Home Brew Question

[Urban Sports]

Just bought a homebrew kit, I did some years ago but can't remember how I stored it once it was ready.

Does it have to be in glass bottles or will plastic pop bottles do?



ETA: Could I just re-cap some used beer bottles?

Edited by Urban Sports on Saturday 13th November 13:02

[mrsxllifts]

We did both without any problems. Only problem is the used pop bottles loose the sparkle when they are opened the first time and once opened it can 'turn' quite quickly, but if its going to be drunk in one that doesn't matter!

Wilkos do cheap caps and a capper which did the job on pint and stubbie size bottles.

[mrsxllifts]

We did both without any problems. Only problem is the used pop bottles loose the sparkle when they are opened the first time and once opened it can 'turn' quite quickly, but if its going to be drunk in one that doesn't matter!

Wilkos do cheap caps and a capper which did the job on pint and stubbie size bottles.

[Urban Sports]

Cheers

I'm in the process of obtaining glass bottles, I've bought a capper, I'll use the plastic ones as reserve bottles!!

[mrsxllifts]

We had a quiet word with the owner of our local indian restaurant who kept us the large Cobra bottles, we soon had enough!

[jas xjr]

How good is the finished product? I drink Stella or anything that is 5% .

[mrsxllifts]

Depends on the kit you use as to finished quality, cheap kits are ok but as I said above it does turn quite quickly once the bottle is opened to drink so you can't really use it as supping liquid but as rocket fuel, its fine. We added a lot more sugar than the recipe required so the alcohol level was higher than labelled. We topped out at 10%! Didn't taste too great but after the first half you didn't give sh!t! We have done a few ales and ciders which have been more pallettable. If you are wanting to give it a go, drop us a line, you can borrow our kit.

[jas xjr]

I would want it to be tasty. Where we live when we are working everything is expensive. I would also get a buzz from brewing my own beer. The only downside would be drinking more

[Engineer1]

Plastic or glass bottles are fine and in most cases the glass bottles can be directly recycled so drink bottled beer for a while to get your bottles. If you buy the right beers the bottle with beer is not much more, or atleast that's what I told the wife. Watch using barrels as they are a great way to land up with a large quantity off beer.