safe glass bottles

[brysie]

hi again all.

just bottled coopers lager recently using the plastic bottles in the kit. all nice and easy and happily undergoing secondary ferment and clearing nicely.
but, having read many of the threads on here, i have to agree that you just cant beat popping the top of a cold glass bottle.
this got me wondering what the various schools of thought were on different glass bottles?
are ordinary lager bottles that the supermarket use suitable? especially as some of them are running excellent deals on cheap xmas offers such as sainsburys
doing 18 bottles of export for 7 quid. enjoy the lager...18 free bottles. you can see my way of thinking cant you?

any thoughts?

[randomdave]

I began my bottle quest awhile ago, I drink san miguel or perroni both bottles are 660ml bottles. I now have over 40 an I have been using those now for the last 3 kits ive made up an not had any problems at all.

The one bit of advice i would offer is, dont reuse bottles that have scratches or chips in.

Id say that the export bottles (im assuming you mean carlsberg) should be ok as they are quite thick and CB is quite fizzy. For me they would be too small but if it works for you its all good.

[steve_flack]

If the bottles aren't brown it's a good idea to keep them in the dark as light can pass through the glass and make the beer 'skunky'. The best bottles are thick brown ones but unless you're going mad on priming sugar you can use most types.

[randomdave]

Yeah skunking can be a problem with green an clear bottles. I have a mix of green an brown (the San miguel are ideal cos they are big an brown) But i keep my beer in a cupboard anyway conditioning so its all good.