Capping

[Kristopher]

Planning on bottling my first batch this week. Question about capping. I'm using old twist off bottles. When I cap them, should they be as tight as store bought bottles? I did a few dry runs with table top capper, they take a slight bit of twist to get them off but nothing near what a store bought one would be. Thanks.

 

[msayler]

Send the twist-offs to the recycling plant. As I understand it, the neck/top glass on those is too thin to take the pressure of capping and carbonating.

 

[slym2none]

Using twist-offs is a losing proposition. Many have tried, almost everyone says they are a 50/50 sealing/not sealing proposition.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Planning on bottling my first batch this week. Question about capping. I'm using old twist off bottles. When I cap them, should they be as tight as store bought bottles? I did a few dry runs with table top capper, they take a slight bit of twist to get them off but nothing near what a store bought one would be. Thanks.

I cap some twist off bottles with a bench capper. The hand held wing capper won't work very well if at all. Mind you I'm not using twist off bottles for any thing that will be around for a while. So far, none have broken, all have carbed. With that said I'm stil a new brewer, but so far it's workingout to use twist tops with a bench capper.

 

[Mexibilly]

Recycle the twist offs.
Let it age a little longer while you drink enough non-twist off bottles to bottle 5 gallons.

 

[agrazela]

Where are you located? Maybe a friendly neighborhood HBT'er can donate you some proper bottles.

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

Planning on bottling my first batch this week. Question about capping. I'm using old twist off bottles. When I cap them, should they be as tight as store bought bottles? I did a few dry runs with table top capper, they take a slight bit of twist to get them off but nothing near what a store bought one would be. Thanks.

I just bottled for the first time, I usually keg check out this thread to awnser a lot of questions.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=571475

 

[NothingRhymesWithCurtiss]

If you can't get pry-off glass bottles, you can always use soda bottles/screw cap plastic bottles. Just be sure to avoid root beer bottles as the flavor tends to leach into the plastic.

 

[Kristopher]

Thanks for tips. Had a friend with 5 dozen pry off bottles. Capped great, nice and tight.