Could you bottle condition in a 1 gallon glass jug?

[Phil]

I'm currently fermenting an apfelwein and the apple juice i used came in standard 1 gallon glass jugs. I'm planning on bottling 1 gallon of this stuff, with priming sugar, in one of the jugs. Using regular bombers for the rest cause i'm not sure this will work.

Anybody have experience doing this or thoughts on whether this will come out ok or not? The jug is pictured below. cap is like a snapple cap. i'm wondering if i should do something to improve the seal, like teflon tape or something. I'm worried it will either blow the top off (maybe a "cap cage" would be a good idea) or the seal wouldn't be good enough and it wouldn't carbonate at all.

i'm thinking this could be really useful if i'm bottling something i know will be taken to a party or someplace where there will be a gallon's worth of empty glasses all at about the same time.

Thanks gang.

[straight cash homey]

i recently bottled a batch in 2-liter soda bottles and just used a little keg lube on the threads before screwing the top back on as tightly as possible. the seal was fine and the carbonation was just as planned.

[Lars]

Personally, I wouldn't risk the glass jug... It was never intended to hold presure.

[Tarp Town]

I'm going to try and syphon beer from those exact jugs and into a bottling bucket tonight or tomorrow. I used them as a closed secondary fermented because the stoppers BB&MB suggested didn't fit right.

Not looking forward to it.

[Whitebeard_Brewer]

Not sure what size my stoppers are, but I use those jugs all the time for my starters.....

[Nyakavt]

I've conditioned in the 1/2 gallon growlers many times. They most definately were intended to hold the pressure, breweries use them all the time to dispense beer to consumers. Just use the caps with the gasket inside, not the cheap paper insert.

I can't speak for the gallon jugs, they seem to be similar in construction but I haven't tried it.

[Phil]

I'm not so sure they're not intended to hold pressure. That would assume that the people packaging apple juice are getting thinner-wall jugs than people packaging carbonated products, and from what I can tell pretty much all vendors selling 1 gallon glass jugs are carrying the same item.

We'll know in a couple months when I test it out, anyway. I'll definitely bag the jug and leave it in my spare bathtub though...

[Lars]

I've conditioned in the 1/2 gallon growlers many times. They most definately were intended to hold the pressure, breweries use them all the time to dispense beer to consumers. Just use the caps with the gasket inside, not the cheap paper insert.

I can't speak for the gallon jugs, they seem to be similar in construction but I haven't tried it.

Growlers are different than the 1 gallon jugs. Growlers ARE designed to hold pressure. I've never seen anything carbonated in a 1 gallon glass jug. I may be wrong... but I'd prefer not to hear stories about glass jugs shattering from pressure and the bloody shards of glass strewn across the floor.