mason jars

[hickaseer]

anyone use mason jars, success when bottling?

 

[Revvy]

Read this....and go get regular bottles.

 

[HopSong]

Just fine for drinkin beer.. check my avitar :rockin:

 

[cincydave]

Never tried it, but lots of threads on it. Just search for bottling in mason jars and read varying opinions. Most feel not a good idea for several reasons.

 

[djfriesen]

With as cheap as bottles and caps are, I can't see a good reason to run the risk. Buy and drink some good craft beer (no twist offs!) and clean the bottles.

 

[unionrdr]

Mason jars aren't designed to contain a couple atmospheres pressure. Just the vacuum in the small head space.

 

[cullen]

Go to a bar that serves good beer in bottles, ask the bartender nicely if you can take a 9 or 10 cases of their empties, take them home, clean them, and use them. Free, safe, and built for beer.

 

[cullen]

Mason jars are for distilled sprits....

 

[unionrdr]

Mason jars are for distilled sprits....

yeppers! ceegereets,& woosky,& wild,wild womens!!!

 

[Erroneous]

While revy's reply is, as always, more in depth and accurate, I've had a washed yeast sample in a mason jar before. Apparently it wasn't completely fermented out and I found some yeasty goodness in my fridge a week later. Popped the lid just enough for co2 to escape.

+1 get beer bottles from a bar.

 

[TyTanium]

Ditto all of the above.

Just had one blow in my fridge, and all that was in it was washed yeast slurry harvested from a primary - not even primed beer. Small residual sugars were enough to make it blow (or I got an infection, but highly unlikely). Not designed for pressure.

EDIT: Haha, Erroneous, great minds think alike.

 

[cullen]

yeppers! ceegereets,& woosky,& wild,wild womens!!!

They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane!

 

[unionrdr]

Well,you've heard my story,so take warnin dear brother. Or you'll wind up with a drink in one hand,& a fool on the 'tuther!!!