Champaign bottles for beer?

[EricK The Red]

Will champaign bottles work for beer bottling? A freind of mine has about 20 of them and said I could have them.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Yup, they will. Finding the proper caps can be difficult sometimes, but I use them and they work really well. Sometomes you can cap them with crown caps but others you will need plastic corks and cages.

 

[david_42]

I like them for sparkling ciders, but as CC mentioned, finding the right caps can be a pain.

 

[gruntingfrog]

You can buy the corks and cages from BrewOrganic.com
http://www.breworganic.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=310

 

[casebrew]

I use regular caps on Martinelli's Cider bottles, for beer. Hard to find 1qt cap-able beer bottles in the dumpster.

 

[cdew4545]

I was bottling up two batches at once not too long ago and really got tired of using 12 oz bottles. I hade a few empty bottles of wine laying around, so I sanatized those and used them. Then, I corked them and took some small gauge wire and made a little clamp that ended up working really well. The clamp was a little pain the first time, but not hard to do once i figured out what would work.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I was bottling up two batches at once not too long ago and really got tired of using 12 oz bottles. I hade a few empty bottles of wine laying around, so I sanatized those and used them. Then, I corked them and took some small gauge wire and made a little clamp that ended up working really well. The clamp was a little pain the first time, but not hard to do once i figured out what would work.

If you used regular wine bottles, expect a possible explosion of glass when carbed!! They can't hold the pressure of a champagne or beer bottle!

 

[poorfatjames]

I was bottling up two batches at once not too long ago and really got tired of using 12 oz bottles. I hade a few empty bottles of wine laying around, so I sanatized those and used them. Then, I corked them and took some small gauge wire and made a little clamp that ended up working really well. The clamp was a little pain the first time, but not hard to do once i figured out what would work.

I'm definately interested to see if they do explode, because that's exactly what I wanted to do!

james