Bottles

warra48 · Post by **warra48** » Monday Apr 16, 2007 5:57 pm

I have about 45 PET bottles, but I am phasing them out. Having tasted the same beer from them and out of glass, I think glass wins hands down.
Here's a tip. I collect all my stubbies from my golf club, as I play twice a week. If you check the bins around the course, you will usually find heaps you can collect on the way. Other players in your group are always willing to give you their stubbies as they are emptied. Also, get friendly with your club's bar staff, they are usually happy to give you a bag full. The downside of this is, of course, that you have to clean each bottle thoroughly, but I limit myself to a couple of dozen stubbies each week to add to my stock. I have got fussy lately, and now only take Tooheys New, xxxx, or Coopers stubbies (so I can leave the capper on the one setting).
Stock so far is about 350 stubbies, but plan to build to 1000 to enable stock build up for ageing etc.

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Apr 16, 2007 6:26 pm

are you crown sealing on a twist off coopers stubbie

just interested in how it is
cuz every friday the boss buys a slab for us workers and i dont take them
home,

always like a good seal

or 2

sometimes 3 or 4

b

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Monday Apr 16, 2007 7:10 pm

Buscy,

Twist-ers are OK as long as you have a decent capper. There's a bit more force required to cap them and you do run a greater risk of breaking the top of the bottle when opening it. But I've only had 2 or 3 breakages in 11 batches.

Tim

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Apr 16, 2007 10:03 pm

ill give it a go
just didnt want to waste my beautiful brew

b

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Tuesday Apr 17, 2007 6:34 pm

buscador wrote:ill give it a go
just didnt want to waste my beautiful brew

b

Get a quality bench capper and they will not break.

I found that the "Italian" hand style ones broke the bottles.

Since the benchcapper I have had 0 breakages in over 1000 (Minimum

) bottles capped.

Cheers

Boonie

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Tuesday Apr 17, 2007 9:01 pm

Yep, with you Boonie.........well over a grand too!

sonictruth · Post by **sonictruth** » Wednesday Apr 18, 2007 10:10 am

i have one of those italian hand cappers with the two handles out the side. ive never had a problem with it. gives a good seal on twists and crowns

warra48 · Post by **warra48** » Wednesday Apr 18, 2007 11:39 am

Yup, i use the twisties as well. Make sure you get a good bench capper. Also, make sure you get caps from your HB shop which suit the twisties, as not all caps are the same. I've never had a breakage from capping yet.

buscador wrote:are you crown sealing on a twist off coopers stubbie

just interested in how it is
cuz every friday the boss buys a slab for us workers and i dont take them
home,

always like a good seal

or 2

sometimes 3 or 4

b

TommyH · Post by **TommyH** » Wednesday Apr 18, 2007 2:30 pm

I've been brewing for about 9 years now. (only started to get it right when I found this site a year ago) In that time I reckon I've bottled about 13 000 bottles. Nearly all twisties. Never had a breakage since I bought a bench capper. Bench capper is the way to go. Also never found much difference in what brand of caps I use.

Cheers

Tommy