just need to handle the PSI of the beer where it's at, NOT the psi spike during bottle conditioning. That's why you can use a growler to bring your favorite beer back from the brewpub, but shouldn't try to bottle condition in it or else you'll join the "growler goes boom" club.
Though I've yet to find an industry standard beer bottle that COULDN'T handle bottle carbing, it doesn't mean they don't exist, where people are cutting costs these days you never know when some pencil necked geek in accounting my realize they can save 1 tenth of a cent on each bottle by using a thinner one with a lower psi rating that's just barely higher than the level of co2 of the force carbed beer.
TopherM
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1 atmophere = 14.7 PSI.
Typical commercial beer bottles are rated to 45 PSI. Thicker Belgian beer bottles are rated to 70 PSI.
I'm sure those are both conservative #s. I've bottle carbed a Hefeweizen to 3.8 atmospheres, or about 56 PSI, in random commercial beer bottles without any bottle bombs.
Typical commercial beer bottles are rated to 45 PSI. Thicker Belgian beer bottles are rated to 70 PSI.
I'm sure those are both conservative #s. I've bottle carbed a Hefeweizen to 3.8 atmospheres, or about 56 PSI, in random commercial beer bottles without any bottle bombs.
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