MeadWitch
Well-Known Member
I am collecting beer bottles from work before I began my first batch of cider. I have been making mead for about a decade now and have all sorts of bottles for still & sparkling mead, but this is a first for collecting beer bottles. Compared to the mead bottles, the beer bottle walls I am finding seem to be a quite thin. Is this normal for beer bottles? I thought I had read that cider bottles needed to be tougher than ordinary mead bottles. I am not a beer drinking, so I am not sure if I am getting the right ones. I have been gathering Austin Amber and Fireman 4 bottles, the labels just fall off in the dishwater. I just want to make sure I am using the correct bottles. I have never had a bottle bomb to date and am not wanting to start now, if you know what I mean.