Advantages Of Plastic Beer Bottles Over Glass Ones
By: Bimol Bee
Submitted: 2011-11-23 08:50:07 | Word Count: 522
If you prefer to make beer in home surrounding you probably know that each item of equipment in the brewing process is extremely important, beginning from the sanitation of the whole system and finishing with the quality of the beer package, as well as the kind of beer bottles one uses. Plastic beer bottles are probably the most widely used in distributing the beer after the process of brewing. However, home beer kegs are also used in the brewing process in home surrounding.
Bottling viewpoints
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There're different viewpoints as to what kind of beer bottles is the most suitable and useful for home beer brewing, but there is a common opinion concerning this issue among the majority of home brewers who consider plastic beer bottles to be the best ones to use. They usually explain this with the following reasons:
1. Plastic beer bottles can be used many times, either with the usage of old or new caps. They are also extremely easy to clean and store.
2. Glass beer bottles often and easily break, and if there's still the process of fermenting taking place inside the bottle, the latter can even explode.
3. Plastic beer bottles are transparent so you can see through them.
Probably, the only disadvantage of plastic bottles is that beer can acquire a plastic taste, while the flavor of the beer stays more clear to the recipe used if it's kept in glass bottles.
Things to be considered
It's recommended to select the dark-colored plastic beer bottles. In the market dark brown bottles are usually found. Before starting bottling, the plastic beer bottles should be properly washed and sanitized. Only then beer can be poured into them. It's better to use a bottle push and a bleach solution in order to sanitize and scrub each inch of the bottle. It's extremely important to get rid of any bacteria that could spoil the bottled beer. Before bottling beer ensure that you have enough bottles to use. A high-quality microbrewery kit offers enough bottles necessary for one batch. Nevertheless, it's better to check before starting the process of brewing.
Plastic beer bottles should be capped
Some plastic beer bottles have screw caps, while others require a capping device. The high-rate capping machines need the use of one hand and it's rather good as it allows you to hold the bottle while capping it. It will make you less clumsy and more secure. These bottle capping machines can be purchased at bottle caps brew stores or in online shops for rather reasonable prices. It's recommended to buy Cooper plastic beer bottles.
Some Other bottling suggestions
Beer kegs can be also used for home brewed beer. Besides, they're inexpensive and some beer kits offer a beer keg instead of plastic beer bottles containing all of the ingredients and the tap. Two producers of this kind of microbreweries include the Beermachine and MrBeer. One can pour directly from the plastic beer keg that was used to make beer in. So, one can't brew a new batch before emptying it. This is onother reason why people prefer using plastic beer bottles.
