Erdinger Brown Bottles For Bottling?

[Greg2013]

Would these 500ml brown erdinger bottles be suitable for bottling home brew beer/stout etc? :-/ Got a source for them today and also occasionally the brown heavier tiger beer bottles as many as i want whenever, just need a bloody car lol

Oh ya still waiting on another source to come through for bottles used by Dungarvan Brewing Company

[Greg2013]

yes oh mighty one i do indeed, i got them with the kit, a twin handle capper and i think 100 red caps

[Greg2013]

Oh ya my source is also asking reps about beer crates like the ones that hold bulmers bottles though i don't hold out much hope of getting these

[Will_D]

Oh ya my source is also asking reps about beer crates like the ones that hold bulmers bottles though i don't hold out much hope of getting these

Bulmers/magners PINT bottles in crates are returnable to source. Musgraves deposit on a crate plus 12 bottles is €4.10 plus Vat so offer a pub €6 and they MAY talk to you.

The 500ml cider bottles are lighter glass and don't come in plastic crates but are recapable as are most bottles.

The returnable bottles are always heavier duty.

'Tis debatable about the Erdinger/Paulaner/German weizzens as in .de they are returnable but they ship to .ie as non returanable.

I know there are some peeps (used to post on Beir) who bring in the emptys from .de maybe they could weigh them and do a comaprisson?
I will sniff round the empty in the rugby club tomorrow.

[Greg2013]

Thanks Will. I was actually only asking about the crates themselves not the empties, i was only referring to the Bulmers as a gauge to the size i wanted,Guinness same size bottle.

What do ya mean its debateable about the erdinger bottles? Do you mean they are weak or something? I can take all i want of those but currently they are the only Brown bottles that are non returnable.

[Blueshed]

alot of work to remove the labels from the Dungarvan btls.

the Hobgoblin btls dont cap with my capper ?

[RichC]

I discussed this before over on hbt when I was bottling a hefe.  Here's some of the weights I got when checking,
franziskaner hefe 272g
tyskie(i think) 282g
hobgoblin 320g
budvar( green) 335g
fullers London pride 381g
I carbonated a variety of bottles including these to 3.5vols without issue. Notice that the franziskaner was the flimsiest I weighed. I'm sure I read a guy on hbt who had done a co2 test on a bottle of this and got 4vols. Search for a thread called Hefeweizen co2 volume argument

[irish_goat]

Tiger bottles are very good and sturdy (probably the thickest we sell at work) but the labels are very hard to get off and nearly always leave glue residue. Erdinger are fine but probably slightly thinner than regular German ones. I'd not say it's an issue though unless you're making ridiculously carbed beer.

I can get you any number of brown bottles in the Bull and Castle if that's handy for you. We go through a fair amount of different kinds i.e. Irish, English and German.

[Greg2013]

Pm sent goat

[Rats]

98% of my bottles are these ones.Cheap enough and nice to drink.
No problems to date.Very easy to clean.

[Will_D]

That looks like a returnable bottle!

The give away are the two wear lines - near the bottom and at the shoulder. This is caused by the bottles rubbing against each on the various lines as they are washed and filled, washed and filled etc.

One-off bottles don't have these wear lines

[Greg2013]

Thanks rats those look like the Erdinger bottles from what i can see? These bottles are not costing me anything, the crates i suspect will if it comes off. My only problem now is transporting 60 odd bottles our from Dungarvan to Maol a Choirne

[Hop Bomb]

I know there are some peeps who bring in the emptys from .de

I brought 5 crates of these bottles back from Switzerland (I was on tour with my band so I had the van) I only had to pay 4.00e each to cover the crate. They have this cool design screen printed on them. No labels (apart from a tiny thing that seals the swing top)