bottle capper

[OldHooky]

I found this at my local brewstore($47.00). I got tired of breaking bottle tops with my old capper and this looked like a good solution. Plus, I can use it to cork wine bottles when I get around to making wine.

[fretlessman71]

I've got a double lever action capper and I've never broken a bottle head. What am I doing right/wrong? And forgive my ignorance, but what makes this so much better? I'm lost...

[OldHooky]

My old one had three metal hooks that grabbed the bottle flange, and unless it was adjusted just right, it would break off the top of the bottle. I could have bought a hand model, but I plan on making wine at some point. It's overkill for now, but I hate buying things twice. Plus, I like gadgets.

[Tweek]

nice. I like the stand corkers. I dont have one myself but they are nice. It looks like you will need a special attachment to do wine with that one though. Wine corks need to get compressed before they will fit in the bottle, I dont see how this one will do that at least in its current configuration.

[OldHooky]

It comes with that attachment. It also has attachments for larger bottle tops and for champagne corks.

[toneyc]

I hated that danged wing capper I used for my first batch. Everytime I'd cap a bottle, I'd bounce the bottle off the counter top. Talk about a nervous wreck when I got done!!!

That one looks pretty heavy duty, but if you're gonna do wine bottles, you may need that. This is the one I have, if I can figure out how to attach the image....


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Toney.

http://www.stpats.com/images/capperbenchnewred.jpg

[brewmonkey]

I have a sure fire way to NEVER break another bottle.
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Go to kegs! :D

[OldHooky]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by toneyc
[B]I hated that danged wing capper I used for my first batch. Everytime I'd cap a bottle, I'd bounce the bottle off the counter top. Talk about a nervous wreck when I got done!!!

That one looks pretty heavy duty, but if you're gonna do wine bottles, you may need that. This is the one I have, if I can figure out how to attach the image....
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That was the other one they had. I considered it, but I didn't want to have to buy another tool when I make wine.

[mmmBeer...]

Originally posted by brewmonkey
I have a sure fire way to NEVER break another bottle.
.Go to kegs! :D

Damn right! Never looking back...except for the end of the carboy that I can't fit in the keg...

[fuji6100]

actually brewmonkey, I broke MORE bottles AFTER switching to kegs...

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when I threw out about 4 cases of extras :P


Actually, (to the original poster) that's the same capper i have and it works super.

[Bruno_78]

Throw out bottles?????????

Some of us could have used those!

[fuji6100]

Yeah, but would some of you have been willing to pay all that shipping?

Personally I found it to cost only slightly more to buy my favorite store bought beer and save the bottles, rather than buy used or new bottles and pay for shipping. (And that way I got to drink the beer too.)

But most of what I got rid of was bottles that were allowed to get crusty, lighter or thinner bottles, or ones that were a lot shorter than the rest (like guiness bottles).

[Bruno_78]

good point, but anythings gotta be better than the $7 per case that my local shop sells them for, and that doesn't include the beer.

[OldHooky]

I sometimes get the old Sam Adams bottles for the price of the deposit from the guy at the Liquor Store. It's still $2.40, but better than $7.99

[fuji6100]

good point, but anythings gotta be better than the $7 per case that my local shop sells them for, and that doesn't include the beer.

The one time I ordered bottles from my supplier, it cost me $9 to get one case of bottles shipped from Florida to Georgia (At least they were well packed and none broke).

If you can get them for $7 a case at the LHBS, you are probably better off. That's what I figured, anyway, when I tossed them since the only people I know locally that brew had more than enough bottles themselves.

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by Bruno_78
good point, but anythings gotta be better than the $7 per case that my local shop sells them for, and that doesn't include the beer.

Except for the $10.50/case MY LHBS sells them for.... but you get a really nifty box to keep them in. What, you get the same box that I do? Drat....