Brown Plastic Beer Bottles?

[lump42]

Would it help if for plastic beer bottles you give them a light squeeze to eliminate headspace (and thereby air, along with its pesky oxygen) before screwing on a cap? This seems at first glance to start you out in a much better oxygen ingress situation than for simply filling unpurged glass bottles.

That's what I do when I bottle condition in plastic bottles. If I'm pulling off a keg, I usually will hit the empty bottle with co2 first.

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

Is the 'Mr. Beer' 740 mL (25 Oz.) amber plastic bottle the exact same bottle as for Coopers?

 

[deeve007]

The PET brown bottles are the most common used in Argentina, due to price I'm sure, though I have to say it is much easier simply screwing a lid on rather than needing a tool to do so. And from what I gather within the home brewing community here it doesn't negatively impact on carbonation or taste, though I probably wouldn't want to keep for longer than 6 months (though I'm no expert, maybe they'd be fine then too?).

 

[Toxxyc]

The brown plastic bottles are popular in South Africa because they don't break when you ship them.

 

[dwhite60]

I got a case of the Cooper's 740ml bottles free. Like them so much I bought another case. They're easy to use. Reusable caps. I haven't had any problems with them and will certainly buy more.

Only issue, it doesn't take much to knock them over when empty.

All the Best,
D. White

 

[501irishred]

Only issue, it doesn't take much to knock them over when empty.

Yep. Like bowling for beer!

The other small hurdle I’ve noticed is the fact they float so easy when empty. My cleaning process involves soaking bottles with oxiclean and hot water in an ice chest. With plastic bottles, I have to be way more precise filling the bottles because just a little spillage before they are all full (I eventually fill the chest too) and it looks like a frustrating game of bumper boat bottles!

 

[Zambezi Special]

I clean the bottles under flowing hot water and keep them upside down in a crate.
Before bottling, I fill them with some starsan and shake them about. Put them upside down in a crate (lid on), and when bottling commences, open lid, empty out bottle and fill. Put lid back on et voila!
Seems to work for me

 

[davidabcd]

Would it help if for plastic beer bottles you give them a light squeeze to eliminate headspace (and thereby air, along with its pesky oxygen) before screwing on a cap? This seems at first glance to start you out in a much better oxygen ingress situation than for simply filling unpurged glass bottles.

I'm on the sister site in the UK also and that's exactly what many of them do. Even when filling bottles from the bottling bucket, it allows for more control of the headspace.

 

[Kugel]

This is an old thread, I know, but I have a couple of questions...

I plan to keg and force carbonate a 4 gallon batch in a 5 gallon Corny. Then, when I get ready to go to the beach, or on a picnic, I plan to use 2L soda bottles (cleaned and sanitized) as growlers. I'd like to find some older, dark green Sprite bottles, but it probably doesn't matter, since we'll consume the lot all in one day, or two days. Also, we'll be able to keep them ice cold in an ice chest.

1) Any suggestions on filling the bottles with the already carbonated brew to reduce foam and maximize filling while reducing loss of homebrew?

2) Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Good Brewing and God Bless!

Kugel

 

[Zambezi Special]

Fill very slowly with low pressure is all I can come up with
Hope someone else pitches in as that seems like a nice plan.
Are you just going to pour from your pet bottle? Or add a tap?

 

[mac_1103]

I'm assuming you don't have a beer gun or anything like that, so maybe just attach some tubing to your tap so you can fill the bottles from the bottom up. And yeah, low and slow like Zambezi said. Which makes me want to smoke some meat.

 

[Kugel]

Fill very slowly with low pressure is all I can come up with
Hope someone else pitches in as that seems like a nice plan.
Are you just going to pour from your pet bottle? Or add a tap?

Thanks for the reply!

Starting out, we will just pour from the PET bottle. I've seen those Ball Lock PET Bottle Connectors with the Gas-IN and Liquid-OUT connections (with Dip-Tube for 2L Bottles) - Ebay - but we'll see how it goes with the pouring first.

Good Brewing and God Bless!

Kugel

 

[doug293cz]

This is an old thread, I know, but I have a couple of questions...

I plan to keg and force carbonate a 4 gallon batch in a 5 gallon Corny. Then, when I get ready to go to the beach, or on a picnic, I plan to use 2L soda bottles (cleaned and sanitized) as growlers. I'd like to find some older, dark green Sprite bottles, but it probably doesn't matter, since we'll consume the lot all in one day, or two days. Also, we'll be able to keep them ice cold in an ice chest.

1) Any suggestions on filling the bottles with the already carbonated brew to reduce foam and maximize filling while reducing loss of homebrew?

2) Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Good Brewing and God Bless!

Kugel

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun.24678/
This works like a charm, and how I fill 1L & 2L soda bottles.

Brew on

 

[501irishred]

Look up (here or YouTube) counter pressure bottling. You can buy a setup or rig a simple DIY from an old racking cane, rubber stopper, and some tubing. Works well, and keeps foam to a minimum.

 

[AlexKay]

This is an old thread, I know, but I have a couple of questions...

I plan to keg and force carbonate a 4 gallon batch in a 5 gallon Corny. Then, when I get ready to go to the beach, or on a picnic, I plan to use 2L soda bottles (cleaned and sanitized) as growlers. I'd like to find some older, dark green Sprite bottles, but it probably doesn't matter, since we'll consume the lot all in one day, or two days. Also, we'll be able to keep them ice cold in an ice chest.

1) Any suggestions on filling the bottles with the already carbonated brew to reduce foam and maximize filling while reducing loss of homebrew?

2) Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Good Brewing and God Bless!

Kugel

Just be sure to keep the bottles in the ice chest when you're not serving. Direct sunlight will go right through green plastic and skunk your beer in minutes to hours.

What you're proposing would be well suited to Oxebar kegs if you're willing to pay for them (and if one will fit in your cooler). You could keg and force carbonate a batch in two of those, and not worry about transferring carbonated beer.

 

[Zambezi Special]

What you're proposing would be well suited to Oxebar kegs if you're willing to pay for them (and if one will fit in your cooler). You could keg and force carbonate a batch in two of those, and not worry about transferring carbonated beer.

Would be great if they come with their 4 litre size.
I've just ordered their carbonation T and caps. They fit on the "normal" pet bottles. I'll be playing around with them soon