Can i re cap twist off bottles

Where the heck are we going? And what's with this hand basket? I used to use leftover Shipyard bottles, which have the threads on them. Figured it wasn't worth the bother so I recycled them.

If it was me, I wouldn't bother. Put too much work, and money, in to the beer to risk it. I just ran across one yesterday that got mixed in with my last batch. It was noticeably less carbonated than the others. I usually recycle twist off bottles. I am afraid of the things that some others have come across such as substandard carbonation due to a poor seal and breaking bottles due to thinner glass.

Just as oscarvan says "Put too much work and money in to the beer to risk it. I have two or three twisties that have made it into the rotation of bottles My other capper has never failed.

Most of my bottles are non-twist-off, but some of them are twist-offs. If you've got access to Sleeman's bottles from Canada , I'd suggest trying them. They're pretty, clear, twist-off, they cap really well, and they come in a fully-enclosing box so your clear bottles are protected from light.

Twist off caps are like caps on wine bottles. They make the product appear cheap. There's a satisfying gratification to using a tool to pop off the top. I recycled twist-off bottles from storebought beverages when I first got started home brewing, but I don't use them any more. The storebought bottles are surprisingly fragile and don't survive heat cycling very well at all.

I've never had that kind of trouble with the thicker pop-cap bottles made for homebrewing. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Reusing twist-off bottles Ask Question. Asked 11 years ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 22k times. Given that at least around here twist-offs are much easier to come by in quantity, I ask: Should twist-offs be avoided? What are their disadvantages?

If one was going to use them, what steps should be taken to minimize their problems? Improve this question. The most common re-used package in the United States is marketed to bars that can reclaim empties.

The distributor then picks them up and returns them to the brewery. These bottles show wear over time and can get down right ugly. Since a big part of good packaging is appearance, ugly bottles are not the best thing from an image point of view and the pressed shirts in marketing probably view this package in a negative light. In Germany there is a standardized half-liter bottle that many breweries use and the logistics of having to get your package back to the brewery is eliminated.

This makes recycling more convenient but prevents custom packages that help sell beer. In recent years even the environmentally proactive Germans have begun using more one-way bottles and recyclable cans. The long and short of returnable glass is that these bottles are becoming more difficult to come by as the popularity of one-way glass continues to increase.

The most important thing to recognize about re-using glass is that bottles fatigue after each use and they have a limited life. One-way bottles are designed for one use and are much lighter than their returnable cousins. This means that the first thing you need to find is a source of one-way bottles with a twist-off neck. I recommend finding a local brewery using this type of glass and asking if you can buy bottles from them.

The price of new glass including the box and six-pack carriers is surprisingly expensive. This includes the case box, 6-pack carriers and delivery to the brewery.

When you go to put a cap on a twist-off bottle you can use a standard style crown and do not need to worry about finding special twist-off crowns. I have heard this rumor before and know that any standard crown will work. What you do need is a capper that does not grab the neck of the bottle when used.

Most hand-held cappers grab the small ring around the perimeter of the neck and use that ring to hold the crowner tight to the bottle. In my experience I have found that this ring on the one-way, twist-off bottles we use breaks when capped with a hand-held capper.