2L soda bottles

[poptarts]

Where would one go to buy 2l soda bottles? I Need like 10 or so and I feel kinda bad buying them from the dollar store and then just dumping out the soda. Is there a cheaper option? Maybe one slightly more expensive that will get me clean de-labeled bottles?

 

[DrunkleJon]

I would almost just raid the local recycling center or my neighbors recycling buckets and clean and de-label them myself. Otherwise if you do not need them right away talk to friends and family, just be sure to remind them to rinse them first and not drink directly from the bottle.

 

[IslandLizard]

I would almost just raid the local recycling center or my neighbors recycling buckets and clean and de-label them myself. Otherwise if you do not need them right away talk to friends and family, just be sure to remind them to rinse them first and not drink directly from the bottle.

I lived in a small city (in North Eastern Pennsylvania) where people have been raiding recycling bins for aluminum cans the past 6 years. I mean they fill their trunks! Anything with a significant % of metal is being raided too. At some point all the copper plumbing was stolen from my basement. They didn't take anything else. The water meter was left dangling.

So with home brewing on the up, you can be starting a new trend...

 

[DrunkleJon]

I lived in a small city (in North Eastern Pennsylvania) where people have been raiding recycling bins for aluminum cans the past 6 years. I mean they fill their trunks! Anything with a significant % of metal is being raided too. At some point all the copper plumbing was stolen from my basement. They didn't take anything else. The water meter was left dangling.

So with home brewing on the up, you can be starting a new trend...

Ugh. The copper strippers. I hate those guys. Especially when they go to the unfinished worksites.

If you collect enough aluminum you can get a few bucks, and when you live in a place like I do where the curbside recycling is a joke (I keep hearing that they just throw it away with the rest of the garbage) I do not see why some enterprising individual shouldnt be able to grab your cans out of your bin and sell the metal.

 

[TonyG]

You can usually find 2l bottles of soda water for under a dollar each, and you don't have to worry about residual odor/ flavor from there contents.

 

[poptarts]

Yea maybe ill just buy a couple of cases of water and reuse those bottles, then I can use that water for brewing or w/e

 

[dkevinb]

Yea maybe ill just buy a couple of cases of water and reuse those bottles, then I can use that water for brewing or w/e

You shouldn't use plastic water bottles for bottling carbonated beverages. They're not made for pressure. Soda water bottles are different. They need to be bottles that contained a carbonated beverage to start with.

 

[poptarts]

Im just looking for clear bottles to bottle skeeter pee in, they don't need to hold pressure, they just need to be air tight. I would really like just a bunch of clear beer bottles but I dont know where to get those on the cheap.

 

[Temptd2]

Try looking on your local Freecycle, or post a Wanted there, or on Craigslist's Free forum.

Barring that, I just wait til the soda is on sale and buy it for .89/bottle and pour the soda elsewhere - like the compost pile, or if I can get the sparkling water at that price, I use it to water my rose bushes and other plants! OR just add a few drops of Mio to the bottle and drink it!

 

[IslandLizard]

Ugh. The copper strippers. I hate those guys. Especially when they go to the unfinished worksites.

If you collect enough aluminum you can get a few bucks, and when you live in a place like I do where the curbside recycling is a joke (I keep hearing that they just throw it away with the rest of the garbage) I do not see why some enterprising individual shouldnt be able to grab your cans out of your bin and sell the metal.

Copper strippers? Yeah, it's ridiculous this and they can exist.
For $20-40 of scrap copper they caused a lot of damage and work. I replumbed with PEX and wanted to put a sign on the house "copper free," until I found out the city requires a permit for signs... but none for stealing or breaking in. Glad I finally sold the house last year and moved far enough away.

Now that basement would have made one wonderful brew room, with cellar condition storage in part of it. Jeez what have I done? <believe me, no worries or 2nd thoughts>.

I'm fine with the entrepreneurial spirit if you want to call it that way or selling the pilfered metal. But driving a gas guzzler with a huge trunk around town for a few hours picking up cans can hardly be more profitable than smelly. But what do we know, huh? Oh, bicycles and motor parts go on the back seat. Kids in the front of course.

 

[sparkshooter]

Not sure about "cheap," but it's easy to remove the paint from Corona bottles using a brief (2 minute) soak in CLR. Then rinse and reuse the CLR. Did it while watching TV for a 24 pack of Corona bottles. It's gonna make my ciders look purdy.

 

[poptarts]

Yea but where to get 2 cases of corona bottles on the cheap lol, my city has no glass recycling

 

[NickTheGreat]

We needed 1 gallon milk jugs for something for our wedding, so we each sent an email out around our offices. Had more of those damn things within a week than I knew what to do with.

 

[IslandLizard]

We needed 1 gallon milk jugs for something for our wedding, so we each sent an email out around our offices. Had more of those damn things within a week than I knew what to do with.

Best idea so far!

 

[sparkshooter]

Go ask a bar! Since the bottles have no return value, it'll probably be dead easy to get them.

I got my Corona bottles, swear to God, by standing outside the Beer Store here and accosting (politely) strangers as they were walking up with empties. It was awful, but now I've got lots o' bottles.