Bottle Design is Important.

I bottled the Citrus City Ale last night and I came to the conclusion I will be throwing some bottles away. I use a butterfly capper for bottling and it works much better with deeper ridged bottles.

This bottle does not have a deeper ridge. No leverage leads to a greater potential of cracking the bottle.

The bottle on the right does have a deeper ridge which makes it a lot easier to cap.

I have a couple bottles that gave a little crunch as I was capping it. I haven't thrown those away, it may still be good.

So, all Anchor Steam and poorly designed bottles will get the turf treatment.