375ml pry-off bottles (QC)

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:30 am

Has anyone ever bottled using the new pry-off 375ml bottles coming out recently?

I know you can find them in the new packaging of Les Trois Mousquetaires, and Hopfenstark on the Quebec-side.

They are really good gauge brown bottles with a standard pry-off, shaped very similar to Lost Abbey/Russian River 375ml bottles.

Wondering if its as good a bottle as it seems. I've started buying some LTM Aperican pale Ale to start putting some bottles aside, and I wonder if its a good idea.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:39 pm

No replies, check out this link for a pic of the bottle...

http://beeradvocate.com/im/beers/82299.jpg

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:21 pm

iguenard wrote:No replies, check out this link for a pic of the bottle...

http://beeradvocate.com/im/beers/82299.jpg

I've never seen those type of bottles, athough I have done a bunch of bottling with a euro cap on the 355ml green bottles (Lindemans Geuze, Mikkeller Black Hole). They have the same kind of flange as these ones under the cap and it would constantly get stuck in the bell with an emily capper (not sure if it would be similar with a bench capper). Huge pain in the ass.

D Derry · Post by **D Derry** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:06 pm

I think this is quite a handsome bottle. I'd use it. My bench capper caps those euro-cap gueuze bottles problem-free (of course using the right sized bell).

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:04 pm

D Derry wrote:I think this is quite a handsome bottle. I'd use it. My bench capper caps those euro-cap gueuze bottles problem-free (of course using the right sized bell).

I did get the euro bell, but it has an inside thread and the benches have an outside (or the other way around) it is a striking bottle though, I love simple but well designed labels too.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:35 pm

This is a standard american pry-off cap. Its a hybrid bottle, just like the one that Brasseurs du Temps are using for their 750ml.