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Using Commercial Beer Bottles

It depends on which breweries bottles you're reusing.  When I was bottling I used to sanitize in the dishmachine, and the cheap bottles would only survive a couple batches before they would crack at the nack when bottling.  Not every one, but maybe 1 in 5.

 

cmanley542 wrote:

It depends on which breweries bottles you're reusing.  When I was bottling I used to sanitize in the dishmachine, and the cheap bottles would only survive a couple batches before they would crack at the nack when bottling.  Not every one, but maybe 1 in 5.

great info there I was thinking of resuing some commerical bottle and not wasting my good bottles for a party I have going thanks for the tips

 

I think they would last longer if you don't try to use heat to sanitize them.  It's probably the stress of temperature shock that causes the cheap bottles to crack.

 

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