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Will flip top beer bottles hold high amounts of preasure?

Asked by Zaxwar91 (225points) April 5th, 2008

I’m doing some experimenting with certain types of alcoholic beverages. Some still, while other are carbonated. would a flip top beer bottle have the same effect as a champagn bottle when it came down to holding preasure, or would it shatter like other cheap bottles

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samkusnetz's avatar

champaign and other wine bottles are much thicker than beer bottles, so i would proceed with cuyion if I were you.

maybe more importantly, how are you getting the top on? unless you’ve got some industrial crimper, your caps might not be tight enough to withstand the pressure and will pop off before thebottle breaks.

Zaxwar91's avatar

thanks for the advce, but i add sugar to the bottles before i cap them, so that it SLIGHTLY resarts the fermentation process, causing carbonation. I dont add that much sugar, and i dont want to spend that much money on champaign bottles. And the flip top bottles that i was thinking about using arent that hard to use, and the metal binding would stop the cap from flying off. But would the flip top withstand the pressure, i dont want to waste a good bottle.

samkusnetz's avatar

oh! flip top like with the ceramic little thing, with a gasket? i misunderstood. i think you might be in the clear with this one… what are you brewing? if it’s in the beer family, but just with some sugar in, i think probably this is safe.

Zaxwar91's avatar

thanks, ill try it

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If anyone else has anything to add, please type hear.

gooch's avatar

Yes they do just fine I have used old beer bottles with flip tops for bottling my beer. I add my sugar to my fermented wort in a bucket then bottle my beer. It will carbonate naturally. If you put too much sugar your bottle may blow from over pressuring as the sugar is converted to more alchol and carbon dioxide.

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