I started out with long neck bottles. Those are junk. One night it sounded as if some mexican with an uzi had cone wild in my basement. A case of home brew went boom.
I have moved to Groslch and Martinelli bottles to be able to hold the pressure. They do not make boom when they drop or if I bottle too soon and there is excess sugars. I did learn that you can only use them for about 20 cycles before they no longer are able to behave as a pressure vessel. clay > On Jan 26, 2017, at 8:53 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Dropping glass > > When I started bottling wine and cider, I used the bottle most cider makers > use, the Waterloo (St Gobain) W25. It is a traditional brown bottle, and can > be corked for the vino or capped for the cider. The first time I dropped a > bottle on the concrete floor of the processing room while moving bottles from > the filler to the capping stand, I about had heart failure and envisioned > glass everywhere. To my amazement, the bottle bounced, and I caught it on > the rebound. There after, i just tried to catch the bottle on the rebound. > > When I ran out of the bottles, I found a deal on 8 pallets of green bottles > made in meh-he-co. They could be corked or capped, so I bought them. They > were VERY heavy! A case of empty bottles weighed almost as much as a case of > filled W25 bottles! The first time one slipped out of my hand, i just > prepared to catch it on the rebound. Not so. Glass shards everywhere! > Every time I dropped a green one, it shattered. I guess the meh-he-co glass > is not the same quality as the St Gobain glass made in the US of A or our > northern neighbour! > > It was an eye-opening experience about the differences in glass. I have no > idea why the W25 glass is so resilient. Perhaps there is an annealing or > similar stress relieving process that the green ones did not get. The way > the green glass flew, it was evident that it had a lot of internal stress. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
