screw off caps

oconn · Post by **oconn** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 8:16 am

Hi,
I think the answer is no but...I have a Coopers Pale Ale kit to do ( with cascade hop and crushed crystal grain to add to it... I also have 24 coopers pale ale bottles saved. Is it possible to re - use the bottles wit their twist off caps. ( I live in Ireland where we have little hoem brewing/ less twist off coopers pale ale bottles Id hate to throw them out if there is a chance)

Noodles · Post by **Noodles** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 8:38 am

If they're the same as the bottles in Australia you can just cap them as you would for crown seals, no problems.

petesbrew · Post by **petesbrew** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 10:01 am

Surely you'd be able to get some new crown seals (twist off caps) from where you got the can?

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 12:03 pm

To be sure, I have heard of some fellas on here using the caps again. They put them on using a squash ball cut in half

Found it, pacman's idea http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... quash+ball

Cheers

Boonie

TommyH · Post by **TommyH** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 4:40 pm

Is he talking about re-using the caps? I thought he meant just the bottles.

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 4:47 pm

Yeah, that's how I read it too.

oconn,
You can use screw top bottles no worries, if you are using new crown seals simply cap them as you would with a normal bottle, if you are trying to re use the old caps, I believe that is successful as well, but I have never tried that, for the price of new caps it doesn't seem worth the trouble.

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Thursday Aug 23, 2007 4:52 pm

r.magnay wrote:Yeah, that's how I read it too.

oconn,
You can use screw top bottles no worries, if you are using new crown seals simply cap them as you would with a normal bottle, if you are trying to re use the old caps, I believe that is successful as well, but I have never tried that, for the price of new caps it doesn't seem worth the trouble.

You can definately reuse the caps. Have a go next time you open a twist off bottle, they are a bit rough on the hands but you can twist them back down.

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Friday Aug 24, 2007 3:39 am

An old bloke i work with re-uses his screw tops all the time and has no trouble with them going flat.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Friday Aug 24, 2007 12:07 pm

TommyH wrote:Is he talking about re-using the caps? I thought he meant just the bottles.

I read it the other way

Quote "Is it possible to re - use the bottles wit their twist off caps."

When he said "wit their twist off caps", my assumption was he meant plural as he said "Twist off caps " not twist top necks.

I have a circular bottle opener that you can twist the lids on and off with.

Cheers

Boonie

Tipsy · Post by **Tipsy** » Friday Aug 24, 2007 7:19 pm

Rysa wrote:An old bloke i work with re-uses his screw tops all the time and has no trouble with them going flat.

I know two old blokes doing this and have tasted ones beer (ok

)

They both twist them back on the twist tops and one uses a bench capper to put them on to crown seal bottles.

I tried a couple for "research" (The old guys pressured me)
It is a lot easier to buy caps

pacman · Post by **pacman** » Saturday Aug 25, 2007 10:08 pm

As Boonie wrote earlier, I posted some time ago that I used to re-use twist bottle caps by simply screwing them back on using a circular bottle opener. If I couldn't lay my hands on that gadget, half a squash ball did the job. Never had a flat bottle. Never needed a bottle capper.

Have since graduated to Schwelmer 500ml swingtops, so still don't have a bottle capper.

Need to sanitise the caps, whichever method you use.