As stated No, Pressure issues for sure, even if some have been lucky
Also green (clear?) glass / P.E.T. is going to leave your beer open to light strike unless you use rho\tetra Iso extract.
Silly question perhaps but whats wrong with BEER bottles?
Here is a tip for everyone dont use this http://www.online-calculators.co.uk/volume...indervolume.php to calculate volume
Just checked my "100lt" 500x500mm
This one works http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/...ds/cylinder.php
If you are worried about suck-back, yes we all somtimes forget, dont put water in at all!
Louis pasteur (the pasteuriser guy) showed that microorganisms cannot enter through a tortuous path (say an airlock) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur this experiment (scroll down to germ theory)...