Which caps does this bottle take? (Picture)

[SilverAnalyst]

Hi, I purchased bottles with these necks:

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Will these be able to take crown caps? I don't have any corks at the moment. One of my beers is begging to be bottled tomorrow, should I bottle it with balloons on the bottles until I can get corks?

Thanks!

 

[Sir Humpsalot]

I don't see anything for a cap to grab onto. Better get to drinking. Make yourself some empties!

Here's what you do.... Go buy 48 bottles of Sam Adams, call your friends over along with anyone passing on the street and tell them that the bottles must be emptied by morning. You'll get your bottles and probably make a few new friends along the way....

 

[JimC]

Corks and champaign cages.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

Dammit!!! I just purchase these from the homebrew store in order to keep my 40 pints of beer in them. The guy swore that they take crown caps. Damb! Now I'm going to have to buy some corks from ebay. Grrrrr :mad

 

[mountainrev]

I'd go back to the homebrew shop and either have them demonstrate how it can take a crown cap, or demand my money back. If you know a bar or tavern owner, you can probably get an infinite supply of capable bottles today.

Or tell the homebrew shop guy you'll swap these bottles for some swing tops of equal size!

 

[BlindLemonLars]

Dammit!!! I just purchase these from the homebrew store in order to keep my 40 pints of beer in them. The guy swore that they take crown caps. Damb! Now I'm going to have to buy some corks from ebay. Grrrrr :mad

Is this a local store? Take them back for exchange, they were misrepresented! Even if it was bought on the net, I think you're entitled to a free exchange. I sure wouldn't want to mess around with corks and cages.

The Sam Adams beer-party is a good suggestion, that's how I got my bottles back in the late 1980's. I bought a few cases of Corona and Chihuahua (the latter was $1.99 a sixer at the time!), ordered the Tyson/Spinks fight on pay per view, and invited a bunch of friends over. The fight only lasted a minute and a half, but the guys kept guzzling the cheap beer and I had my bottles.

Make sure everybody rinses their empties before they grab another beer.

 

[joshpooh]

I read that Champaign bottles were capable, but I don't know that I would take the chance because I don't see anything for a cap to grab onto. I would try to exchange them because even though the party with free Sam Adams is a great idea you would still be stuck with unusable bottles that you paid for if you don't exchange them.

 

[the_bird]

Some champagne bottles are cappable - but they have a crown I'm actually saving them up, I think I'm going to bottle the 777 in them.

 

[Cherry Bottom Brewing]

I was at my LHBS yesterday looking for bottles for Apfelwein, and my wife saw some just like that but they were blue. The owner tole me that I would need a corker and corks for those bottles, but did show me some cabable champagne bottles, that had a crown similar to beer bottles. I would ask for an excjange.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

Hmm, seems to much of a schlep to take them back. Can I put in corks with a capper?

 

[the_bird]

Not if they're going to be under pressure. The corks will never stand up to any pressure, and even if they did, the glass isn't designed to hold pressure either.

If you don't want to bring them back, make some apfelwein (or something like that) and use these to bottle it uncarbonated, using corks. But, you need a corker to install corks, the capper won't do

 

[SilverAnalyst]

Thanks.... ****

 

[Moonpile]

I read that Champaign bottles were capable, but I don't know that I would take the chance because I don't see anything for a cap to grab onto. I would try to exchange them because even though the party with free Sam Adams is a great idea you would still be stuck with unusable bottles that you paid for if you don't exchange them.

My buddies and I use Champagne bottles frequently. There are two kinds (that I'm aware of), those you can cap with a standard crown cap and those that require a 29mm cap. If you can sit a standard cap on it easily and it doesn't fall off, you should be able to cap it. If you have the standard red handled capper, you will need to turn the metal plates around.

If you have a lot of 29mm bottles, you'll need to get 29mm caps and a 29mm bell.

The bottles that spawned this thread look like wine bottles to me. There's no way to use those for beer (unless you like flat beer).

 

[SilverAnalyst]

I want to swear but the forum does not allow I'm sure

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

You can try to swear but you just get ****.

That HBS must take those back. Give em a smack to the head for giving you the worng kind as well.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

I'll try to give em back to them but I doubt they'll take em back. It's a pharmacy owner and when I called him about the problem he didn't seem to care. I'm worried about pissing him off as well as it's the only close homebrew store. I'm in London by the way.

 

[thebikingengineer]

Even if he seemed pissed or uninterested, he gave you wrong information and then sold you a product you couldn't use. You, as a customer, are entitled to get an exchange for the product you were looking for in the first place. Go back and don't take no for an answer, if you need, raise a small ruckus, get the authorities involved. Make it less trouble for the guy to just exchange for what you need, then find another LHBS (or the internet, of course).

 

[cubbies]

I agree with thebikingengineer. If you need to, go to the store and raise a stink. If you can, figure out a day when you know other customers will be in the store and go then. If he is any kind of business owner, he will exchange the bottles, if for no other reason, just to save face in front of other customers. If for whatever reason he wont take them back, tell him that you will never shop there again if he doesnt, and if he still wont...then dont. Sell your bottles on Ebay, get some new ones, and order all of your stuff off the internet.

If you do have to get new bottles, try calling a local brewery. I recently had a local Micro here in St Lou sell me 24-22oz and 24-12oz for $11.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

He's not worth shopping at if he doesn't take back what he wrongly sold you.

Why would asking him to replace what he sold you going to piss him off?

 

[olllllo]

Hi-tech:
Do not shop at {insert URL here}
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=29652

Low Tech:
Break 3 - 4 bottles per parking space in his lot.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

"Break 3 - 4 bottles per parking space in his lot."

he he

Thanks guys

 

[the_bird]

He's not worth shopping at if he doesn't take back what he wrongly sold you.

Why would asking him to replace what he sold you going to piss him off?

Yeah, it's not going to cost him any money. You bring back the bottles that don't work, he puts them back on the shelf to unload on the next schlep.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

Yeah, instead of causing a fuss I'm going to go and buy shampaign corks and cages. I know, but they are cheap and the only glass bottles he sells.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Those are wine bottles. The will likely explode.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

"Those are wine bottles. The will likely explode."
Really? They seem so sturdy?

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Wine bottles are not designed to hold pressure. Thats why they don't use them for champagne.

If you use wine bottles you are risking bottle bombs.

 

[SilverAnalyst]

Hmmm, only risking eh