Glass Beer Bottles

Glass Beer Bottles

If you've ever been tempted to try your hand at home-brewing, you're in luck, as we have a large and ever-expanding range of fantastic glass beer bottles at Wares of Knutsford. This specialist category of glass bottles is always popular, both with home-brewing enthusiasts and novices, and also with independent businesses who buy glass bottles for commercial purposes. But what do you need to know about glass beer bottles, and why is glass the superior material for your amber nectar? Let's take a closer look.

Why Choose Glass Beer Bottles?

Glass beer bottles are a great choice for home brewers and businesses alike. Firstly, they come in both amber and clear colours, which are ideal for preserving the drinks inside (not that they'll be sitting around for long!) Glass is also infinitely recyclable, making it an environmentally-friendly choice, and we know that this is extremely important to our customers, who are seeking to build more sustainable lifestyles and businesses.

Glass Bottles For Businesses

Glass bottles are also very cost-effective, and what's more, they look beautiful. You'll find a wide range of glass beer and cider bottles at Wares, with wholesale and retail packs also available in a range of sizes. These reusable glass bottles are beverage-grade certified and supplied with a variety of coloured crown caps to suit your needs.

Coloured Glass Bottles

You'll find clear and amber glass bottles for sale on our site in all kinds of sizes up to 500ml, and the caps we sell can be added with a hand capper or a commercial capping machine, depending on your volume. Check out our glass bottles for mead and wine too.

How to Make Beer at Home

One of the easiest ways to make beers is with a home brewing beer-making kit, which has everything you need in one box and simple instructions. Most of these kits also come with the equipment that you'll need, such as a brewing kettle, funnel, fermenter and airlock, auto-siphon and stir spoon.

Before you begin to make beer, you'll need to sanitise your glass bottles because any bacteria will cause the beer to spoil. With that in mind, sanitise anything that comes into contact with the beer after the boiling process. You can use various products to do this - Star San and PBW are two popular brands.

1. The Boiling Process

Once your glass beer bottles and equipment are sanitised, you'll need to fill the brew kettle with water and heat it, whilst steeping your grains until the water reaches 170 degrees. When removing the grains, the water should drip back into the kettle from the grain bag. It's important not to squeeze the grain bag, however, or you might get unwanted tannin flavours in the resulting brew.

Boil the kettle and add malt extracts, and then return it to the boil, before adding hops in stages according to the recipe you are following. It's important to follow your chosen recipe precisely and carefully.

2. The Fermenting Process

At this stage you'll have wort, which is also known as sugar water. Cool this as quickly as you can using an ice bath or a wort chiller. You're now ready to start the fermenting process. Pour the cooled wort straight into your fermenter and then add water to bring the level up to around five gallons or the amount recommended in the recipe. Aerate it by agitating the mix, and then add dry yeast. Seal the fermenter, add the airlock and store your mix in a cool, dark place. For proper fermentation, the temperature needs to be at around 68 degrees.

3. The Bottling Process

After around two weeks of fermentation, you can bottle your beer. Clean your glass bottles, caps, bucket, and transfer hose and boil your priming sugar in water before adding the cool mix to your bottling bucket. Transfer the beer using a hose from your fermenter to the bucket, and then fill the bottles using a bottle filler and hose with a bucket spigot. Fill each bottle to the top and then cap it. You can then give your beer a couple of weeks at room temperature to carbonate.

Tips for Making Better Beer

For beginners, the best tip is to use a beer-making kit as these are a great way to ease yourself into this hobby and get great results. You might also want to join a local enthusiasts club, as you'll find many experienced brewers who are keen to share their experience and tips. It's a friendly and sociable world, and it results in a great drink!

Stock up on Beer Bottles at Wares

Whether your passion is for beer, cider, wine or mead making, you'll find the glass bottles you need at Wares, all at the right prices. Buy online for fast and cost-effective delivery, without plastic packaging for your sustainable home or business. Our customer service team is also on hand for any queries that you might have about our glass bottles; discover the service that sets us apart from other retailers, and explore Wares of Knutsford today!