Bottling it !

[avtovaz]

Right I am not far off being ready to botr some cider and beer and I need some advice on what bottles I can use the bottles the water came in? These are pressure bottles and I think they will take six bar as I have used them for water rockets lol!!!!
Thanks



The water I bought to make my beer was morrisons sparkling water . Can I us

[Kev888]

If they were designed to keep carbonated liquid (and assuming your beer isn't going to be carbonated much more highjly) then I can't see a problem myself. But they'll let light through so you'd ideally need to keep them somewhere dark to protect the beer from the light.

Cheers
Kev

[avtovaz]

I have only today seen comments about light and beer, why is this?

I was talking to my mate today about the bottles and he said he read on a web site brewing shop that they recomend you use these bottles and chuck the water as the bottles are so cheep!!! ))

[Kev888]

Its called lightstrike. There's an entry on wikipedia about it here (so it must be true )

To be honest though I'm no expert in the physics/chemistry of it but I'm convinced from my early brewing days that keeping beer cool and dark really helps its storage, before odd smells and flavours begin forming.

Cheers
Kev

[thedeckking]

Brown/green beer are essentially sun glasses for your beer