Bottling on the cheap side

[RCCOLA]

Would using old hard liquor bottles work? I have a couple 1L and 750 bottles of captain Morgan, Absolute and other stuff. I was just wondering if the caps on those are air tight? I don't know if oxygen is a problem for hard liquor, I imagine it is but just wondering if those could be usable.

Safe rule of thumb is: If it didn't have carbonated liquid in it then don't use it.
The bottles may not be safe for carbonated pressures.

 

[dotnetdotcom]

Plastic soda bottles can be used, but not recommended for long storage. They are gas permeable. According to this article [ http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=351 ] they have a 10% carbonation loss in less than 50 days. This data doesn't make sense to me because soda seems to not have carbonation loss problems.

Plastic beer bottles have special coatings on them to reduce gas permeability.

 

[glenn514]

Would using old hard liquor bottles work? I have a couple 1L and 750 bottles of captain Morgan, Absolute and other stuff. I was just wondering if the caps on those are air tight? I don't know if oxygen is a problem for hard liquor, I imagine it is but just wondering if those could be usable.

The "hand-holds" molded into the sides of the bottles will probably pop out. The cap, however, will work out just fine.

A mechanical engineer mentioned to me that pressure vessels are cylinders because they hold the pressure so much better than other shapes. Therefore, when I use #1 PETE plastic bottles for bottling and bottle-carbonation, I select those bottles that are as round as possible. I had some juice bottles I had thought I'd use, but they were rectangular in section, and would not have worked as well.

And, by the by...it is probably a good idea to use plastic bottles for bottling and bottle-carbing only once.

glenn514

 

[midfielder5]

check the classifieds on here. people are posting free bottle giveways in one thread

 

[smata67]

Drive around on recycling day.

 

[Bithead]

I've been using tonic & seltzer bottles while I'm building my bottle collection. Work fine for me.