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DAve Allison DAve Allison is offline
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Default Using beer bottles for Individual serving bottles of wine

Yes, would love to train adult daughters to return the bottles
de-labeled and cleaned, but then, "Dad! Your asking too much" :*)

DAve
p.s. Love the smaller bottle sizes, good ideas in this thread. thanks.




wrote:
> Duke wrote:
>> "Brad" > wrote in message
>> .. .
>>> I've been considering purchasing a bottle capper and using empty (clear)
>>> beer bottles to store some of my wine. I still intend to use the
>>> traditional bottle and cork for the majority of the batch, but I like the
>>> idea of a "serving size" bottle.
>>>
>>> I would of course bulk age my wine before hand.
>>>
>>> Has anybody tried this that they are willing to share their experiences
>>> with it?
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>

>> I bottle all of my meads in small (~7 oz) bottles just for the very purpose
>> of single servings.
>>
>> So far so good.
>>
>> Duke

>
> Superb idea. And when adult sons or friends ask to share, its easier
> to pass along a smaller quantity, and you don't worry about getting the
> bottles back (full of mold).
>