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Where to buy beer bottles?
Years ago I used old commercial beer bottles, but now I plan to brew at the local club and I no longer have my old bottles.
I'm sure they have bottles for sale. Is there a better place to get them?
I'm not sure if you would be into this, but a friend of mine just keeps old bottles and uses those. The screwtops are simple enough to use to recap the bottle, and it saves him a ton of money.
As a brewing newbie, I would probably want to go this route. If I start to get good at this, then I'd probably look into buying new bottles...
If you need some new bottles then you can have a try to e-bay or can find it in your local market from where you got 1st ones.
Thanks guys. I used to use old bottles, but I gave them away when I moved to the condo.
Also I had a jet washer on the laundry sink tap in the house, but that would be messy in the condo kitchen for washing bottles.
I think someone talked about washing bottles in the dishwasher. Does that work well?
You should be careful with the dishwasher. If you use it, make sure you are using the hottest temp setting possible. Also, you should be starting with a good quality water - I know our water here is extremely hard and full of mineral deposits, so using this would require that I do extra cleaning before sanitizing.
yes if you need to avoid uninvited guests in there washing is an important aspect of brewing so i always too much acreful about washing!
There are lots of place if you want to purchase beer bottles. You can even buy it online if you want to. Britain's biggest beer shop with more than 1000 different bottled beers and glasses from 50 countries to buy online. Next day delivery service. Check this site http://www.limesearch.co.uk. Hoping that it may help you.
most homebrew supply stores sell bottles. i think it's more fun to buy bottles that are full of beer and then drink the beer though. most any brown glass bottles THAT AREN'T TWIST-OFFS will do. i have found that, with my capper, i get a better seal with american beer bottles (sam adams works great) than i do with european beers.
When I began brewing, I just used cheap plastic bottles like the ones that are used for soda pop. However, I then switched to using Grolsch swingtop bottles. It's funny. Buying the bottles with beer in them costs about the same as buying the bottles without beer, and I don't have to worry about capping.
I like the way gooru thinks. I've found Grolsh bottles work well as well as other swing top styles too. I searched ebay for swing top bottles a coupla weeks ago and realized that I could actually make money drinking Grolsh and selling the bottles to other homebrewers. (This is mainly because I can ship for free through work and pocket any shipping charges I collect.) When I first started brewing I was worried that I wouldn't have enough bottles. So I started saving mine and came to the conclusion that I must drink more than I realized cuz in a week I had more bottles than I knew what to do with. So save your empties it'll help and if you drink as much as I do you won't need to worry about buying bottles ever.
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