Well I'm finally migrating some of my output from my beloved and faithful ALDI 2L PET bottles to 750ml PET. At the same time I have been collecting several dozen Bavaria green tallie bottles because they are great for capping, being crown seal not twist (and please keep them so Mr Bavaria). They are only $11 for 3 so good Euroswill for the price.
They are also verry pretty and just the job for decanting a lager into, to swig from the bottle as the perfect lawnmower beer, take visiting to impress people or put in a comp etc. However they are 660 ml as opposed to 750 ml and therefore a bit 'non standard' for Australian bottles.
The other night I wanted to take some clear Bribie Bitter to the BABBS meeting so I chilled some 750 PET of my Bribie Bitter Melbourne Bitter wannabe, and carefully decanted into Bavaria 660 ml bottles, expecting some wastage obviously. Virtually the whole PET went into the glass bottle and I had to stop to avoid the yeast bullet going in as well. Hmm what's going on.
So just now I did an experiment with a PET 750, a xxxx 750 and a Bavaria 660.
The PET is at a fairly typical meniscus level and the volume as shown has been transferred to each of the glass bottles.
So allowing for withholding a few ml of sediment when decanting from PET to glass the greenie seems to be the go (it would reduce that high meniscus in the photo to a normal one). At only 660 that surprises me because you would think that 660 is a bit pissy compared to our usual 750, but I'm glad I did the experiment. Looks like I'll be drinking some more Bavaria for the time being till I get my desired stock of bottles up :beerbang:
Currently cold conditioning a brew that I'll bottle 'on clear' and use the greenies for the whole brew and use them as lawnmower swiggers.
They are also verry pretty and just the job for decanting a lager into, to swig from the bottle as the perfect lawnmower beer, take visiting to impress people or put in a comp etc. However they are 660 ml as opposed to 750 ml and therefore a bit 'non standard' for Australian bottles.
The other night I wanted to take some clear Bribie Bitter to the BABBS meeting so I chilled some 750 PET of my Bribie Bitter Melbourne Bitter wannabe, and carefully decanted into Bavaria 660 ml bottles, expecting some wastage obviously. Virtually the whole PET went into the glass bottle and I had to stop to avoid the yeast bullet going in as well. Hmm what's going on.
So just now I did an experiment with a PET 750, a xxxx 750 and a Bavaria 660.
The PET is at a fairly typical meniscus level and the volume as shown has been transferred to each of the glass bottles.
So allowing for withholding a few ml of sediment when decanting from PET to glass the greenie seems to be the go (it would reduce that high meniscus in the photo to a normal one). At only 660 that surprises me because you would think that 660 is a bit pissy compared to our usual 750, but I'm glad I did the experiment. Looks like I'll be drinking some more Bavaria for the time being till I get my desired stock of bottles up :beerbang:
Currently cold conditioning a brew that I'll bottle 'on clear' and use the greenies for the whole brew and use them as lawnmower swiggers.