Plastic Bottles

[Stomach]

Hi,

another newbie question.

I am planning on bottleing some brews in the future. I have collected together quite a few glass beer bottles, but I have wondered if the 500ml coke bottles are ok to use as well? Do they hold the pressure or taste as good as a glass bottle?

many thanks

Matt

[BoozeMuse]

I use 500ml clear plastic bottles and apart from them being a pain to clean and sterilise they have worked fine for me. No exploding bottles and you get the added bonus of being able to squeeze the bottles to see if the priming has worked.

All I would be careful of is keeping them covered so the light doesn't spoil the beer. I keep mine in a cardboard box for their week in the warm (in the kitchen) and then once I put them in the garage, lined up on the shelves, I cover them with old towels.

[OldConkerwood]

Hi, Ive just put 40pints of burton bridge porter into 2ltr PET pop bottles for conditioning.( as BoozeMuse says about the priming squeeze & mine havegot a great "Boing" sound when I tap em)
The idea being to cool the beer to 4c in the fridge before syphoning into 500ml PET pop bottles, this is supposed to work but who knows whats gonna happen.
The only drawback i can find, is that PET bottles are gas pemeable so the shelf life is not as good as glass bottles (shelf life. glug glug,no worries there)! research is apparently underway as china's beer production is on the up and is spreading to more european brewers,the quest to perfect plastic.
Barnie.

[Stomach]

Cheers Boozemuse and Oldconkerwood!

Thats a great help! I will take your tips on and carry on collecting plastic bottles to boost my glass collection!!

Cheers

Matt