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Reusing chemical bottles for food

Worker 11811 said:
How many beer snobs or wine snobs would sneer at you for reusing bottles that you didn't specifically obtain for the purpose, no matter what was previously in them.
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GumPhoto said:
Please have more respect for your homebrew than to bottle it in a Grolsch bottle. Yuck!
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My point, exactly!

(P.S. Gum, please understand the humorous intent, here. )
 
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I like that the Grolsch bottles hold 15 ounces instead of just 12 like normal bottles. And I can afford new bottles, it's just that I'm not going to use these for photos anymore, because I need more volume for my film tanks, so unless I can repurpose them, I'm just going to throw them away, which seems like a waste of bottles and I could just add them to my bottle pool.
 

Put film strength fixer in them, and then dilute it 1 + 1 for print use.
 
Scheimpflug said:
It IS a waste to throw them away! You should recycle them instead.
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Ya beat me to the punch!

Better yet, fill them with spent fixer, label them, and drop the whole kit 'n' kaboodle off at a local hazardous waste disposal facility (so they can pour the fixer into the river and sell the bottles back to Grolsch ).
 
BetterSense said:
The thing is I don't like Grolsch and I don't even know where to buy it.
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But you do know where to find new gaskets for the Grolsch lids?
 
It not a great practice to put fixer in bottles or containers generally recognized as being normally used for food or drink. Imagine if a friend or relative who might be house sitting for you found them and in a drunken stupor perhaps took a big swig of fixer....stranger things have happened.
 
Recycle the glass and wire. The ceramic stopper makes a pretty good roach clip.
 
pbromaghin said:
Recycle the glass and wire. The ceramic stopper makes a pretty good roach clip.
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putting your mouth on something porous that was bathed in fixer and then heating it up ...
that is as bad as putting beer in the bottles ...
 

Are your friends and relatives that stupid? Perhaps you should review your choice of house-sitter!
 
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Soup is better in a chamber pot

Worker 11811 said:
On more than one occasion, people have walked in with large soup tureens, asking her to help find out who made them and what they are worth. They are absolutely shocked when my wife tells them that these "tureens" are really chamber pots.
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Adds flavor so good as it will put a sh_t eating grin in your face.

But seriously, I think bottles are so cheap, why reuse them?
 
If they were glass, I might but why?
If they are plastic, I am kinda sure it will be fine... that said why would you want to risk rotten-egg overtones in your beer regardless?
It would be the taste I would be most worried about.... isn't that the point of messing about with home brew... certainly it's not cheaper than cans of Heiniekin that is pretty cheap and tasty here in the USA.
 
Is there a way to suspend users for a month that start threads like this?!?!?!?


I know two of you are going to say "ignor" the thread... I say it clutters up the forum for useful conversation and discourse.
 
You may get them clean enough to not be a danger (you probably will), but the chance of off tastes should deter you. Most plastic isn't great for beer anyway.
 
Simple test. Next time you make beer, use clean bottles. Nothing recycled from the darkroom. Offer your guests a choice of two bottles. Say, "this one is from a bottle I used for chemicals in my darkroom for a couple of years. This bottle is new". See which bottle they pick.
 
For those that don't know, Grolsch bottles are about 15 ounces, made of heavy glass, and have ceramic flip-tops.
 
Please change your user name from BetterSense to NoSenseAtAll.

What part of no upside, endanger your health, lose your friends, and spoil the taste do you not understand?
 
This sounds like a good way to win a Darwin award...
 
The issue of food safety is pretty much cut and dried as far as I can see but I think the bigger issue is craftsmanship.

Most people here would have a stroke at the mere thought of spending hours to perfect a great photo only to have it stuffed into a 99¢ frame from WalMart but hardly anybody even blinks an eye when somebody spends his time, money, blood, sweat and tears to brew great homemade beer only to dump it into used bottles.

It's like hanging a crystal chandelier in an outhouse!

I'm not saying that you should go out and buy new bottles for every batch you brew but any good bottle, made for the purpose, can be washed and sterilized and used over again.

Have we entirely lost the spirit of craftsmanship in this world?
 
hardly anybody even blinks an eye when somebody spends his time, money, blood, sweat and tears to brew great homemade beer only to dump it into used bottles.
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I don't think I have ever used new bottles to bottle beer. I'm not even sure the bottles of the commercial beer that I buy are "new". I suspect they are returned and refilled, and there is nothing wrong with that.

I'm not saying that you should go out and buy new bottles for every batch you brew but any good bottle, made for the purpose, can be washed and sterilized and used over again.
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If "any good bottle can be wash, sterilized and used over and over again", why not Grolsch bottles? They are very good bottles, maybe the ultimate bottle for homebrewing. They are made of very thick glass, have ceramic reusable flip tops, and they hold 15.5 oz so they fill up a pint glass. They are my favorite out of all my bottles. I can't see the sense in throwing these bottles away. It would be a waste. My procedure is to hand-wash the bottles with a bottle brush, inspect them in front of a lamp for debris, and wash them in my dishwasher under the "sterilize" setting. I then dunk them in sanitizer solution before filling. After I put a new gasket on them, I'm sure any leftover fixer will be long gone, or reduced to ppm levels, by that point.
 
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