Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
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biker_billy
Re: Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
Thanks for that Paul - good tip, I hadnt thought of it!
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minceypies
Re: Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
Hi, im new to this beer making malarky, i started my 1st kit on monday, (its now thursday) and the yeast head has almost all disappeared, i tested a sample with a hydrometer and its not quite there yet but hopefully in a day or 2 it will be ready for bottling. ive been reading lots of threads to try and find the best way to store the brew during priming, one guy swears by using PETS for secondary fermentation then transferring to glass bottles as it carbonates better and helps further reduce the sediment before bottling, however ive read a thread on here that says that priming the brew before bottling can leave a flat beer once matured. just wondering if its just trial and error?? shall i just bottle it in glass bottles straight away? how much sediment accumulates during priming? apologies for all the questions, im sure you have heard it all before but there is so many contradicting threads im not sure what to do!!!
any help will be much appreciated
ps. its a Geordie Yorkshire Bitter kit that im making, it was a bit of an impulse thing starting it but im quite looking forward to the results and trying more in the future.
Cheers
Dave
any help will be much appreciated
ps. its a Geordie Yorkshire Bitter kit that im making, it was a bit of an impulse thing starting it but im quite looking forward to the results and trying more in the future.
Cheers
Dave
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Geezah
Re: Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
My first beer brew, I just siphoned off the beer in to Magners / Bulmers bottles and added a teaspoon of plain white sugar to them before capping.
Started drinking them 2 weeks after bottling them and the first few was 'sparkling' not fizzy with a good head.
Now, i'm in to week 4 they are maturing mice, the flavour has improved and I get a nice head on my pint.
There is a light covering of sediment on the bottom of the bottle and the longer you leave them the more solid it becomes.
I just tend to pour steadily, try not to let the beer wash back down the bottle to disturb the sediment, and stop pouring as soon as I see the pour going cloudy.
My latest brew, i'll be putting 100g of sugar desolved in a cup of boiled water in to a secondary bucket, then siphoning off my beer in to it, then using a 'little bottler' on the tap to fill me bottles.
Glass all the way, no messing around.
Started drinking them 2 weeks after bottling them and the first few was 'sparkling' not fizzy with a good head.
Now, i'm in to week 4 they are maturing mice, the flavour has improved and I get a nice head on my pint.
There is a light covering of sediment on the bottom of the bottle and the longer you leave them the more solid it becomes.
I just tend to pour steadily, try not to let the beer wash back down the bottle to disturb the sediment, and stop pouring as soon as I see the pour going cloudy.
My latest brew, i'll be putting 100g of sugar desolved in a cup of boiled water in to a secondary bucket, then siphoning off my beer in to it, then using a 'little bottler' on the tap to fill me bottles.
Glass all the way, no messing around.
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minceypies
Re: Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
Well, my brew is bottled as of last night. I used the secondary bucket with a little bottler. Went vry smoothely and it seems to be starting to clear nicely in the bottles. The reading on the hydrometer was borderline but it had stopped fermenting a few days so i thought id just go for it and with a bit of luck i wont have any exploding bottles ;-S. Just need to be patient now, which will be tough, but im gonna give it at least 4 weeks. Cant wait to try it )
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jason123
Re: Can I use Glass Lager Bottles?
Just to get back to the original thread.
Having had a bottle bomb in the garage I've had a serious re think on what bottles to use and will only go for proper brewing bottles of the 1 pint brown standard variety. Most of the bottles that an ale comes in from the supermarket are good for re-using but I'd be very wary of anything that feels like it's too thin walled. If in doubt, chuck it out.
Having had a bottle bomb in the garage I've had a serious re think on what bottles to use and will only go for proper brewing bottles of the 1 pint brown standard variety. Most of the bottles that an ale comes in from the supermarket are good for re-using but I'd be very wary of anything that feels like it's too thin walled. If in doubt, chuck it out.