Favorite Bottle

[Ivan Lendl]

What is your favorite bottle to bottle beer with?

 

[FlyGuy]

Grolsch rocks! (Well, not the beer, actually.)

 

[Sir Humpsalot]

Is this just the bottling aspect? Or does it include the cleaning aspect? By far, Stiegl bottles are the easiest to clean.. The labels slip of like panties on prom night...

 

[Yuri_Rage]

In order of preference:

Corny kegs

Brown 16 oz flip-tops
Green 16 oz flip-tops (Grolsch)

Brown 12 oz micros (plain, no embossed/etched logos - Paulaner Hefe works great, and the labels practically fall off in hot water)
Sam Adams/New Belgium 12 oz

Brown 22 oz micros (most are painted...I don't bother trying to strip the logos)

I tend not to take the flip-tops outside the house for fear of losing them, so I usually bottle beer for social events and gifts in 12 oz pry-offs.

 

[Ryanh1801]

Chimay ftw!

 

[sirsloop]

Fischer 22oz flip tops are awesome... Grolsch ones are nice as well.... and sam adams makes perfect cappers

 

[McKBrew]

Favorite 12oz bottles are Red Hook, because the labels come off so easy. Also A draw-back, because they would require a custom sized home-made label

 

[mew]

The Deschutes Brewing Co. bottles are by far the best, but not very common.

 

[wild]

Fischer 22oz flip tops are awesome... Grolsch ones are nice as well.

I'm in favor of the Grolsch 1.5L bottles too. 12 for a 5 gallon batch. Make great growlers too.

Wild

 

[woosterhoot]

I love the shape of red stripe, but you cant get the logo off.

 

[Flyin' Lion]

Guiness bottles are pretty cool also, the labels come of with a zip of the scissors and the widget comes out with a pair of needle nose pliers. Not to mention they also have a cool unmistakeable shape.

 

[Ivan Lendl]

I love the shape of red stripe, but you cant get the logo off.

That would fall under 'painted label' type. You dodnt need to remove the labels. I like them too, but cant get myself to buy redstripe.

 

[fezzman]

Can you cap Hobgoblin 12oz bottles? I tried to bottle a 16oz and couldn't because of the top.

Redhook bottles rock. Flying Dog labels are a pain to remove so I just throw those away.