Will 2L ASDA Smartprice still water bottles hold pressure?

[sonicated]

I would like to brew a lager kit but I havent got any bottles. Will the 2L ASDA Smartprice still water bottles hold pressure? They look like normal PET bottles. I primed my last Coopers lager with 160grams of sugar which was at the right carbonation level so I don't want to risk any bottle bombs!

I could get the fizzy bottles but I would also like to use the water to brew as I would need to treat my tap water with a campden tablet.

[Benson_JV]

I really would not like to chance that...
The general consensus is that if the bottle held fizzy stuff, it'll be fine, if not, don't chance it.

[sparky Paul]

They are okay, they are the same bottles as used for the fizzy stuff.

In general, any PETs that are round and straight sided are okay.

[Scotty]

yes, absoloutley fine. I've been using them for 6 months (not the same bottles each time though) without a single problem

[yashicamat]

I have used them too (well, the Tesco still water ones) with no problems. As above, 99% sure they are the same bottles as for the fizzy water.

[Benson_JV]

Okay, that shut me up
I thought that they were different bottles being Still.

[Graham]

PET with the star-fish-shaped indented base are the ones meant to hold pressure, but I suspect that all the star-fish-shaped ridges do is prevent the bottom of the bottle bowing out so it remains standing upright under pressure. Bottles with the inverted dish-shaped base are, I guess, liable to fall over when pressure builds up.

[Capper20]

I used some Sainsburys 2L fizzy water bottles for some very fizzy white cider some time back and they were absolutely fine. I have only seen one of these bottles blow once and that was when one fell off a checkout and landed on the lid, went off like a rocket.