FastRack Swing Top Glass Bottles |16 oz – Pack of 12 | Cobalt Blue Flip Top Glass Bottles for Home Brewing, Carbonated Drinks, Kombucha, Fermentation, Water Food Grade – ECO Friendly

This is a review for Cobalt Blue EZ Cap Bottles-16oz case of 12, Caps includedThese bottles work especially well for a variety of carbonated beverages including kombucha. The cobalt color is consistent and rich, and the price is competitive. The bail is substantial but easy to use. These EZ Cap Bottles are a pleasure to use.If this review was helpful to you in any way, I would appreciate it if you'd please check "yes" below. Thanks!

Solid glass, packaged well. The deep cobalt color is eyecatching and every piece of this bottle is very high quality. I have used, reused and sanitized several times without issue. It can be really hard to find the right quality of item when looking at an avalanche of search results but you cannot go wrong with these. They were worth every penny.

My husband and I bought these bottles to bottle our first ever batch of beer. It was so easy to put them together and seal them up properly without the worry of caps. They look fantastic, and work great, after a month we finally able to try them out and I was very surprised at how easily they closed up and stored. We kept the boxes that they came in to help us store them when filled, and that was a great help as well. We will definatley be buying more of these for Root Beer and whatever else we can think to make. They also take to labeling really easy and look fantastic.

Made a second purchase. I use them for tinctures. Directions needed to place on stoppers. I had to take off several and redo but bottles and stoppers are well made.

Bottles are great. I love the color and the caps fit well, just don't sanitize them in a dishwasher as the dishwasher detergent corrodes the metal pretty severely, but I should have tried just one first. Fortunately the caps and wires can be ordered separately.

These things are great. The blue is actually more attractive & pleasing to the eye than the brown bottles and a little easier to see into during the filling process. Forget using recycled store bought kombucha bottles, it's just not worth it. We almost never got a good seal using recycled bottles, nor any real carbonation. With the swing tops, we've never had a bad seal yet. My kombucha foams like a frothy beer now, every bottle, every time. Turns out, yes, there are in fact tricks to getting good carbonation with recycled wide mouth bottles, but these blue bottles just produce a better product and I have never regretted the expense of a few dozen.

Good choice in bottles. I dont think you will be disappointed. They are shipped in a padded box. Be sure to save the box for storing them later. Using the box to store in an upper cabinet that you dont normally use in the kitchen due to needing a stool to reach during the carbonation phase for brewing comes in very handy as well. By no fault of Homebrew supplier, I had one that got broken during shippment. It was the bottle that had the caps in the same compartment so the package probably took some abuse or had weight stacked on it intransit. In just a few days, I had a replacment in hand just in time for my home brew to be bottled up. It took a few minutes to get the first cap figured out since I was holding it incorrectly but once I got it, the rest went on in a snap. The quality of the bottles and caps are very good so I dont think you could go wrong with a purchase of these. I already know I will be ordering more as I get better with my brewing.

These make some of the fizziest kombucha ever! Most secondary ferments take three days or more to get nice and fizzy. Mine has been getting fizzy now in one day. I'm running out of room in my fridge because I can't keep up with how fast my kombucha is fermenting. Burping the bottles has become essential because I simply can't put all the fizzy kombucha in the fridge, there's just too much of it! It's a good problem to have.The caps don't arrive on the bottles. They were pretty easy to put on. My boyfriend and I knocked the case of bottles out in a few minutes. The lids are hard to put on and press down the first few times. I couldn't do it alone the first round and had to call in a pair of stronger hands for some help. But it's getting easier as we use them more.The blue color is gorgeous. However, if I do end up buying more grolsch bottles I'll definitely go for a more transparent color. These are really pretty but the blue is very dark so it's really hard to see inside the bottles. I never used to label my kombucha because we knew what bottle was what flavor based on the color. We now have to label them. Which isn't a big problem. The bigger problem is filling them. I constantly over or under fill the bottles because it's sooo hard to see inside while I'm pouring (oh, also the OXO Good Grips 3-Piece Funnel and Strainer Set that's recommended DOESN'T fit inside the necks of these bottles). I have perfect vision and it's still hard for me to see. My boyfriend wears glasses and has an even harder time filling them. I have to do it in full day light in front of the window practically so I can get some light to shine through. Plus, I'm also worried about not getting the bottles clean inside after each use. Since I can't see inside I have no idea if all the yeast and bacteria and baby scobys get out while washing them. I use a special brush, but still, it worries me since any sort of contaminant fermented can make you really really really sick.I'd say if you have some sort of system where seeing inside the bottles isn't an issue for you then by all means get these. They were easy to assemble, they're very pretty, and your kombucha is going to be very fizzy. If you don't have a foolproof way to clean and fill them then I'd recommend getting clear bottles, or a color that's not as dark.