We don't really care what club you go for in this thread, it's all good.
You can tell when the cap is on properly, it'll just be sealed down evenly and flat all the way round. Depending on how you progress it appears most move away from bottling and towards kegging, I haven't and don't think I will and I use one of the lever type cappers which is probably a bit smoother an operation when you've got 50 stubbies when compared to the style you've got.
Really though the name of the game is to produce beer that gets you sh*t-faced, then depending on how much you enjoy the hobby you can move to spending more on better gear and ingredients to make better batches.
Regardless keep us posted on how you go with some pics. We're all pretty keen to shoot the sh*t about homebrewing!
Yeah I'm on a homebrew FB group and it appears bottling is for noobs, tends to cause a shitfight whenever someone asks about bottling ha ha. Yeah I'll probably invest in a lever capper at some point, I assume I'll stick with it.
Unless you are looking to age beers beyond 12 months, stick with the PETs. Way easier and safer (no bottle bombs). Also you can keep track of how they are carbing up by giving them a bit of a squeeze- once they are hard you know they are carbed.
Yeah that seems fair I guess. I saw on one video where they bottle the PETs and squeeze them in a bit, meant to help prevent bacteria forming in the gap between the beer level and the lid?
Also can you just re-use a PET and the screw on cap or do you need to get a new cap for each brew?