Don't re-use Fat tire bottles. Just bottled in a handful of these bottles for the 2nd time and got sheared necks on almost every one. This is following washing and sanitization in the dish washer, possible the heat caused the issue but havnt had a problem with others.
Wouldn't mind any bottles people are offering to send, SWMBO is getting tired of me buying the more expensive beer for the bottles when I have beer on hand
Funny, the first bottle of homebrew I ever drank was out of a New Belgium bottle.
Here in China, most commercial brews reuse their half-liter glass bottles, and the same is true of 250 mL sodas (which come in super-thick bottles that weigh twice as much as my US 12 ouncers). I walk into the local village, find a shop that's got a few crates of empties, and give them the deposit value of $3 for either a dozen beer bottles or two dozen soda bottles (six liters either way). If I find imperfections like nicked lips or bases, I put them in a crate to return later on. They don't care about the condition since they can get the deposit money back from the distributor either way as long as the bottles aren't clearly broken.
If I were to buy beer for the bottles, I'd be screwing myself in the end: the more I buy, the less I get to brew...