Wine bottles for water storage?

[Shorts]

Last night I had wine bottles on my mind as I fell asleep. I also had wine in my belly from celebrating my husband's promotion. I am a home brewer, I make mead. So I have supplies necessary to safely brew and store fermented beverages. I have not brewed any batches in a while but I have kept up with my routine of saving empty wine bottles for my product (several crates worth). Hurricane season is right around the corner I figured I could easily and very cheaply/no cost supplement our water supply by filling all my extra wine bottles.

Anyone done this?

How would I need to prepare the water before bottling in order to keep drinking water?

I planned on using real cork (like I have on hand) and storing bottles on their side (which keeps the cork).


Thoughts?

[Moose-Knuckle]

Glass is always a safe bet to store water in though it has it's limitations. If the cork seals the bottle air tight not allowing bacteria in overtime then I don't see a problem but I would research this aspect more before depending on such a water source.

Glass bottles have a variety of uses; storage, containers, early warning devices, Molotov cocktails, even heard of folks crushing glass and loading it in shot shells when there was no lead available.

[SteveS]

Water is for washing and whiskey/wine for drinking.

[PA PATRIOT]

I would save your bottles for wine making since a case of purified water in plastic bottles runs under $3.00 in most discount food stores. My local source is the Aldi food store chain which sells a 24 bottle case of PurAqua 17oz bottles for $1.99 that I rotate out every 18 months or so. Another suggestion is to visit your local Wal-Mart and pick up some seven gallon Aquatainer BPA free water jugs which sells for under $9.00, just fill and rotate the water every year and you would have a safe and dependable water storage plan.

[FloridaWoodsman]

Save your 2-liter clear plastic soda bottles, and look up "solar water pasteurization". Save the wine bottles for something better.

[fedupflyer]

2 liter soda bottles are not meant for long term storage.
They will develop pin hole size leaks. Short term (a few months) is ok.