à Flannagáin
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Where's the best place to do this? Anyone ever done it? Am I out of my mind? :fro:
BierMuncher said:20-Pack of Schlafly (local micro brew) pale ale on sale for $15.99.
I gave up on trying to clean cigarette butts out of slimy beer bottles a long time ago.
brewt00l said:srsly
I looked at grabbing a bunch of bottles from some bar bins but between all the twist-tops and general grossness of the bottles, I would much rather empty 'em myself.
BierMuncher said:20-Pack of Schlafly (local micro brew) pale ale on sale for $15.99.
I gave up on trying to clean cigarette butts out of slimy beer bottles a long time ago.
Donasay said:You are not crazy, I actually used to do the same thing. We have recycling day in my neighborhood, and I used to go out before the bums and pull out the usable bottles from the recycling bins...
Colorado has come up with a solution to butts in bottles. Smoking is no longer allowed in bars. Now if we can get it eliminated from casinos...feedthebear said:I'd rather pay extra for brand new bottles than clean a bunch of ash tray bottles. When friends offer me empties for my brewing, I always ask if any of them are ash trays before I accept them.
DaveGerard said:...There's a lot of talk about ash tray bottles and that, what about people with STDs, or any other kind of nasty...
BierMuncher said:I see some full ones back there on the left
GET BUSY ! ! !
Crazytwoknobs said:Hit the bars. Especially those that serve 22oz bottles.
If you're doing that many, someone posted something about buying a bench capper and using screw off bottles (and only getting 1/100 that didn't seal right). I'm gonna try it with my next cider, so I'll let you know how it works out. My bench capper is from the 20's-30's.
johnsmith098 said:I have about 60 bottles, mostly washed..
I thought I might bottle but now I has no intresat
Will give to any who wants too pick them up for free. (BeWare DALLAS)
Khirsah17 said:Personally, I don't think I could see myself dumpster diving for bottles ever, and I live on a college campus where bottles are everywhere. A much better option that I would highly recommend is looking for a local beer fest/event. We had an Alefest event in my area a few months ago, and I just went by the tables at the end of the show and asked if I could keep their empties. Normally, the vendor just opens the bottle, pours into an event glass, and puts the bottle back in the box. Very convenient.
I left with 400 bottles! 200 were your regular 12 oz, and the other 200 were cool bottles like hobgoblin, st pete's, and ommegang. It was one hell of a score! All my barleywines now go into the specialty bottles I got with corks.
ohiobrewtus said:I don't know that I'd sign up for this either. Nothing against those that do.
I managed to accumulate/buy about 500. I've found that the best way to get free bottles is if you have friends that drink decent beer. Tell them that you'll give them some homebrew if they save their bottles for you. That's how I got the majority of mine.
Even now that I'm going to be kegging soon I'll probably still want to bottle certain batches for aging, so they'll still get used.
DaveGerard said:Yah, maybe you all live in the cleanest places on earth, but I'd rather buy 500 bottles of beer out of the store than risk coming into contact with any of the disgusting beasts that populate NYC. There's a lot of talk about ash tray bottles and that, what about people with STDs, or any other kind of nasty. Snuh huh, I don't care if the bottle was sterilized using alien space trek technology, if it came from a strangers mouth or any other unkown source, no thanks. I'd rather hit the beer store and buy a few cases of their cheapest beer (well, I do that anyway) and pour it out rather than take the risk. Do you need all 500 bottles immediately? If not, start buying cases of beer while you brew. I did that, and I now have 2 5 gal batches bottled, 1 fermenting, and probably 100 empty bottles extra.
Evan! said:Ah, buncha freakin' hypochondriacs around here. Are you serious? You're actually afraid of contracting an STD from a beer bottle? Unless it's got needles sticking out of it (in which case, I'd leave it alone), I can imagine no scenario where you'd get a venerial disease from a beer bottle...umm...maybe if some hooker was using it as a dildo, then you went and drank the contents...but let's be honest: nobody (with the possible exception of Cheese) is ever gonna do that.
I get some nasty bottles, but I've never run across one that wasn't sparkling clean after a few days in an oxyclean bath. And honestly, if you think that there's still something to worry about after oxyclean, bottle-jet and star san, then, well...how do you ever survive the horrors of a public bathroom?
I've never dumpster-dove for bottles, mainly because I have friends that bring me cases. They're sometimes nasty, ash-tray bottles, but I get over it. I've probably got 18 or so cases of 12's alone, plus about 10 or 12 cases of large-format bottles. Granted, most of them are full at the moment, but that just means I need to drink more.
Evan! said:do you have a bottle jet? That'll obliterate the rare caked-on crap that oxyclean or PBW can't get rid of.
Ó Flannagáin said:I like the comment about sticking your penis in it as well, that would be a bad idea.
RichBrewer said:Colorado has come up with a solution to butts in bottles. Smoking is no longer allowed in bars. Now if we can get it eliminated from casinos...
Ó Flannagáin said:If these are gonna be in my cellar for possibly years, I want to make sure it's a seal that will hold. I'd be too worried with twist off. I've used twist off before, but I drank the beer within a month.
DaveGerard said:Yah, maybe you all live in the cleanest places on earth, but I'd rather buy 500 bottles of beer out of the store than risk coming into contact with any of the disgusting beasts that populate NYC. There's a lot of talk about ash tray bottles and that, what about people with STDs, or any other kind of nasty. Snuh huh, I don't care if the bottle was sterilized using alien space trek technology, if it came from a strangers mouth or any other unkown source, no thanks. I'd rather hit the beer store and buy a few cases of their cheapest beer (well, I do that anyway) and pour it out rather than take the risk. Do you need all 500 bottles immediately? If not, start buying cases of beer while you brew. I did that, and I now have 2 5 gal batches bottled, 1 fermenting, and probably 100 empty bottles extra.
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