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20oz Bottles Make the Best Pint....
Just an observation from a decanting challenged person. 20oz bottles take the guess work out of pouring a crystal clear homebrew. I tried smaller bottles and got too greedy and always wound up with a yeast cloud in my glass. 20oz bottles hold enough to fill a pint glass and leave the yeasty stuff in the bottle.
I find that with my 5 gallon kegs if I pour it into my 4.5 gallon mug (frosted of course), I can leave the gunk behind as well. I know that I am wasting half a gallon that way, but I can only finish one 4.5 gallon mug in a sitting anyway. 
16 oz bottles make the best pint.....15.5 in the glass and room for a little head......
GOODBREWING.......
I gave away all my 12 oz. bottles, too much hassle. And who is going to drink one 10 oz beer anyway. Get real. I'm 100% into the 20 oz.
I'd like to get into kegging. I understand, and believe, that one's interest in kegging is directly proportional to the number of bottles you have washed, filled, capped, emptied, rinsed, etc.
All I've got to work with is a spare beer fridge, which seems to be mostly full all the time, fancy that.
i bottle using 16 oz and litre, a few 16 oz per batch for tasting as the weeks progress, just to determine when the brew is ready for drinking. then the litre (33 oz) bottles make me very happy.
Krausenator:
Are you talking about using 1L plastic pop bottles? Or do you have 1L glass?
I was just wondering how you protect the beer from light in the pop bottles. I would guess that you are jsut careful about where you store it.
Brew on!
i use amber glass flip-tops. i have 16 oz, 33 oz, and 64 oz.
that half-gallon flip top is for bathroom trips and making headaches .
NICE!
I second the motion about bottling, washing, rinsing, sanitizing, rinsing again! its the absolute worst part of brewing. Williams brewing used to sell a couple of mini-keg systems, 1-1/4 gallons each so 4 kegs would do a 5 gal brew. One was called Phil Tap I think and I dont remember the other but it was similar, the small kegs fit nicely in the refridgerator and were easy to put into a cooler to take to outings. They no longer carry the small metal mini kegs but now have a plastic set-up. I should have ordered them when they were available.
does anyone know if someone else sells them now?
Morguns
Sanitizing has never been a big issue with me. As I rinse out bottles with hot tap water when I pour and the empties go right in the washing machine. But I am a 100% swing top guy that's for sure. I don't even want to get into capping. Maybe someday when my beer is good enough to give away en mass. But for now swing tops are the way to go.
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