Bottling with PET bottles - Home Brewing tips in under 5 minutes

When I bottle condition in soda bottle, I find that the pressure expands the bottle under the cap. I sometimes need pliers to get the caps off. Definitely a good seal.

Eh? I think the pressure and co2 from the minor bottle carbonation keeps the effect minimum.

Where do I buy these bottles?

Marvelous hack, thanks lots

Better top up instead of pushing the air out and deforming bottles

I worked this purging air from plastic bottles out for myself, my problem is lack of secondary fermentation in plastic bottles.

Making my first brew tomorrow with coopers Canadian blonde

Best use glass bottles anyway.

Good idea
When I bottle still mead i just fill bottle all the way I use glass for my batch of beer tho I'll use water bottles

Genius.

Some people who were all excited about me brewing and said they would give me bottles crapped out on me... so I went to my parents and got enough soda bottles to go over the 30 glass beer bottles I have. It might be important...I am in the clearing stage. Hahaha. I have a cardboard box to store them in once filled. Thank goodness I went looking for tips BEFORE I started. Thank you for the vid. We will use the PET bottles first. This one was just a kit... I have 2 more kits to do after this. THEN i am going to do the one gallon SMaSH beers and experiment with my hops. I discovered hops can be incredibly cheap by the pound.... except citra of course. :D I might not have purchased by the pound... but I bought of a reputable Canadian supplier that was clearing out last years stock and selling things like centennial and chinook for $3 to $7.50lb. I did not buy though until I did some research and found out that properly stored hops can last numerous years... so I am hop rich atm with almost 4lbs in the freezer. 3 ounces of citra are on the way. Being a newbie and a tightwad was part of the reason I started with kits. Grinders are not at all affordable. Then I discovered that corn mill.... next month I will get one and rig it up to one of my drills inside a bucket with galvanized steel ducting to act as a hopper extender. My goal is simple...good hoppy craft beers without spending a fortune on gear. (I buy used gear as much as possible.) Once I know what hops I like best in what quantity I will be brewing 2 gallon batches. Your vids have helped me so much...from knowing how to hop up a kit down to just having no fear. I went from... my primaries are full so I have to buy more or wait... to... to heck with that nonsense .... I have lots of carboys.... airlocks fit on them just fine.

Hey cheers for that awesome.

So how much sugar do you need then to gas the bottle back and then gas your beer adequately that it doesn't taste flat. Currently I use 3 carbon lollies per 750ml pet bottle and it's only bordering on acceptable?

Does this not cause the beer to under carbonate?

Starting my first brew with the Coopers homebrew kit that comes with these bottles (trying your chocolate vanilla stout recipe). Good tip, will make sure to use it when bottling thanks! :)

Simple but Brilliant tip - just like all the tips you provide Gash 🍺

So how do you do this to glass beer bottles?

Another Great tip Gash ....

Good idea. I have never used PET bottles before.

This would begin the process of weakening the plastic though. These small creases get larger overtime especially after repeated denting/squeezing.
This is a 3 1/2 year old video, so if you are still active I'm curious if you've had any issues with bottles remaining warped. Also, have you had any issues with contamination after this process?

great, simple idea and a big advantage of plastic over glass. i'm using drinking water bottles because they are free and already clean, so bugger all work. anyone else using drinking water bottles?

do you still use plastic pet bottles ? do you reckon they don't carb up as much because they expand a bit unlike glass ?

Great tip - I use PET bottles, and will do this from now on :)

Sweet tip mate, cheers.

I could be wrong, but I don't think the the little bit of O2 in the bottles will ever get into the beer due to the positive pressure generated by the CO2 during carbonation.

Good tip Gash Cheers!

i use my pluto gun hooked up to an empty(sterile) keg , just stick the tip in the bottle and pull the trigger to purge the oxygen out.   Squeezing the bottle would be cheaper and easier tho..good tip m8

Interesting that and have done similar when kegging as Dino did on one of his videos by adding co2 -never had an issue tho with bottles but wondering, do they condition quicker and if so? How about glass bottles? Cheers Hhb

Just a thought on Jens comment further down. By the time you bottle isn't the yeast in an anaerobic state so the oxygen in the neck won't be consumed as Jens stated. If that is the case I wonder if the oxygen is forced back into the liquid under pressure from the CO2 production. If that is true, then your trick of squeezing the oxygen out is even more important. Cheers

Great tip, ill try this next time I bottle. Cheers

Cheers!

yes CO2 is heavier than oxygen we all know that! luckily it also mixes with oxygen or we'd all be dead!

Great tip m8 - but to be fair I've never had any oxidation problems from bottling with my little bottling stick - too much fuss is made of letting air into bottles (and kegs for that matter) - co2 is heavier than air - go figure! :P cheers m8 Kev.

Sorry mate didnt think it was complicated.

Usually you/me/we leave about 3 cm with air on top of the beer in the bottle. The carbonation prosesse will "eat" up the air, as yeast need air to create co2 from sugars in the beer. So I have never had any problems with oxidising when bottle carbonation. If you bottle from force carbonated beer from keg, just let if foam over, like they do in many breweries. Doesn't have to be so complicated: ) (?)

Good way to tell when bottle carb is finished, nice tip Gash

works!

Ha, never thought about that one! Thanks!

Another great tip I'm going to use this on my next batch, cheers

Great tip, Thanks. I've bottled in those a few times and never thought of that before

Good tip man !! Cheers

First !!!