Is there a beer you buy just for the bottles?

[drainbamage]

I picked up a 12er of New Belgium last year sometime in hopes that I'd get good beer and bottles but after washing them I'd say 4 or so had weird hairline cracks from what seemed like a manufacturing defect.

I've had trouble with the NB bottles too. They seem more brittle than most.

 

[rodwha]

I buy all sorts of beer bottle styles, but had a bit of a time with completing a 12 pack box with Ranger Creek small batch series bottles, which look like Belgian bottles with 16.9 oz, but cost almost $6 a piece.

I found their English barley wine and finished off what I needed to fill the box.

Not sure how to copy and paste a link using an iPad.

 

[Hopinista]

I've had trouble with the NB bottles too. They seem more brittle than most.

My main trouble with NB bottles is that they have NB beer in them.

 

[bnairuni87]

Sam Adams

 

[rodwha]

I've been bottling with plenty of NB bottles up to 2.6 vols of carb with no issues. Not sure what's going on with many of you. Am I just lucky then?

 

[drainbamage]

Part of my problem was the old wing capper I used to use. It was rough on bottles in general, but NB and Anchor seemed to be particularly susceptible to shattered necks. I might only have a couple NBs that survived until I got a bench capper, but the Anchor bottles handle it much better.

 

[andvari7]

Rogue XS comes in 750mL ceramic bottles. I like them a lot, because they are hefty, completely opaque, and flip-top.

 

[DakotaSouth]

Green Flash. I do not buy it now for just the bottle. When I first tried their Palate Wrecker, I was just trying their beer and kind of liked the bottle. Turns out I like how their short bottles pour, how easy they are to store and carry, how easy their labels come off and have yet to have one of their brews I don't like.

I don't buy them just for the bottle but will try about any new thing they put out partly because I know that I will like the bottles.

 

[KVANTAN]

If you are in Asia Tiger beer is cheap as...and comes in a nice heavy weight 22oz.

 

[mattmmille]

I have a friend that spear fishes and dives where he finds megalodon fossil shark teeth. He traded me a big one for a batch of hefewiesse. I put as much of that batch as I could in bottles from Dogfish Head...they have an oval emblem with a shark on the shoulder of the bottle. And I customized a label with a great white shark on it.

 

[HopSong]

Kirkland mixed case of beer at Costco.. Decent, inexpensive, good bottles, good box. Cheaper than buying new bottles.. Have some friends over to help drink it.

 

[divrguy]

I like the green flash bottles

 

[MaxStout]

SNPA 12 packs for about $10 at Total Wine. Since my LHBS sells 24 12oz. bottles for $13.99, buying two 12-packs is like getting a case of beer for $6.