BeerBorg

I just finished bottling my third brew which is the MB punkin lager. My problem is that when I went to cap my bottles, I noticed that a bottle I just capped didn't seem right. It looked askew on top. I flicked it with my thumb and guess what, it flew off. So I looked closer and noticed that this bottle had a fatter lip on it than the other bottles. Anyone come across this? After some checking I tracked down where I got those bottles, I filled 5 of them, they come from "Rahr n Sons" in Fort Worth. I had bought 2 six packs of this brand, one is called Texas red, it was ok but not my new favorite. The other, Buffalo Butt, yes its true, I bought a beer with the word butt in it. It had to be done. My kids laughed all the way home. Not suprisingly, it tasted like ass. I will not be buying any more Rahr n Sons. So, back to my dilemma, I now had 5 bottles full that I can't cap. My solution, and I hope no one says I screwed up, was to quickly clean and sanitize new bottles. Then I slowly poured those bottles back into my clean and sanitized LBK, and filled up the new bottles and capped them. I think that as long as I didn't introduce too much air through two cycles of bottling, it should be ok. I did mark those so I will know for sure when its time to sample. Any additional tips and advice would be appreciated. By the way, I use a Red baron bottle capper.

As long as everything was sanitized, and as you mentioned, as long as you didn't introduce too much oxygen, I don't think this should be a problem.

You aren't the first person to have to rebottle a new beer. Seems you did the right thing.

Sounds like you did well. But on the subject of the beer with "butt" in it's name: Leinies used to make a beer called "Big Butt". The picture on the bottle was of two rams head-butting each other. It was a damn good beer too and I miss it. But I loved going into the local watering hole and asking the waitress/bar-tender if she had a "Big Butt"? (Of course we knew each other other wise I wouldn't be here to type this. )