Bottling with wine bottles

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:18 pm

I am the newest homebrewer in Melbourne as of this morning. I have the PET bottles from the Coopers kit that I will be using and I am also wonderig if I can use wine bottles. I got 6 bottles months ago from ReWine in Preston Market and have kept them in thhe cupboard clean, they have a capping device on thhe top (thats my best explanation) can I use this?

If so, how many sugar drops should I put in when bottling?

Thanks,

b

drsmurto · Post by **drsmurto** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:20 pm

If they are 750 mL bottles like the Coopers PETs then its the same amount.

morgs · Post by **morgs** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:21 pm

I think you can use sparkling wine bottles ie champers but not wine bottles

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:46 pm

morgs-
just wondering why you said NO to wine bottles..

ive checked the caps and it looks like it should seal

thanks
b

morgs · Post by **morgs** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:48 pm

As far as i was aware they are not designed to hold pressure. Your quite welcome to try though

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:55 pm

morgs wrote:As far as i was aware they are not designed to hold pressure. Your quite welcome to try though

Concur.

Cheers,
Greg

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:56 pm

any suggestions on how to plan for the worst ie.explosion in the cupboard

i want to try this, i mean, ive had these bottles empty, staring at me, asking to be filled...they want it..

is it as simple as putting the bottles in bags before shoving them into the cupboard for 2 weeks

b

Emo · Post by **Emo** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 2:59 pm

Any bottles need to be rated for carbonated drinks.

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 3:02 pm

how so?

derfly · Post by **derfly** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 6:10 pm

How so? Because otherwise they'll go f'ing BANG and you will end up with pieces of glass embedded in your body.

Trust those that know this, you don't need to try it yourself .....

chris. · Post by **chris.** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 7:03 pm

Do the bottle's in question have a dimple in the bottom?

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Monday Dec 11, 2006 10:36 pm

morgs wrote:As far as i was aware they are not designed to hold pressure. Your quite welcome to try though

I was going to do the same, but too many horror stories put me off

Play it safe, it's not worth it.

Cheers

Boonie

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Tuesday Dec 12, 2006 10:02 am

yes there is a dimple in the bottom of the boottle

thanks for letting me know, as a begginer to this i got excited at the fact that i alrready had 6 cool looking bottles to work with

i wont though now, because of the advice ive been given

thanks again

b

JackoMC · Post by **JackoMC** » Tuesday Dec 12, 2006 11:20 am

Wine bottles are not designed to hold pressure, if you have Tirage (champagne) bottles, it is a different story, as these are perfect for beer bottling, you just need a different capper.

The dimple in the bottom of the bottle (the "punt") will be bigger in bottles suitable for carbonation, except when used in wine bottles, where they are more of a decoration.

Emo · Post by **Emo** » Tuesday Dec 12, 2006 12:29 pm

JackoMC wrote:Wine bottles are not designed to hold pressure, if you have Tirage (champagne) bottles, it is a different story, as these are perfect for beer bottling, you just need a different capper.

The dimple in the bottom of the bottle (the "punt") will be bigger in bottles suitable for carbonation, except when used in wine bottles, where they are more of a decoration.

The punt is actually a pouring aid. You are meant to put your thumb in it to pour wine out of the bottle.

Longrasser · Post by **Longrasser** » Wednesday Dec 13, 2006 3:11 pm

Before long the terror police will be restricting HB in glass bottles as WMD ..
Be vewwy vewwy careful

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Wednesday Dec 20, 2006 3:50 pm

Longrasser wrote:Before long the terror police will be restricting HB in glass bottles as WMD ..
Be vewwy vewwy careful

Are you hunting wabbits hahahahaha? That wascally wabbit.

Thanks Elmer.

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Wednesday Dec 20, 2006 7:00 pm

I bottled a few ginger beers to screw top wine bottles (not sparkling) and I didn't have any problems.

Having read this post I probably won't do it again out of fear, but it would be interesting to see whether there is anything to this!