can i put wine in screw cap bottles

daylejb · Feb 4, 2010

Hi - I used to make wine a long time ago when corks nd bottles were easy to get hold of... now it seems all the bottles are screw cap and i live in a town in NZ where it is difficult to find wine making equipment for sale. Is it safe to put my wine into a screw capped bottle do you think?

david_42 · Feb 4, 2010

Yes, but re-using the original caps won't work, the seal has been crushed. You would be better off using beer bottles and capping them, but some screwtop bottles can be capped.

Heckle · Feb 4, 2010

You can either order screw caps from online or check at your LHBS if you have one.

gregbathurst · Feb 4, 2010

I agree that crown capped beer bottles are a better bet.

HitLines · Apr 20, 2010

Is it possible to use used screw caps and bottles for storing Apfelwein? I want to do half a batch carbed and another half without. I won't be putting the carbed into the wine bottles.

The treads are still strong and it seals water just fine but I don't know if it would resist air and spoil the Apfelwein.

HitLines · May 4, 2010

Anyone care to weigh in about the wine bottles? I want to bottle this stuff next week if possible. It has been sitting since 11/8/09.

ToulouseLePlot · May 4, 2010

I've found the plastic screw-tops off large (2-litre) water bottles that we get through a lot of are perfect for screw-top wine bottles. The o/d of the bottle is slightly larger then the i/d of the top so it really grips and the seal in the top seems to fit snugly. I don't know if it would last years, but 6 months so far, so good.