Question on bottle conditioning

[mattymatt79]

Hi, I have a random question. Would it be possible to bottle condition in something bigger than the typical 12oz. bottle? Something like this?
http://www.containerandpackaging.com/item.asp?item=G005

I say this, because it's very rare that the wife and I enjoy just one beer, and we'd like to save on space with how we run our process. Would using something like this work or the inability to lock it down make conditioning and carbing not happen.

Is there anything else bigger that we could use if this wouldn't work?

 

[kgraber]

The issue may be the thickness of the glass on that but I'm not sure. There are 22oz bottles you could use.

 

[Weizenwerks]

The issue with the growlers like those are they are usually rated for 2.4 volumes of CO2 or less, so they aren't good for high carbonated beers like hefeweizens.

What I like about growlers is portability, since I keg my beers at home. My garage houses the kegerator so I just fill a growler up, cap it, and bring it inside to the kitchen fridge.

 

[MaltMonster]

How about these?

http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewi...cap-bottles-brown-1-liter-with-flip-tops.html

Actually cheaper than what you linked to...

 

[troub]

It is quite possible to bottle-condition in larger bottles, but a standard growler (basically what you linked to) is kind of iffy for the purpose of bottle-conditioning for carbonation. The pressure created may very well either leak out of the cap or even fracture the glass altogether. 22 oz. "bomber" bottles are good, I have some 1-liter swingtops that I use a lot, and I've re-purposed a 5-liter Miller HomeDraft for homebrew as well. Carbonation and conditioning happens just fine in these larger vessels -- just make sure they're designed for the pressure.

 

[duckmanco]

Your best bet and cheapest and easiest by far is to re-use standard plastic soda bottles, 2 liter, 3 liter etc. with the original plastic caps. I tried this recently and only bottled 2 2liter bottles of an IPA with priming sugar and screwed the caps back on. I could feel the bottles firming up with CO2 inside of a few days and the whole two liter bottles carbed up inside of 2 weeks, worked really well, cost me nothing, and I poured 3 or 4 beers out of one container. The only drawback I can see is that you have to keep them out of the light, as soda bottles are either clear, or green.

 

[KevinW]

You should prime the entire batch so as to have even carbonation so theoretically you could put your primed beer in any container that can hold the pressure and can be sanitzed. I like the 2/3 liter bottle idea!