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> Hello,
> Actually it would be just as cheap to buy the off brand cheaper
> soda and dump the soda out. I can get 2 liters of soda here for .50
> cents each. Search on the net for plastic bottles and see what you
> come up with. I have searched for other bottles and know they can be
> expensive. Thus the buying soda and emptying it out.
> Just my two cents. I will look through my sources and if I can
> find a source I'll post it here.
> Ray W.
Thanks for your help, Ray and Steve. I've googled until I can google no
more, but haven't found any new 2 liters to buy, so if you have a source,
please let me know. If I lived in a place with some room to store them, I
think I'd go ahead and purchase a big lot from wherever and peddle the
surplus to other brewers on Ebay. :) E-Z Cappers aren't the only ones who
use them, I'm surprised there isn't at least one brewing supply store
selling them on the Web by now.
I might try the recycle bins and see what I can find, since you can't beat
"free", although I'm sure cleaning them will take up some time. If I can
find some very cheap soda I'll try that, too, but so far I haven't found any
discounted that much. A dollar a bottle is what I normally pay for one 2
liter, which is still a pretty good deal in terms of making alcohol, but I
guess I've gotten so spoiled on cheap wines and meads that I want to produce
my soda cheaper than retail, too. :)
I found a lot of gallon jugs (which is roughly equivalent to 2 liters) for
sale on various sites like ebottles, etc., some of them even cheaper than
what I pay for 2 liter soda bottles (not to mention they're a little more
reusable, so that drives the cost down a bit more), but unfortunately I
couldn't find any with a 30mm cap size. The few bottles I did find with that
cap size were 1 liter or smaller, which seems a little unpractical for
brewing. I'd certainly need to buy a lot more E-Z Caps, anyway. ;) Is there
any chance the E-Z Caps might come in a 38mm size? A lot of commercial juice
bottles, for instance, have those larger size caps, as do water and milk
jugs, etc. It seems like there'd be a lot more options in terms of brewing
vessels with the larger size cap, since as far as I can tell, the 2 liter
soda bottles and their immediate cousins are the only ones with that size
cap, and they're obviously not available new to hobbyists.
Amber
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