I live in small town with few restarunts that serve wine. Closest
supplier sells 12-750ml bottles for $15, which I think is too high.
The local bar is saving their wiskey bottles for me. Most are 1L, with
screw caps. I think the neck is too tappered for a cork. Several seem
to have a standard screw on cap (like the cap on 2 liter soda
bottles). Will I be able to use these? Can you buy these type of caps
(metal or plastic) online?
Stu

Yeah, you can pretty much buy the caps at any of the online wine/beer/home
brew stores. Typically, you'll find they take a 28mm cap. BTW, FWIW, the
$15 price for a case of bottles sounds pretty typical. From a lot of the
online stores, you can get a case for $10, but shipping pushes the price
well above $15.
Van
"Stu Pedaso" <StillAwake@am> wrote in message
...
>I live in small town with few restarunts that serve wine. Closest
> supplier sells 12-750ml bottles for $15, which I think is too high.
> The local bar is saving their wiskey bottles for me. Most are 1L, with
> screw caps. I think the neck is too tappered for a cork. Several seem
> to have a standard screw on cap (like the cap on 2 liter soda
> bottles). Will I be able to use these? Can you buy these type of caps
> (metal or plastic) online?
> Stu

If the bottles take standard PET pop bottle caps thaen these are
readily available at most wine making supply stores. They make also
sell 28mm Polyseal caps which will aklso fit PET bottles, and are
better quality, last longer, and supposedly make a better seal.

HOWEVER, I haven't checked many whiskey bottles, but I didn't think
that the PET caps fit them.

I would suggest checking carefully before buying a lot of these caps.
If possible, take a sample bottle to the retailer.

Steve

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:51:54 -0500, Stu Pedaso <StillAwake@am> wrote:

>I live in small town with few restarunts that serve wine. Closest
>supplier sells 12-750ml bottles for $15, which I think is too high.
>The local bar is saving their wiskey bottles for me. Most are 1L, with
>screw caps. I think the neck is too tappered for a cork. Several seem
>to have a standard screw on cap (like the cap on 2 liter soda
>bottles). Will I be able to use these? Can you buy these type of caps
>(metal or plastic) online?
>Stu

hey stu if you had'nt thought of it already, you might try function
halls/wedding mills for empties..I was an off premise catering chef when I
started w(h)ining; on a good weekend I could take home 6 or 7 cases of
empties, sometimes it was mag, sometimes 750's. making friends w/ a rental
co-ordinator or house caterer could help you out. BTW, what part of the
country are you in?



"Steve Waller" > wrote in message
...
> If the bottles take standard PET pop bottle caps thaen these are
> readily available at most wine making supply stores. They make also
> sell 28mm Polyseal caps which will aklso fit PET bottles, and are
> better quality, last longer, and supposedly make a better seal.
>
> HOWEVER, I haven't checked many whiskey bottles, but I didn't think
> that the PET caps fit them.
>
> I would suggest checking carefully before buying a lot of these caps.
> If possible, take a sample bottle to the retailer.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:51:54 -0500, Stu Pedaso <StillAwake@am> wrote:
>
>>I live in small town with few restarunts that serve wine. Closest
>>supplier sells 12-750ml bottles for $15, which I think is too high.
>>The local bar is saving their wiskey bottles for me. Most are 1L, with
>>screw caps. I think the neck is too tappered for a cork. Several seem
>>to have a standard screw on cap (like the cap on 2 liter soda
>>bottles). Will I be able to use these? Can you buy these type of caps
>>(metal or plastic) online?
>>Stu
>