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[kbhale]

I have several cases of beer bottles that I seldom use. I was thinking about using them for wine. Is there any problem beer bottle capping wine for long term storage.The wine is Peach and Blackberry.

[Wayne B]

It depends on what you think of as "long term." For 6 months to a year, there really isn't any problem in using bottles with crown caps. But for longer storage, those plastic gaskets in the crown caps are designed to seal against positive pressure in the bottle, and if there is no pressure differential between the inside and the outside they eventually don't make a gas-tight seal. So the wine/mead in those bottles will eventually oxidize.

[Noontime]

I have never heard of their being an issue with lack of positive preasure within the bottle causing problems...but there's certainly more that I don't know than I do. The only thing I've ever heard about is the lack of micro-oxygenation of the wine via the traditional cork. This is also the issue that makes screw cap wines questionable (to some). If your drinking it in a year or two I would not worry about it at all.

[kbhale]

Thanks for the replies. I'm not much of wine drinker. I just make the wine for family and friends. Having it in beer bottles would make it easier to dol-out. Plus free up my kegs for beer. My wife like's her fruit wine sparkling. So it's carbonated already.

[ScottS]

I used bottles for years before I started kegging. They stored fine for about two years.