Wine bottles for beer?

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 9:30 am

My wife drinks white wine. She has been buying this one brand she has taken a liking to, and I've kept the bottles. They have a stelvin seal (screw cap) which seems to make a good seal when re-tightened, so I'm thinking I'll try a couple for beer to see if they gas up ok. Has anyone else tried re-using wine bottles, and how did it turn out? So far I have a dozen or so of these, and they increase at about 10 bottles per week.

timmy · Post by **timmy** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 9:59 am

I wouldn't. You need bottles that are designed to take pressure.

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 10:07 am

Yes, well good point Timmy. I hadn't considered that.

Don't want exploding bottles of beer.

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 4:57 pm

hehe yeah, not a good idea.

10 bottles a week, what a trooper

jk

the_fuzz · Post by **the_fuzz** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 5:01 pm

wine bottles are fine - just use corked bottles - champagne are the best

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 5:45 pm

But require expensive non-standard caps, and a new attachment for your capper.

morgs · Post by **morgs** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 6:59 pm

You might be able to use them. Would the lid give out before the glass? pressurewise that is.

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 8:04 pm

I think the lid would allow the pressure to escape before the glass breaks. I might try one and leave it somewhere 'safe'. Maybe even add a little extra sugar, in case my chosen bottle is not a good sample (i.e. uncharacteristically strong)

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Sunday Jul 08, 2007 9:31 pm

speaking from, uh "childhood" experience, usually the necks will explode off with the lid intact before the lid will come off alone

by childhood experience, read blowing sh!t up with my mates

Longrasser · Post by **Longrasser** » Monday Jul 09, 2007 10:50 am

10 bottles a week?
Just a warm up for some around here
20 plagons of woobla a week would be average.

James L · Post by **James L** » Monday Jul 09, 2007 10:52 am

i bottled my ginger beer in glass bottles with the metal screwtop lids (small cider bottles, kind've like the schweppes softdrink bottles), no matter how tightly i screwed the lids up after putting the beer in, the beer came out flat as a tack after 3 weeks... I've only tried a couple, so i might've had a couple of dodge ones, but personally, I wouldnt recommend these particular type screw caps, not worth the effort for the chance of flat beer..

James