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twist off beer bottles
I've capped twist-offs with a hand capper with great success... If you're afraid, then set aside a couple of twist-offs and cap a few to see what happens.
its all about getting a seal, and not cracking the bottle. If you can get that reliably with twist offs good for you. it is easy enough to ask a local restaurant to set aside pop top bottles for a while. they usually are happy to do so.
I have used a 1.5L wine bottle with a traditional cork before and it worked, but the first time the beer was a bit under carbonated. by turning the wine bottle on its side (so that the cork is under water) during carbonation it will retain the CO2 head much better.
BUT if you have solids/ sediment you need to be careful when pouring since it will be on the side wall instead of the bottom
efloyd18 wrote:
its all about getting a seal, and not cracking the bottle. If you can get that reliably with twist offs good for you. it is easy enough to ask a local restaurant to set aside pop top bottles for a while. they usually are happy to do so.
I have used a 1.5L wine bottle with a traditional cork before and it worked, but the first time the beer was a bit under carbonated. by turning the wine bottle on its side (so that the cork is under water) during carbonation it will retain the CO2 head much better.
BUT if you have solids/ sediment you need to be careful when pouring since it will be on the side wall instead of the bottom
You can get expansion plastic type stoppers that will work in wine bottles and beer. I've used them on both. The beer carbonates normally as the stopper expands to for a tight seal when the lever is pushed down on the side of the stopper. they're reusable and just need to be soaked in sanitizer before using.
DC
I tried this on a few as I ran out of bottles to use. The twist offs worked fine actually held in a lot of carbonation...........more than normal beer....plus it seemed like the cap seated really well. I just screwed a cap on........it was pretty hard to get off but it did work well.
Have used twist-off bottles when I was short of regular, worked OK with my old cast iron geared capper using standard caps.
However, BEWARE that if you OPEN them with a church-key type opener, instead of twisting them off, sometimes a chunk of the top lip of the bottle cracks off, and winds up in the bottom of the bottle, ready to be swallowed down your anxious little gullet!
Sharp glass the guts don't appreciate! imp
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