Ogri
Well-Known Member
Went to bottle a 2.5 gallon batch of Dopplebock last night and as soon as I tried to cap the first bottle I realised I was going to have to come up with, and switch to, a hasty back up plan.
I'd been harvesting my empty bottles of Wychwood brewery's HobGoblin, Wychcraft, Fiddler's Elbow and Goliath for bottling a batch and last night was supposed to be their debut. Also, yesterday was my first time bottling using glass bottles and a capper, successfully bottling a 2.5 gallon batch of IPA a couple of hours earlier. Soon realised that it wasn't going to happen. Not last night anyway. The problem is that these bottles have a really extended, spherical-ish, section running down the neck that's totally different from the Chimay, Rochefort, Maredsous, Carolus, Duvel, Bishops Finger, Spitfire, Fuller's etc etc, every other beer bottle I've got.
The clamp part of my winged bottle capper hooks on half way down the, sort of, spherical shaped section and just slides up and off so there's no pressure coming down on the cap to crunch it closed. I'm wondering if, other than a bench capper, there's any other less expensive cappers that'll work with these bottles?
Anyone out there that's used the Wychwood Brewery bottles for homebrew??
I'd been harvesting my empty bottles of Wychwood brewery's HobGoblin, Wychcraft, Fiddler's Elbow and Goliath for bottling a batch and last night was supposed to be their debut. Also, yesterday was my first time bottling using glass bottles and a capper, successfully bottling a 2.5 gallon batch of IPA a couple of hours earlier. Soon realised that it wasn't going to happen. Not last night anyway. The problem is that these bottles have a really extended, spherical-ish, section running down the neck that's totally different from the Chimay, Rochefort, Maredsous, Carolus, Duvel, Bishops Finger, Spitfire, Fuller's etc etc, every other beer bottle I've got.
The clamp part of my winged bottle capper hooks on half way down the, sort of, spherical shaped section and just slides up and off so there's no pressure coming down on the cap to crunch it closed. I'm wondering if, other than a bench capper, there's any other less expensive cappers that'll work with these bottles?
Anyone out there that's used the Wychwood Brewery bottles for homebrew??