Willy Weizenbier Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 (edited) Hi, Is there any way to re-use my old Coopers Pale Ale 375ml bottles with the screw top? Curious to know if sanitizing and re-using the bottles and metal screw tops will work or if they're no longer air-tight. Anyone tried this? Cheers! Edited June 19 by Willy Weizenbier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 40 minutes ago, Willy Weizenbier said: Hi, Is there any way to re-use my old Coopers Pale Ale 330ml bottles with the screw top? Curious to know if sanitizing and re-using the bottles and metal screw tops will work or if they're no longer air-tight. Anyone tried this? Cheers! Hey Willy, welcome to the forum. Yep you can use the old screw type bottles, I have a few oof the pale and pacific pale in my collection. I use a bench bottle capper like this You can use those perfectly well, just need a bottle opener. If you have kept the old screw top lids, you can re use those as well (sanitise, let dry) and screw them on hard, either way works 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gyldenvand Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 I did not know this. I've never bothered to save screw cap bottles because I didn't think they could be reused. Frankly, by now I've got a few hundred regular crown cap bottles in reserve, so I don't need to save any more, but it's still handy info to have. Slainte! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thagomizer Posted June 21 Report Share Posted June 21 I have been advised that the 12-oz. twist-off (screw-top) bottles were unsafe (to re-use) due to weakness of the glass. If you over-prime them a little bit, they can explode. Longnecks, which are crown-capped, are made of thicker glass. It may be that Aussie-made screw-top bottles are more robust. Many years ago, I did have a bad experience with a batch of cider bottled with twist-off caps. After that, I bought a hydrometer and acquired better bottles. But I had a pantry with shards of glass embedded in the drywall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted June 21 Report Share Posted June 21 6 hours ago, Thagomizer said: I have been advised that the 12-oz. twist-off (screw-top) bottles were unsafe (to re-use) due to weakness of the glass. If you over-prime them a little bit, they can explode. Longnecks, which are crown-capped, are made of thicker glass. It may be that Aussie-made screw-top bottles are more robust. Many years ago, I did have a bad experience with a batch of cider bottled with twist-off caps. After that, I bought a hydrometer and acquired better bottles. But I had a pantry with shards of glass embedded in the drywall. They are thinner in the neck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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