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I'm a newbie and plan on reusing brown commercial beer bottles to bottle my first beer - I haven't bought a capper yet. Are most commercial beers (Hobgoblin, Banks's Bitter, Forty-Niner etc) a 26mm cap and is a £4 capper that you use with a hammer a bad idea?

If you choose a no-rinse sanitiser, does the equipment have to be totally dry before you use it? And if so, is a 'clean' teatowel, clean enough to use (are ordinary airborne germs in the teatowel drawer harmful?!) or should I air dry? Thanks.

Hello all, thanks for having me :razz::mrgreen: I'm new to brewing and am just about to make my first two kits. Hope 'kits' isn't a dirty word here! I'm hoping this hobby will grab me and suck me in as we love good beer and my early forays into winemaking have me hooked. I'm just saying hi...