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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

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

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

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

ive checked the caps and it looks like it should seal

thanks
b

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

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

Concur.

Cheers,
Greg

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

Any bottles need to be rated for carbonated drinks.

how so?

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 .....

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!