A word about bottles

 

In order to brew beer, you need ingredients, and equipment.  In order to bottle and store your beer, you need either kegging equipment, or bottles.  I live in an apartment with a wonderful woman, two awesome kids, and a defective dog.  I do not have room in our single refrigerator, nor access to a second refrigerator.  This limits me (generally) to using ale yeast instead of lager, and using bottles instead of kegs.  I have no problem with using bottles, but I have asked several people to save them for me.  There are generally two types of bottles commonly available.  The twist-off, and the pop-top.  If you have to use a bottle opener on your bottles and the glass has a rounded lip, that's the only kind that can be used for re-filling.  The capper mechanism will not work with twist-offs.  It will break them.  Some of the reliable brewers such as Samuel Adams, Schafley, and Sheltowee made by Bluegrass Brewing, as well as most import beers use "the good kind" of bottles.  My advice is to drink good beer: and save me your rinsed-out bottles!