Blue Bottles

[eddiefebuary]

Anybody know of a source for blue beer bottles? I've seen the dark brown/amber ones on-line etc, but I want something different in my refrigerator.
I'm a newbie and I'm starting to gather all my supplies. Thanks for any leads.

[paul84043]

EZ Cap has blue, you can find them at pretty much any brew supply place.
I have blue, green and even some pretty old browh Grolsch bottles that my sister in law found at a swap meet. The different colors are cool.
I actually tried for about one batch to keep them separated, but gave up quickly...

[toneyc]

I swear I've seen cobalt blue bottles at both AustinHomebrew and St. Pat's, but I can't find them on either web page now.

:confused:
Toney.

[atxf4i]

I've seen then at AHS, and their site has 1/2 liter fliptops in colbalt blue for $29.99 for 12. You may be able to call for other options clicky (http://www.austinhomebrew.com/)


Green bottles are suppose to effect the taste, are the blue better or worse? Is there a quality hiarchy as to which is best to bottle? Clear, green, blue then brown/amber? Would it make that much of a difference?

Sorry to hi-jack your thread.

Dale

[YamahaXS]

look here... I don't think you need to worry too much yet Toney.

link (http://www.beer-wine.com/b_bottles.htm)

[tallmikeG]

www.beer-wine.com (http://www.beer-wine.com) is my local HBS, and they're great people! They actually used to run a brewery in Merrimack, NH, but i didn't get into why it's not around anymore. I highly recommend their chocolate cherry porter and hop-head IPA kits!

[eddiefebuary]

No problem Dale. It's still related....somewhat. I actually had the same question too. I figured though as long as the bottle was colored and blocked some of the light it was better. I was told to stay away from clear because it lets in light which can effect the beer. Make sense?

[fretlessman71]

As far as bottle color goes, brown is best, followed by blue, green (do I have those two backwards?), and then clear. This is really only for people selling bottled beer, however; most people don't subject their homebrew to bright sunlight and flourescent bulbs for hours at a time, day in, day out. I would imagine that as long as you're keeping your brew out of direct light until you drink it you won't have a problem. In this case, clear would be kind of cool so you could watch the beer change as it is bottle conditioned... although you'd have to impart a little light to it in order to do that. May not be worth the risk....

[Richard English]

In the "good old days" when logic tended to prevail over emotions, bottle colours were related to the style of the bottle's contents. Blue bottles were reserved for poisons and this is why the colour is rarely used in the UK even now for bottles containing potable liquids.

Maybe we could suggest to the fizz-beer makers that thay adopt blue for the bottles containing their execrable concoctions which might then act as a warning as to the taste of the liquid within!

[paul84043]

That's very interesting, I never thought about that....

I don't worry too much about the bottles I use, the only real "bad" bottles that I have are a bunch of Corona bottles, they are harder to cap and of course, clear.
I keep all of my beer in boxes, they never see the light of day, or any other light for that matter until they go into the refrigerator.

[YamahaXS]

well, blue might be appropriate for a very strong XXX beer. :D