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"DEMPSEY":3ggt30mg wrote: this allows a longer shelf life.[/quote:3ggt30mg]But is presumably only worthwhile if there's no yeast in the bottle.

Yes, I think this is for force carbonated beer. The same applies for filling bottles from a cornie - the devices like counter pressure fillers/beerguns allow you to purge the bottle with CO2 before filling, no need to do this for bottle conditioning.

Just opened a few of the new bottles, a Cooper's Canadian Blond. Must say I'm impressed, certaintly no loss of CO2.

And heres an interesting side effect . . . I somehow forgot to prime a few of the bottles so I put carbonation drops in them. The first attempt was a disaster, the beer foamed all over the place. But from that point on, I managed to pop in a carbonation drop and close the cap without losing any foam or beer.

The yanks use oxygen absorbing caps with their homebrews I don't see the difference here.
Good idea bringing in more innovative products to the market Brian. It certainly gets over the whole PET bottles and oxygenation problem.

A lot of the brits use PET coke bottles and the likes for their beer, this would go down a bomb with Jims crowd, this lot seem harder to please <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

&amp;quot;HomeBrewWest&amp;quot;:24s8p6l6 wrote: Just opened a few of the new bottles, a Cooper's Canadian Blond. Must say I'm impressed, certaintly no loss of CO2.

And heres an interesting side effect . . . I somehow forgot to prime a few of the bottles so I put carbonation drops in them. The first attempt was a disaster, the beer foamed all over the place. But from that point on, I managed to pop in a carbonation drop and close the cap without losing any foam or beer.[/quote:24s8p6l6]

Off topic but how was the Coopers Canadian Blonde? Got a gift of it at Christmas.

&amp;quot;EoinMag&amp;quot;:1jwy1dha wrote: The yanks use oxygen absorbing caps with their homebrews I don't see the difference here.
Good idea bringing in more innovative products to the market Brian. It certainly gets over the whole PET bottles and oxygenation problem.

A lot of the brits use PET coke bottles and the likes for their beer, this would go down a bomb with Jims crowd, this lot seem harder to please <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->[/quote:1jwy1dha]

The yanks do lots of things different to us, should we all mend our ways Eoin? Personally i see a one big difference, they're [b:1jwy1dha]plastic[/b:1jwy1dha] bottles! The brewers on here are more educated than you think and you can push these bottles as much as you see fit but i can't see you pulling the wool over they're eyes. As for the guys on jims snapping them up, possibly they would go down a little better as the market is bigger over there and there is a steady flow of inexperienced brewers but "go down a bomb" is the exageration of the century but i've come to expect statements of this nature from you.
Brian, 10/10 for trying but there is a wealth of information on this site and a bit of market research next time will save you money and storage space <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> Unlike Eoin said the brewers are not harder to please on here, although they do know what they want, never forget these guys are your bread and butter <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->