Bottles

Bottles

So far in my brewing i have been happy to use 2 litre plastic bottles, for cider, beer and even my experimental brews they are fine, but with drinks like mead on the go that need to be kept for longer periods and have a lot more effort gone into them i thought i had better investigate glass.

There are some flip top bottles at Aldi's (probably gone by now) that would be fantastic but at a reasonable £2 a bottle i just couldn't afford to buy a big load of them. So i resisted.

Enter luck/karma/god of brewing. Wandered into Sainsburys and looked in their alcohol aisle only to find bottles of Erdinger Wheat Beer for 50p a bottle... i asked why and the stockman said there had been a mix up with stock and as Sainsburys didn't carry them as a line they just wanted rid of them.

Checking the 50cl (500ml) bottles i learnt that the beer inside was bottle conditioned which should mean the good brown glass is safe for my brews to live in.

So i walked out with 16 bottles and told a friend who bought another 12. Took them home and chilled the beer before trying it. Someone up-out-or down there likes me as this wheat beer is light and lovable.

I ended up with a good bit of bottling capacity and lot of nice beer, so brewers and brewers to be... keep those eyes open, good things can happen.

smiles

adam