Coopers PET Bottles leak from base.

[Deegee]

I recently decided to dip into home brew after a gap of twenty odd years, and started with a Coopers Lager kit.

Tonight was bottling night and I excitedly set about filling two boxes of Coopers PET bottles I'd bought from Tesco last week.

Of 48 bottles, SIXTEEN leaked from the bottom. It's like a pinhole, possibly at the moulding point. Thankfully I noticed while sterilising and rinsing so no beer was wasted.

I've been collecting glass bottles from a local club for a stout brew I've just started so they were hurriedly called into action..

Anybody else had this issue with Coopers bottles, or have I just been unlucky?

 

[dennisking]

Hi and welcome to the forum, never used PET bottles but if I were you I'd take them back to Tesco's.

 

[PD]

Unlucky...I would complain to the store manager...they were not fit for purpose

 

[SloeBrewer]

Sounds like a faulty batch - I've used many of these, never had a problem. Get them exchange, Tesco won't argue.

Just as well you had some spare bottles!

 

[Pjam]

That's really poor quality! Shame.

I go to my local pub, they'll give me all the bottles I need!

 

[Deegee]

Hi and welcome to the forum, never used PET bottles but if I were you I'd take them back to Tesco's.

Thanks. I've been trying to take in all the info on here for a couple of weeks. Great community with loads of knowledge to take advantage of.

I fully intend to take them back to Tesco, just wondered if anybody else had experienced this issue. The faulty bottles were split between both boxes (9 in one box, 7 in the other).

I'm wondering whether it's a dodgy batch or should I avoid PET bottles?

Edit: And thanks for the other replies as well! Guess I've just been unlucky on my first session back.

 

[chrig]

I would put an email in to coopers.... You may get a kit out of it :P, they would appreciate hearing about quality issues like these.

 

[SloeBrewer]

Probably just a dodgy batch. Unlike some bottles, the Coopers ones are double-walled, to stop oxygen getting in.

 

[Fil]

Never heard of anything like it, not used cooper pet but used lots of pesi n coke bottles and afaik the coopers bottles should be better?? inform coopers and perhaps get a voucher for kits
start collecting grolsh bottles, :) 3 for a fiver full at asda.. while a lhbs sells the bottles empty (brown galss) for £1.75 empty..

 

[SloeBrewer]

Make sure you keep the Grolsh ones in the dark though, or your beer may become light-struck (skunked). I have a vintage Grolsh bottle, which is brown, don't know why they switched to green.

 

[utterchaos]

hi same here two boxes from Tesco, 12 bottles with little holes in them, mixed between the two boxes,