Beer from the bottle - a delight!
"Beer glass or beer bottle?" This is almost a question of faith. Some people insist that beer tastes better from a glass, but let's face it: nothing tastes better than a fresh, cold beer straight from the bottle. Precisely because so many people drink directly from the bottle, it's even more important that you use only high-quality bottles for bottling your home-brewed beer. After all, you don't want your beer enjoyment to be marred by doubts about hygiene, cleanliness and workmanship!
And even if you prefer beer from a glass: the home-brewed beer belongs at least before serving in stylish bottles.
What forms are there?
Until the 1980s, one beer bottle in particular dominated the market in Germany: the Euro bottle. In the 1980s, it was superseded by the more modern NRW bottle. Today, however, Euro bottles are being rediscovered by many regional craft breweries as a nostalgic beer bottle. There are now many different beer bottle shapes in Germany.
For your homebrew, you will find a variety of bottle styles in our store. Some of them will surely look familiar to you:
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Longneck: Today, the longneck is one of the most common beer bottle shapes. Since the 2000s, it has been preferred by many well-known beer brands for marketing reasons, such as Krombacher and Jever. The elegant beer bottle with the narrow neck are especially popular with craft beer brewers.
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Steinie: The 0.33-liter dwarf, also affectionately known as "Knolle" or "Stubbi," is considered particularly unbreakable. More bellied than its 0.33-liter longneck counterpart, the Steinie is the typical beer bottle shape of Astra or Bitburger, for example. Some breweries combine the dwarf with a swing stopper; however, crown corks are just as common
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NRW bottles: Until the longneck era, this was the most common bottle shape. It replaced the popular Europa shape in the 1980s, which was considered too proletarian. In the early 2000s, it was replaced by longneck bottles at many breweries.
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Frankonia: These beer bottles could easily be mistaken for the longneck shape. Frankonia, however, has a slightly shorter bottle neck and is a bit more bulbous in design.
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Belge: This beer bottle model is also similar to the Longneck. However, the neck has a bulge, which gives this bottle shape an interesting, individual touch.
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Vichy: This beer bottle has the same shape as the NRW bottle, but has a smaller capacity. Instead of the NRW-typical 0.5 liters, only 0.25 or 0.33 liters fit into the Vichy bottles, depending on the variant.
Which shape for which beer?
In the past, the NRW bottle was used for many different types of beer. Since longnecks have supplanted the NRW shape, this bottle is used primarily in the 05-liter size - and very often for wheat beers.
Steinies and longnecks are often used for pilsners and ales.
For your homebrew, however, there are no limits to your imagination: you can let your creativity run wild when it comes to choosing beer bottles for your own beer.
Green glass or amber glass?
In stores, you can find beer in either green glass or amber glass beer bottles. Transparent glass is extremely rare. Why? Because a colored beer bottle protects the beer from UV radiation releasing hop bitters that could alter the taste.Nevertheless, the question remains: green or brown? In our store you will find only amber glass beer bottles, because amber glass has a better filtering effect for UV rays. So your homebrew better preserves its unique taste in brown beer bottles. You close the beer bottles from our assortment in style with a fancy crown cork, just like it is done in most breweries today.