PET vs glass.

[Bribie G]

Bottles made specially for beer have a layer of a related plastic sandwiched in, that reduces oxygen permeability. I've never had problems with the brown beer style bottles.
Before I went to kegging I used soft drink 2L and 1.25L bottles that made good little Mini-kegs but I wouldn't use them for long term storage or maturation.

This year I've decided to go all-glass for my competition entries as some of them will be matured for up to 3 months. This means having to buy and drink a fair amount of Coopers Sparkling. Oh the humanity.

 

[jayjt29]

I know its been said before, but I've had no issues with carbonation in PET, must be the seals or under primed, or as you say to eager to drink them

Cheers
Jay

 

[Yob]

This year I've decided to go all-glass for my competition entries as some of them will be matured for up to 3 months. This means having to buy and drink a fair amount of Coopers Sparkling. Oh the humanity.

Commiserations

I've recently gone the other direction, even gave my capper away. It's either growler / keg for home use or PET for comp entries.

 

[decr]

A bit late into the conversation but I've never had any issues carbing up in PET. I use 1.25-2l soft drink bottles for all my brews, hell the cider comes out overcarbonated (priming with juice, my fault etc), pouring that into a pint you get half cider half froth at worst.

I'm not too sure about conditioning or storing brews in the plastic, mine seem to disappear before I get to that point...

 

[Grainer]

Ask Yob.. he's an expert on this