Bottle Capper

Bottling is an essential part of the brewing process. After bottling your beer must rest for at least a week to complete the reaction with the yeast and create carbonation. Bottling is the most widely used is made with glass bottles capped, but there are other options. Each option has its own advantages. Understanding these benefits will help you choose the type of bottling is best for you. "

Plastic Bottles

Bottling in plastic is fairly new. One of the advantages of plastic is that you can take several locations, including the beach, and you never have to worry about breaking the bottle. Although in many ways, they are just as effective as glass, they are more likely to let the oxygen get into the bottle. Over time, the son by the cover fret creating a path for air to reach the beer. Also, if you decided to store your beer for more than a few months, the oxygen will start to penetrate the plastic PET bottles.

Glass bottles

This is the most common and most traditional way of bottling your homebrew. Because you can reuse glass bottles and again, this method is a reasonable low price per bottle. You need to invest in a capper, but other than that the only cost is buying caps for each batch. Because you can reuse the bottles, you can also use old beer bottles that you purchased. An advantage of this is that there is a variety of different types of bottles. You can collect bottles of different shape or color for different beers. In my opinion, this is really cool for creating a variety pack for friends. Also, I think that beer tastes a bit better if glass bottle rather than plastic.

Keg

If you keg your beer, you'll lose the convenience factor, but in return you get the speed factor. When you force-carbonate was your beer rather than allow the yeast to react with excess sugar in coffee. This method can be completed in 24 hours unlike the week or two you'd wait for the options bottling others. Unfortunately, kegging beer do you need equipment that bottling traditional not to use. Thus, to keg your beer for the first time you'll need to buy several hundred dollars worth of equipment like a barrel, a tank of pressurized carbon dioxide, many fittings and valves. In addition, if you want to have a barrel of cold at all times, a Kegerator is something you can invest in.