will growler cap hold?

[Burro2882]

Has anyone had a problem bottling to a gallon growler? Im wondering if the cap will hold it all in under pressure.

 

[Nurmey]

It's not so much the cap not holding as the bottle exploding.

 

[Burro2882]

why would the bottle explode? It seems plenty thick. Not saying i dont believe you im just wondering. I figured the cap would be the problem

 

[purechaos]

bummer, i have a couple growlers lying around and dont have a capper and thought about bottling what doesnt fit into my kegs into a growler.

 

[Nurmey]

There are some flip top "growlers" made to withstand the pressure of carbonating beer but those brown jugs with screw tops are not.

If you did a search on growlers you would find a couple people that have done it successfully but if you will also find folks that discovered the hard way why it doesn't work. Glass shrapnel is not fun.

 

[nebben]

Has anyone had a problem bottling to a gallon growler? Im wondering if the cap will hold it all in under pressure.

This guy did...stay far away...very far away... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/exploding-growlers-89246/

 

[OMJ]

I have a few flip top growlers. They are like big grolsh bottles. I have used them when I ran out of bottles a few times with no problems

 

[chucke]

Couldn't plastic caps be used instead of the metal ones to bottle in growlers?
The idea being, if pressure gets too high, the plastic cap will fail before the glass bottle.

 

[c.n.budz]

I've always heard all these same comments about growlers not being any good for bottling but a friend of mine has used regular growlers to bottle and had good success. I'm not sure what type of beer was in them originally though

 

[Arkador]

This guy did...stay far away...very far away... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/exploding-growlers-89246/

Just called swmbo to release the pressure on my growler of Apfelwien...

 

[Boondoggie]

From what I understand, brown growlers are pressure friendly, clear ones are not.

 

[alexdagrate]

I bottle-carb all the time in growlers.

i had one explode once, but it had a muslin bag with hops in it and i think it exploded when the sun came through the kitchen window and warmed it up.

Every time i've kept the growler in a dark place at a good temp, no problems.

 

[humann_brewing]

I use rogue growlers with NO issues, prime and carb at room temp.

Just to be sure, I put it in some brown grocery bags, overlapped several times.