OK, so I know this is going to make me sound crazy... How many bottles do you have?

[dfc]

This is going to make me sound nuts, but I want to try aging quite a bit of my beers for several months, some even years. That's not the crazy part though. This was inspired by a recent free find I made. I already had plenty of bottles, but I recently stumbled across some guy who was giving away over 250 bottles. Free. I picked them up and counted what I have tonight and came up with an astonishing number of bottles. I'm sitting at 23.5 CASES! This should be great for making a crapload of brews and then ignoring them for several months, even years at a time.

Am I obsessed or is this fairly normal for this hobby? How many bottles do you have and what's the longest you've aged a beer?

 

[bdupree]

i've got about 30 cases (over 20 full of beer) right now. The oldest thing i have in a bottle is from last May. I'm brewing a lambic this weekend so it's gonna take a while. I probably bought 8 of those cases of bottles when i first started brewing. The rest are one's i've cleaned over time.

 

[Burgs]

I have two one-liter swingtop bottles for quick fills from the keg.

 

[ArcaneXor]

I cut down from about 250-300 to 100 bottles or so since I started kegging. Mostly, I am only keeping bombers, 650s and 750s now. I have 10 kegs, although one is not operational due to leaking.

 

[dfc]

OK, so I don't feel as crazy now. :rockin:

Thanks, guys.

 

[509inc]

Don't feel crazy. I have 400 bottles in my brew room and I haven't filled a single one in the past 130gal.

 

[Revvy]

I don't think I'm near 23 cases, but I'm over a dozen spread out between my place and mf gf's. Maybe 15 or 16.

I find milk crates are the best storage medium. They are stackable, and take up half the footprint of a standard beer case.

 

[HairyDogBrewing]

When I was bottling: Not nearly enough
Now that I'm kegging: Far too many (10 cases)

 

[tekknoschtev]

I've got somewhere between 100 and 150 bottles in the closet. I haven't used many since I started kegging, but I've starting bottling a few 6 packs from each keg to give away/bring to gatherings, and so they're slowly getting used up.

 

[IrregularPulse]

I've got maybe 5-6 cases. Trying to get rid of 3-4.

 

[JLW]

I have around 6 - 8 cases. I use large rubber maid containers for storage they stack well and I us them for soaking bottles I can soak a case or two at a time.

 

[FromZwolle]

i'd to count them,
but as a good estimate,
you could say 13.

 

[Puckhead]

I have about 20-25 cases my self. Picked up 15 cases from the last "beer festival" I went to I would have had more but my mustang will only hold so much. about 75 grolsh bottles in 2 nice wooden crates. and 4 cases of 22 oz. SWMBO thinks its overkill but I stopped asking her opinion on my hobbies about 3 yrs ago.....

 

[Crinkle]

I've got about 15 cases. I'm giving away about half of those. If anyone is near Waterloo, IA and wants them, PM me.

 

[camiller]

OK, so I don't feel as crazy now. :rockin:

Thanks, guys.

Just because your the same as most of us doesn't mean we are not all in an asylum. :fro:

 

[JuanMoore]

I'd guess I'm over a dozen cases of bottles, and I rarely bottle anymore except a few from the keg to age or to bring to a party. I really should get rid of a bunch of them. As far as aging, I still have one bottle left from my 3rd batch, which is over 2 years old now. It's a belgian strong, and the second to last bottle was delicious a couple months ago.

 

[weirdboy]

I used to have a lot more, but nowadays I'm down to only 6-8 cases. In our old house we had a huge pantry with perfect shelves for storing cases of bottles so I had a ton of them.

However, since we bought the new place and I have switched to kegging primarily, I have made a conscious effort to eliminate the bottles as I drink them instead of keeping them around. I only have maybe a case or so of spare empties that I keep for taking stuff to parties, etc. and the rest is long-term conditioning.

 

[MazdaMatt]

I used to keg, returned my kegs for deposits when I needed space and money. Started making wine, then I saw a guy selling 186x500mL Grolsch bottles for 40 bucks and decided I had to have them and I had to start putting beer in them. Sold a bunch to my buddy at my cost, so I'm down to about 130 of them. Started brewing again on saturday.

Obligatory dancing banana:

 

[Wberry]

Sitting on about 18 cases and another 4 with beer in them. The company where my wife and I work, did an Irish drinking play and I was able to abscond with about 14 cases by the time the show closed. Too bad I couldn't make away with the 2 kegs, CO2 bottle and regulator they used as well. The best part is they are all the same bottles, and the crew was nice enough to keep all the original packaging!

 

[dfc]

Just because your the same as most of us doesn't mean we are not all in an asylum. :fro:

The sun is tractor.

 

[hamiltont]

Ummm... I think I may have a problem... I have somewheres around 55 cases of bottles and 16 kegs. Most of the bottles are empty now but the kegs aren't. Cheers!!!

 

[dfc]

Haha. Some of you guys put me to shame.

 

[iijakii]

I had about 10 cases. Gave away all but 2ish when I started kegging.