Choosing the Best Home Brew Beer Bottles

When choosing to make beer at home, each piece of equipment for the brewing process is important according to the sanitation of the system as a whole, the quality of the beer, and the type of dispensing desired once the process is completed. Home brew beer bottles are the most common method of dispensing the beer after brewing it, although there are also home beer kegs that can also be used in a home brewing process.

Bottling

Although there are disagreements as to which home brew beer bottles are the best to use in the process, the largest consensus among home brewers is that glass bottles are the best to use. Even though glass home brew beer bottles can be broken, they can also be used over and over again with new caps and are easy to clean and store. They are also see through and do not add a plastic taste to the beer so that the flavor of the beer stays more pure to the recipe used.

The home brew beer bottles should be a dark color, normally a dark brown or dark green color are the most commonly found on the market. Before starting the home brewing process, the home brew beer bottles must be thoroughly washed and sanitized before being ready for the beer to be poured into them. A bottle brush must be used along with a bleach solution so that every inch of the bottle can be scrubbed and sanitized, thus removing any bacteria that might contaminate the beer when bottled. Usually about forty home brew beer bottles are needed for a common batch of home brewed beer so that there are enough bottles to contain all of the ingredients from the batch.

Since the home brew beer bottles are glass that means that each one will have to be capped by the individuals making the beer. A capping machine that only requires the use of one hand is the best type to buy since that allows the individual to hold onto the bottle while capping it, making it less awkward and more secure. These bottle capping machines and bottle caps can be bought at brew stores or ordered on the internet for fairly inexpensive amounts of money. If home brew beer bottles are not desired, the beer kegs can be bought at the same stores fairly inexpensively, and are often found contained in home brewing kits so that all of the ingredients including the keg and tap are included.