"Frogleg" <frogleg@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:he92iv0k02d1h7arga98m9qel1p0u5rpgv@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:42:55 GMT, "fallnwlf"
> <fallnwlf@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:
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> >But I have read at many sites that normal over the counter empty[/color][/color]
commercial[color=blue][color=green]
> >beer bottles can NOT be used to bottle home brew.[/color]
>
> Just curious. What would one use instead? Flippin' *boughten* beer
> bottles? What would be the advantage? Except to the sellers of "home
> brew supplies." If you can be arrested for causing severe bodily harm
> by whacking someone with a beer bottle that survives as evidence, I'd
> think it would be adequate for containing the original liquid.[/color]

Commercial bottles can indeed be used in homebrewing (nothing illegal about
it that I've ever heard), but the kind of bottles that have screw-off caps
may not survive the recapping process, because the glass is thinner at the
top. Look at, say, a Sam Adams bottle (no screw-threads), and you'll see
that the rim is much thicker and stronger, and better suited to recapping.
I regularly take my empties to my local homebrew supplier and trade him for
stuff I need, and he resells them.

Bill