Which bottles can I use?

[Prozac]

you can always re-use Grolsch bottles-i.ve got forty that i got off e-bay for a tenner-have yet to use them though

I was in Ikea yesterday and they have 1L Grolsch type bottle but they were £1.50 each!!
I recently returned from Holland (home of Grolsch) and could buy it at about £13 for a proper heavyduty crate containing 16x 450ml bottles.... the crate and bottles all had a deposit included in the £13.... I must be the only person to return from the continent with 2x empty crates of Grolsch bottles

They are now full of my Coopers Aussie Bitter

[Dill]

I use the Magners and the Bulmers cider bottles, the labels come of easy with a quick soak in hot water and soda crystals, they hold a pint and take the cap well. But make sure you give each bottle a visual check as I have come across two that had a hairline crack down the side of the seam, this looks like it probably happened in the production of the bottles as the two cracks were in exactly the same place. Mind you I can’t grumble, two faulty out of about one hundred and fifty bottles can’t be that bad.
I have also used the Coors small bottles (300ml I think) and Bud bottles for bottling a strong barley wine and haven’t encountered any problems with those either. Someone said Bud bottles are too thin but I had them lying around so I used them as I prefer barley wine in small bottles.
I also bought some "Grolsch" type bottles of an ex homebrewer which a had a best before date of april 1989 on the label, (don't know why he left the labels on) cant remember the name of the the beer what was in them but for nearly twenty years old these bottles are the "Dogs Bo#~+~ks" only wish I could come across some more of them

[StrangeBrew]

I've just upped my bottle count by drinking my way through 40 Tim Taylor Landlords. No, not all in one go.
I had to try and convince the wife that I was buying them for the bottle and not the liquid within...don't think it worked though.
Labels come off so easily and they cap well.

[booldawg]

Magners/Bulmers bottles are ideal. Strong, brown and takes a crown cap. As they are in plentiful supply they can be scrouged from most pubs/clubs.

Also they are 568ml so you'll be able to pour a full pint with holding the sediment back quite easily.

[Stonechat]

My favourite commercial bottles for homebrew use Fuller's ones.

They are strong, made of brown glass, the labels soak off easily and they are easy to use a capper on.

The extra bonus is the beer tastes good.

[ADDLED]

My favourite commercial bottles for homebrew use Fuller's ones.
They are strong, made of brown glass, the labels soak off easily and they are easy to use a capper on.
The extra bonus is the beer tastes good.

Note to Self:..... dont throw away Fullers bottles...

[StrangeBrew]

Landlord/Magners/Bulmers are a better shape for pouring!

[wetdog]

I've been buying grolsch recently for the bottles
how long have they been using plastic stoppers - I thought they were ceramic?

[Garth]

I noticed that on some Grolsch style bottles from Lidl/Aldi, chaepo plastic instead of ceramic.

I'm gonna look like a right chav with plastic ones on me shoes now......

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[PMH0810]

Trying not to hijack the thread... I am knocking up a Brewferm Grand Cru shortly and wish to bottle half(ish) in pints and half in 330ml(ish) bottles.

This is only to make the 15-16 pint brewlength last a little longer.

Which (if any) half pint sized bottles can I cap and use safely (preferably ones which also can be crown capped and also tip their hats at protecting from light-strike)?

[Garth]

hmm, half sized bottles, what about these, all are brown and are mostly 330ml:-

Robinsons Old Tom, Duvel, SNPA, Anchor Steam, Coopers, Orval (nice, different shaped bottle), Guiness Foreign Extra, mostly available from Tosco's...

[PMH0810]

So the only drawback with the Tosco supply is the bottles come full already? Sweet.

Thank you - looks like a supply of Orval is in order - not only for the vase-like bottle but because it's cracking ale!

[alefric]

stangebrew is right i've used Taylors bottles and they're perfect...no problems with two handled crown corker.......as for collecting 40 in one go......BE CAREFUL

[fraggle]

has anyone any experience using the old style beer bottles?
the 2 pint jobbies with ceramic/plastic screw top which you put a orange rubber washer on.at the mo i use cornies a kk & plastic bottles,but id like to use these for some belgian beers i intened leaving for a few months.does anyone else use them?