Good Beer Bottles To Use

[ReverseApacheMaster]

The only bottles I've ever had break while bottling were new belgium bottles. The glass seems particularly thin. I suspect they buy thin bottles to reduce the packaging/shipping and ecological costs of the bottles. I've taken all my 12oz NB bottles out of use for fear of losing good beer to thin bottles. I should probably find somebody locally who is willing to use them.

 

[kh54s10]

I find any brown bottle that are free and that I can get the labels off are the best ones to use.

Ask friends for their empties!

 

[tennesseean_87]

I use mostly Anchor Stream bottles, because I seem to have a lot of them lying about. Only problem I ever had was when bottling my first batch, the neck cracked on one, but I think that was just because I suck at capping That said, I do prefer longnecks, but the Anchor bottles do have a good "handfeel".

I had several anchor bottles crack on my first batch. It could have been that I was new to capping, but only the anchor bottles cracked, so I got rid of them.

 

[Scot_chale]

I will never use Oxyclean again. After a 24 hr soak I rinsed and scrubbed with my bottle brush and after they air dried, I had wicked scale build up. Tried washing over and over to no avail.

I even cut back the soak to an hour and while the scale wasn't AS bad it still showed up. I had 60 bottles that I thought were ruined so I just soaked them over night in a 5 gal bucket full of Starsan I had left over from a previous bottling day. After rinsing and scrubbing, the Starsan seemed to get rid of it so I didn't have to chuck my bottles. But who knows, I live in FL and we have hard water so I am sure that had something to do with it.

Now...sorry about that rant... Magic Hat and Breckenridge use a lot of glue. I like Guiness bottles, no glue whatsoever!

my cousin uses the guinness bottles. one cut with a razor blade and the plastic comes right off. they're 11.2oz so you'll get more bottles out of your batch, which helps the ego boost. also, if you have any major retail liquor stores in the area, you can usually find it on sale for a reasonable price. 10.99/12pk was the special he cashed in on. furthermore, one hell of a session beer. it's just a good thing they got rid of those widgets. i can't imagine trying to get those things out.

 

[DustjunkieScott]

I hate bottling, but do so when I have something planned or one of my 6 kegs is not empty. That said, I have been going to Baja, Mexico a lot and have been bringing 40oz Tecate bottles back. They have a crimp on cap just like everything else. The coolest thing is I can bottle 5 gallons with just 16 bottles.