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I just got two cases of bottles (24 each) for $38 including shipping from Amazon: one of the few good homebrew deals there.
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Nice. My lhbs sells em for $16. So good deal
 
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When I bottled, I was too lazy for that shit. I bought bombers, and those are definitely not cheap. Awesome you found a deal.
 
Hm. I can get cheap-ish (low quality, not low price) brown bottles for about $24 a case of 24 12s. I did not look carefully, perhaps I might find them a bit less costly somewhere. They come filled with beer, but they are not screw cap.
 
I have that Amazon deal saved on one of my lists in case I need to pull the trigger. As a bottler, it’s the best deal I can find. At one point, a few years ago, my LHBS was selling them for $12/case. Now, they’re $22.
 
Cheap bastard saved his empties and I got case of heavy 12 oz and a bunch of 32 oz swings on a craigslist deal where I was just buying a couple carboys and while chatting with the guy, he said he wasn't that great of a brewer and probably was not going to brew again and just pulled a pay-it-forward on me and gave me the whole lot with his blessings. He wouldn't take anything for it...so I left a case of IPA's on his porch and rang his doorbell.
About 6 months ago I put my excess on craigslist as a freebie. A gal who was getting married took 4 cases and used them for centerpieces.
Good karma....
Steve, are the ones you bought heavy duty or light weights?
 
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Ward Chillington said:
Cheap bastard saved his empties and I got case of heavy 12 oz and a bunch of 32 oz swings on a craigslist deal where I was just buying a couple carboys and while chatting with the guy, he said he wasn't that great of a brewer and probably was not going to brew again and just pulled a pay-it-forward on me and gave me the whole lot with his blessings. He wouldn't take anything for it...so I left a case of IPA's on his porch and rang his doorbell.
About 6 months ago I put my excess on craigslist as a freebie. A gal who was getting married took 4 cases and used them for centerpieces.
Good karma....
Steve, are the ones you bought heavy duty or light weights?
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Heavy
 
I never bought any empty bottles.
I would just get a case of full ones, then drink the beer, clean bottle and use those
We got deposit bottles ;)
 
Zambi said:
I never bought any empty bottles.
I would just get a case of full ones, then drink the beer, clean bottle and use those
We got deposit bottles ;)
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Fine and dandy, until you need bottles for a competition and bottles with brewery I D on them are not allowed.
I've got six 12 packs of Sam Adams bottles with raised lettering on them.
 
Steve Ruch said:
Fine and dandy, until you need bottles for a competition and bottles with brewery I D on them are not allowed.
I've got six 12 packs of Sam Adams bottles with raised lettering on them.
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There are no markings on the bottles
Just a label thats easy to remove, they are re-usable bottles after all
 
Related to topic.
Opinnion about using brown plastic(pet) bottles.
 
PET bottles are ok for relatively short-term storage as they allow O2 in and CO2 out. I've only ever bottled in glass but, Prof. Google says a max of 3-4 months. When I bottled, my beer would be gone by then anyway so in my case it wouldn't really have mattered unless I was bottling something like a Wee Heavy that I wanted to keep around for a few years.
 
BarbarianBrewer said:
PET bottles are ok for relatively short-term storage as they allow O2 in and CO2 out. I've only ever bottled in glass but, Prof. Google says a max of 3-4 months. When I bottled, my beer would be gone by then anyway so in my case it wouldn't really have mattered unless I was bottling something like a Wee Heavy that I wanted to keep around for a few years.
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Just wondering because few years back i bought 48pc 0.5l plastic bottles and after my mate said that those are useless with beer. He doesn't drinks fast enough i think :).
I will test those at some point.

Thanks for this info.
 
JVi said:
Just wondering because few years back i bought 48pc 0.5l plastic bottles and after my mate said that those are useless with beer. He doesn't drinks fast enough i think :).
I will test those at some point.

Thanks for this info.
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They are not useless, but glass holds beer for longer. A few months is fine.

I use soda bottles, but only for a few hours, like bringing a liter or two to a friends house.
 
I'll use them the same way. Using them 100% would give me bad memories of the old, Mr. Beer days.
 
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