How mant times can you reuse bottles?

[usmc-ferg]

This will be my fourth time bottling with these. I haven't come across anything about this. I just don't want them to explode

 

[unionrdr]

Add infinitum. Mine have been in use close to two years & still going.

 

[usmc-ferg]

Add infinitum. Mine have been in use close to two years & still going.

Right on that's great. Cheers!

 

[beerman0001]

Forever

 

[Subsailor]

So long as they aren't chipped or cracked, glass is practically forever.

 

[C-Rider]

Until you drop one and it breaks. LOL Really as long as it's clean and not chipped on the capping end forever.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I've broken the neck off a few during bottling. That's when they are no longer usable. Otherwise, if they develop mold or other junk in it, it's also time to let them go. If you think you can clean all the mold out I'll save you the time and give you some of my excess clean bottles for free.

 

[earwig]

I've cleaned mold out of bottles very successfully. Let them sit in oxyclean free for a few hours and then bottle jet in the slop sink. Really; scolding hot water and the bottle jet is even probably enough.

 

[kh54s10]

I've cleaned mold out of bottles very successfully. Let them sit in oxyclean free for a few hours and then bottle jet in the slop sink. Really; scolding hot water and the bottle jet is even probably enough.

I agree, clean them really well, sanitize them - no problem.

Unless you break for chip the rim bottles should last basically forever.

 

[45_70sharps]

Are you a reloader?
Brass has a life span because it stretches and stresses but beer bottles.... No stress involved in Beer!!

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I've cleaned mold out of bottles very successfully. Let them sit in oxyclean free for a few hours and then bottle jet in the slop sink. Really; scolding hot water and the bottle jet is even probably enough.

"Really" cannot have a semi-colon because it is not an independent clause.


Grammar policed. :fro:

 

[amandabab]

If you think you can clean all the mold out I'll save you the time and give you some of my excess clean bottles for free.

Almost every used bottle I've ever got had mold in them. It never came back after the first cleaning.

 

[dudius]

I'm very grateful to have friends who rinse bottles soon after consumption. I'm not as good about that, so I often return bottles for deposit and then ask my buddies for their empties. One friend just gave me two boxes of Woodchuck Cider bottles, which I love because they're all the same bottles, they were all rinsed, and the labels peel off like a dream. Strangely they have no MI deposit so I we both won on that deal. They aren't as dark a brown as most beer bottles but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

 

[kylevester]

Are you a reloader?
Brass has a life span because it stretches and stresses but beer bottles.... No stress involved in Beer!!

Not to be pedantic...

Glass is a fluid, not a solid, and ever so slowly sags over time.

:cross:

 

[dudius]

Not to be pedantic...

Glass is a fluid, not a solid, and ever so slowly sags over time.

:cross:

I've heard it argued that glass doesn't sag over time and that old glass was just made that way, which is logical.

 

[runbad]

As counterintuitive as it might sound, glass is an elastic solid. The "waves" you see in old glass were there from day number one.

 

[brewingmeister]

You can reuse that plasma...err..glass as many times as you wish if they are cared for properly.

 

[45_70sharps]

As counterintuitive as it might sound, glass is an elastic solid. The "waves" you see in old glass were there from day number one.

Exactly! First time I ever heard anyone call glass a liquid and say it flows over time was on T.V. where they were setting the record straight on it.

Old wives tale based on the quality of old glass ( like you said ).

 

[OG2620]

Not to be pedantic...

Glass is a fluid, not a solid, and ever so slowly sags over time.

:cross:

Actually, it is an amorphous solid.

 

[freisste]

Actually, it is an amorphous solid.

+1. As was stated, glass is a solid and does not "flow" any more than any other amorphous (non-crystalline) materials. In an early materials engineering class I took, the professor laid this to rest by having us work through a problem. Under its own weight at record temperatures on earth, it would take something like 250,000 years for glass to deform as much as what people thought it did. As it turns out, early artisans just weren't very good at making the glass a uniform thickness. This "theory" was also debunked because statistically, half the window panes were thicker at the TOP than the bottom.

Reuse glass bottles forever, BTW. Many materials (brass, for example) fatigue over time. Ceramics, as a general rule, exhibit no plastic deformation. That is, if it isn't fractured, it is as good as the day it was made.

 

[earwig]

"Really" cannot have a semi-colon because it is not an independent clause.


Grammar policed. :fro:

Really?

 

[kylevester]

+1. As was stated, glass is a solid and does not "flow" any more than any other amorphous (non-crystalline) materials. In an early materials engineering class I took, the professor laid this to rest by having us work through a problem. Under its own weight at record temperatures on earth, it would take something like 250,000 years for glass to deform as much as what people thought it did. As it turns out, early artisans just weren't very good at making the glass a uniform thickness. This "theory" was also debunked because statistically, half the window panes were thicker at the TOP than the bottom.

Reuse glass bottles forever, BTW. Many materials (brass, for example) fatigue over time. Ceramics, as a general rule, exhibit no plastic deformation. That is, if it isn't fractured, it is as good as the day it was made.

Well, color me stupid. I indeed was repeating an old wives tale. I'd not heard this info before. Learnin' is fun!