Longies Vs Stubbies

[roverfj1200]

I've always used Coopers PET bottles (700mL).
Is there a great difference between glass and these?

I to use the PET bottles (Brewcraft) for my every day drinking brew and 70 year old tallies for that special brew. The Pet are easy to clean and handle no busted glass. I still can't tell the difference in the beer though.

 

[peas_and_corn]

I started out with stubbies, but I switched to longies after not very long due to impatience more than anything else- while I always had friends to help bottle, making a bottling session quite quick, longies meant half as much washing. Bulk priming also helped with the reduction in work on the day.

I now use big 19L cans (also known as kegs), but when I need to bottle from the keg (I don't bottle batches any more) I use longies because I am:
1- taking a bottle to an adelaide brewclub meeting and there needs to be enough to share around
2- I'm bottling for competition entry, and they always need a longie
3- I'm going to a party, however for that I use a 1.5L grolsch bottle or my 2L Asahi can. That can has gotten me through some good times.



Anyway, after that little tangent, umm, I recommend longies? I personally haven't seen any flavour differences (this is with batches that had not quite enough for a longie left at the end and I used a stubbie), so it's really up to:

1- how much beer you drink at a time. If you find yourself grabbing a second stubbie all the time (which I did), then longies would be a great idea. Conversely if you are constantly pouring out a good portion of a longie because you don't feel like having any more, then stubbies.
2- how lazy you want to be when it comes to bottling. Some people here have collected champagne bottles, and I'm sure at some point the photo of all the 2L aldi coke bottles will show up here eventually.

 

[_HOME_BREW_WALLACE_]

I always do about 10 stubbies when i bottle i always do the first 2 and the last ones right at the end once the tallies are bottled. when theyre ready...... I give em to the father-in-law when he comes over.

 

[brenjak]

I used to do a six pack of stubbies as keepers. They would go into a box to be matured. Dont bother now as it is not worth the time as my tallie supply is growing. Everytime i go to Cairns i buy a carton of Coopes tallies, a carton of Pilsner Urqueel and a carton of DAB plus a few assorted six packs to sample. IThe Coopers are nice solid, thick bottles designed to be reused by the homebrewer i would imagine. I posted a thread earlier today about the broken finger i got last week from an exploding PET container.

 

[brenjak]

I used to do a six pack of stubbies as keepers. They would go into a box to be matured. Dont bother now as it is not worth the time as my tallie supply is growing. Everytime i go to Cairns i buy a carton of Coopes tallies, a carton of Pilsner Urqueel and a carton of DAB plus a few assorted six packs to sample. IThe Coopers are nice solid, thick bottles designed to be reused by the homebrewer i would imagine. I posted a thread earlier today about the broken finger i got last week from an exploding PET container.

Excuse the typo's in my last reply. Like i said, i have a broken finger!