Bottles

[GooseBrew82]

Hi gang! We are getting ready to bottle our first batch of beer with swing-top pint bottles. Trouble is, we don't have quite enough of them. We will eventually pick more up, but I am curious if we can use standard screw-top growlers like you get from a brewery. Can we use those to bottle or will we have problems with carbonation? We are using priming sugar from the kit, if that helps. We will probably bottle condition for a couple of weeks then throw them in the fridge to ready for our first tasting. Thanks for your insight!

Prost!
Aric

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Don't use the growlers, they're not designed to hold the pressure of bottle carbing.

 

[GooseBrew82]

Don't use the growlers, they're not designed to hold the pressure of bottle carbing.

Ok that is what I was afraid of. Thanks!

Aric

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Ok that is what I was afraid of. Thanks!

Aric

Look on the bright side.... tonight you get to drink as many beers as you're short bottles and tomorrow you can bottle 'er up!

 

[Revvy]

Got any plastic screw top soda bottles? Even two liter sized? Much better than using a growler and having it go boom.

If you want an explanation of why you shouldn't bottle in growlers, I've posted this about 100 times.

 

[amandabab]

Look on the bright side.... tonight you get to drink as many beers as you're short bottles and tomorrow you can bottle 'er up!

WIN!!!