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bottle size
Re bottle size I like 22oz Enough for pint (or a nice 20 oz glass) less capping is a plus.
Re grolsh type bottles friend of mine had conserns about sterilizing the top and also I think the wire on the side tends to fatigue over time.
Cheers
I'm partial to the 0.5L 'stubbies' that European brewers used to use. Now they are using more of a long neck 0.5L. The 0.5L is a nice size, right between 12 oz (the fun of capping wears off quickly) and 22 oz. If you can find them the 18.9 oz 'Sam Smith' imperial pint bottles are nice too. Being that it is New Years Champaign or Sparkling Cider bottles are good also.
Anyway - these are my preferences - Cheers.
Hi, warm beer in bottles make around 30psi,
and cold change to less than 5psi, I dont feel
wax will work for you, unless you want very low
almost flat type carbonation, stick to E-Z cap
tops if you do not want to fuss with caps like
on Grolsh bottles, or buy some like me and
drink em, there good, and reuse em.
Good Luck
I bottled my last batch of beer in both 12 and 22 ounce bottles. Upon sampling, it seemed the beer developed differently depending on the bottle size. I have done this in the past, but never seen much of a difference based on bottle size. Has anyone else encountered this or is it just my imagination? I also wondered if the amount of head room in the different sized bottles had anything to do with it.
On page 1 someone asked about using 1/2 gallon growlers for carbonation. I recently started brewing and I had a few of these from a local brewery. I didn't have bottles or bottling equipment, so I planned to use the growlers.
1.4 tablespoons of priming sugar and the metal lid needs to have the wax seal on it.
I've brewed three batches with sucessful carbonation now using the growlers. They're very nice because you only have to fill a few bottles...not 50. The downside is you have to drink the growler after opening...not sure how long it will stay fresh. You also can't drink from the growler...like a 12oz bottle.
~Adam
Regarding the wax seal, I don't have any clue if they do any good but the Grand Teton Brewing Company uses them on their special run beers. The bottles have a swing top and a wax seal over that. It looks pretty cool but it is a pain to get the seal popped without getting wax in your beer.
Sou
AOD wrote:
You also can't drink from the growler...like a 12oz bottle.
~Adam
oh yeah?!
I live in southern Florida and buy some Sierra Nevada Bigfoot every once in awhile and the first time I tried opening a bottle I thought for sure it was a typical bottle needing a bottle opener. After I used one to open the bottle I saw that it was actually a twist off! As I looked closer I could see crystalized...something on the threads.
Assuming the heat, I figured that the bottles got a little "fizzy" in transit and may have leaked past the sealed cap? Or perhaps there was a "shrink and swell" factor in transit from cold to warm each day.
Last, after opening the fourth or fifth one, my mind began to wonder if it was a practice used by the brewer to achieve a better seal on the bottle.....any speculations?
Interesting....
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