Bottling with liter pop bottles...?

I made my first batch of beer. I bottled in liter pop bottles and it seems to keep carbonation and the beer hasn't suffered for it. I wrap the bottles in black plastic garbage bags, too. Are pop (PET) bottles practiced in homebrewing???

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silverfox
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I routinely use old-style glass Pepsi bottles. They are designed for re-use, and stand up well. I have used plastic bottles without any problems, also. I never tried keeping the beer for several years in them, though.

Ray Drouillard

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Ray Drouillard

: > I made my first batch of beer. I bottled in liter pop bottles and it : seems : > to keep carbonation and the beer hasn't suffered for it. I wrap the : > bottles in black plastic garbage bags, too. Are pop (PET) bottles : > practiced in homebrewing??? : : I routinely use old-style glass Pepsi bottles. They are designed for : re-use, and stand up well. I have used plastic bottles without any : problems, also. I never tried keeping the beer for several years in : them, though. : : : Ray Drouillard : OK .... two questions:

a) How long will will Home Brew last inside a plastic bottle? b) How do you develop the power to leave beer undrunken for over a year?

Cheers T

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Tesrof

This is a much debated question. Personally, 12 or 16 oz bottles keep well for a couple months. After that they begin to get an off taste (oxidation thru the plastic) and eventually become undrinkable to me.

Larger 2 liter bottles seem to keep longer. I drank from one of those after a couple of years (it was lost/forgotten) and it was drinkable (although the oxidation taste was present).

Now, the above is for re-used PET soda bottles - there are some specially coated PET bottles made for the homebrew market that may last longer.

Hey, just bottle a batch in glass and plastic and label pairs of the bottles (one glass, one PET) to open and compare monthly over the next

18 months! :)

The only way for me seems to be to hide it somewhere and forget it! :)

Derric

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Derric

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Based on question (b), I would have to say that you won't hit the limit. I made a whole bunch of beer or my wedding, and some of the stuff that I already had hanging around made it to a couple family reunions -- and they are spaced a year apart.

I have heard of oxygen migrating through the plastic, but I don't see how that can happen fast enough to cause a problem. I had beer stored in five gallon 'beer balls' for a couple years, and they never went bad.

I made a WHOLE BUNCH for my wedding. Then, my FIL insisted on offering some 'domestic stuff' (What could be more domestic than homebrew?) Some people really liked my stuff, but the boozers on his side of the family got wasted on swill and left the good stuff alone.

So, I ended up with something like thirty of forty gallons of home brew. Since my wife doesn't drink beer, and my favorite drinking buddy at the time (an exchange student) went home, I was left with more than I could consume.

I recently finished everything off, so I plan on brewing up a couple batches as soon as we move in to our new old (1900) house.

Ray

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Ray Drouillard

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Perhaps it was light, not oxygen. I keep my beer in cardboard boxes, so they are totally in the dark until they are used. I even put the original cardboard box over the carboys when they are fermenting.

Ray

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Ray Drouillard

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