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PET bottles

Post by adamzworld » Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:01 pm

Hopefully this will be a fairly straightforward question for someone to answer. If I go and buy a six pack of sparkling water in 500ml PET bottles, then can I syphon beer straight into the bottles once I've emptied out the contents and added some sugar, or do I still need to sterilise them first?


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Re: PET bottles

Post by LeeH » Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:43 am

I would sanitise them first, but clear PET bottles are pretty poor for beer storage.


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Re: PET bottles

Post by vacant » Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:45 am

I'd not bother sanitising if filling soon after. Before corny kegs, I used 2 ltr clear cola bottles, but these were moved into dark storage after three days and drunk within a couple of months (I assume you're doing this).
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Re: PET bottles

Post by Robwalkeragain » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:37 am

No harm in sterilising, but it's entirely likely that the contents have been pasteurized so should be ok. I can name more than one brewery that don't bother to sterilise empty glass bottles from their warehouse, unless it's rife with bacteria you'd need to be unlucky to pick up infection at that stage.

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Re: PET bottles

Post by adamzworld » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:04 pm

Thanks for all the replies.

My plan is to use Sainsbury's sparkling water bottles and I think they're green so should be okay as I'm not planning to store them for too long.

I'm syphoning most of my ginger beer into a pressure barrel but want to also fill a few bottles so give away to family over Christmas.

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Re: PET bottles

Post by Kingfisher4 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:27 pm

adamzworld wrote:
Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:04 pm
Thanks for all the replies.

My plan is to use Sainsbury's sparkling water bottles and I think they're green so should be okay as I'm not planning to store them for too long.

I'm syphoning most of my ginger beer into a pressure barrel but want to also fill a few bottles so give away to family over Christmas.

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I recall reading that green are only slightly better than clear for UV degradation but that is hop compounds so not sure about ginger beer.

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Re: PET bottles

Post by RobP » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:34 pm

If you're worried it's reasonably easy to put in a cardboard box or wrap with brown paper.

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Re: PET bottles

Post by adamzworld » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:46 pm

Thanks for the suggestions. I've got a sideboard in our convservatory which is nice and cold in the winter so will keep the bottles shut away in a nice cool dark place whilst they condtion.

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