Beer in wine bottles?

Noodles · Post by **Noodles** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 4:35 pm

How do you find the green bottles for storage? Do you have to take extra care to keep them in the dark or do you just treat them like a dead marine?

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 4:37 pm

You can often find cheap 750ml bubbly bottles for $7-8. The cheapest magnums I could find were $100 per half dozen and they wanted another $18 to post them. Being cleanskins I am not game to chance the contents being drinkable

None the less it would be pretty cool to roll up at a party with a half dozen of these babies

http://www.jackswine.com.au/product_details.php?pid=608

That is the link if anyone is interested, they are already sealed with crown tops...pretty much guaranteed you will be able to reuse them!

James L · Post by **James L** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 5:03 pm

HA.... go the passion pop bottles... cheapest i even saw them was 3 for 10 bucks... and that was with the pop still inside... Or Minchenbury... that stuff is horrible, but its cheap 5 bucks each..

Wouldnt recommend drinking the stuff... but cheap bottles....

Either that... or grab one of these bad boys..

http://www.cospak.com.au/productdetails ... ctID=14694

James L · Post by **James L** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 5:11 pm

Sorry... that was silly... but that particular company do sell bottles... if you were contemplating buying them new

Noodles · Post by **Noodles** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 5:19 pm

I definitely won't be buying full champagne bottles, if I'm buying full bottles they'll be Coopers. I just got onto a good contact locally who can supply me with 10-20 empty champagne bottles per week for nothing, which has come in real handy because i've been brewing heaps lately.

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 6:21 pm

Thats a nice link there James. They have both 1.5L and 3L Champagne bottles!!!

I think I may just get a quote...they have tirage seals as well.

James L · Post by **James L** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 6:23 pm

the only problem is that they'll only sell bulk amounts... so you might have to go in with someone else... these are the same mob i tried to get my 500ml german style beer bottles from... i could only get them by the pallet load...

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Monday Aug 20, 2007 6:25 pm

There is always eBay

Noodles · Post by **Noodles** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 9:13 am

Rod wrote:Been using champagne ( sparkling in Aus) for about 5 years

works well

another excuss to buy Jacobs Creek

nice dark bottles

Capped my first batch with champagne bottles last night. Switching the bells on my capper was no problems, but I didn't get the seal I was hoping for. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the caps to crimp properly, they're on but not as tightly as I would have hoped.

Just wondering if you've had a similar problem Rod?

pacman · Post by **pacman** » Saturday Aug 25, 2007 10:31 pm

Back to the original topic, has anyone bottled successfully in screw top (Stelvin type) wine bottles? Can the wine bottles withstand the pressure?

Most half decent wines these days come in seemingly fairly sturdy screw top bottles made of brown glass. The caps obviously seal still wine. Can these caps cope with bottle conditioned beer pressures?

Wouldn't be game to bottle a whole brew in these bottles, but might try one or two bottles as an experiment if I think of it next time I bottle. Anyone else tried this?