Which beer bottles are worth saving for bottling home brew?

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I have the same problem as saxman. When I have used bottles with close second lip I will get 1-2 bottles a batch that brake apart when I open the beer (cracked during capping). The ones I was using were boulevard and summit.

My top reuses are Sam Adams, New Belgium and New Glarus all which have been mentioned in this post.
 
Foothills brewing (http://www.foothillsbrewing.com) in North Carolina, uses a plastic label on the bottles.. that pulls off in one swipe with no residue. Their Peoples Porter is good, and the Carolina Blonde isnt bad either.

I personally just love the fact the labels pull off with no residue.
 
I'm sitting on about ten dozen cleaned and de-labeled bottles, most of them Sierra Nevada and Great Lakes. Sierra Nevada's are among the easiest bottles to get labels off of IMO. Just soak them in a hot bath of water w/fragrance free OxyClean and the labels float right off.
 

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