Favorite Beer you buy to save the bottles?

[jamescb77]

my favorite bottles are paulaner(sp) bottles the label comes right off and they make pretty good beer. right behind that is sam adams and i get a lot of these because me and the gf both like them i need to double to triple my collection though if anyonehas any extra feel free to throw them my way

 

[CarlLBC]

mine is becks. cheap, good and the labels come off easy. I've heard they do something to the green glass to help prevent skunking, unlike other green bottles. also the sweetwater amber bottles.

 

[Chris Z]

I've been storing up Grolsch bottles for my first batch (soon to come). It's not the best beer but for the price of empty ones vrs full ones I'll drink it and end up with the bottles.

I"m wondering why more people do not prefer them? I've yet to bottle, but the self capping really appeals to me? Is it a prefernece or am I missing something?

cz

 

[toddrod]

Bass and Becks Amber if I am buying. For free I get clear Barq's rootbeer bottles from a local restuarant. Remember they are free.

 

[TwoHeadsBrewing]

24oz Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale, Pale Ale, etc. I'm currently trying to replace all my 12oz bottles with 24oz, and I like the 24oz better than the 22oz. Plus, it's good beer on top of that!

 

[Stratotankard]

I like the local (downtown) Diamond Bear bottles. Looks like a Sam Adams without the writing and their labels just slide off after a couple minutes in hot water. The Presidential IPA they make is also really nice.

 

[shecky]

Magic Hat bottles are the choice here. The beer is great and they seem to use an economy of glue so the labels peel off with ease, so much so that my 3-year-old daughter does the peeling for me (under close supervision, of course). After a short soak in Oxyclean, the glue residue rinses right off.

 

[JMD87]

Hofbrau bottles are great. The labels just fall off with no glue residue, they're green but I don't mind. Plus the beer = tasty.

 

[nathan]

I had it in my head that "regular" bottles (pop top) were not suitable for reuse by home brewers who were bottle conditioning/priming. Is this not the case? If I've been mistaken then I've tossed hundreds of suitable bottles. I have only ever kept the thick glass bottles from things like Young's and Schlenkerla. The beer in those is not cheap!

I might actually consider 12oz bottles if I were just getting them for free with my regular beer selection.

 

[Homercidal]

Most any bottle with a pop top (not screw top) can be used successfully. Also, some people actually use screwtops, but I wouldn't, simply because I can get a vast quantity of pop tops anyway. Some of the bottles I've used, like Bass, look pretty thin, but seem to work fine. None broken yet. That's probably the thinnest bottle I've used.

A new favorite of mine is the Wytchwood bottle. It's larger, and more suitable for summer beers, IMO, but very stout and nice-looking. I bottled some Wit recently with those.

 

[BrewBrain]

Love the Sierra Nevada 24 oz. bottles and I pick up a couple every time I go to the beer store.

Last time I was there I saw Anchor has 22 oz bombers in a short squatty bottle shaped like their 12 ouncers! If they are pop tops I'd love love love to replace all my tall 22 ouncers that don't fit in the fridge well.

 

[jfish63]

Fischer beer bottles they hold 24 oz and are a swing top.

 

[Hikeon3]

Red Hook bottles. Labels are a breeze to remove and they have awesome on-glass textures. Plus a nice Red Hook ESB after a hard day's work is just too good to pass up.

 

[Smogre]

I'm a fan of Bridgeport IPA bottles.

I do not like New Belgium Bottles.

 

[Evan!]

I'm sure it's been mentioned but, Samuel Smith are the BEST pint bottles on the planet! Twice the thickness it seems and just dark as night. Great lines as well.

Oh, yeah, and the clear glass really does an excellent job of skunking the hell out of your beer...

 

[Evan!]

I love those 10oz Belgian bottles. There's just something so noble about them. And sometimes I only want 10oz, but I don't wanna hit the kegs. The obvious problem, however, is that they're normally reserved for pricey Belgians...Rochefort et al.

 

[PseudoChef]

Oh, yeah, and the clear glass really does an excellent job of skunking the hell out of your beer...

All the Sam Smith bottles I have are all brown.

 

[Evan!]

All the Sam Smith bottles I have are all brown.

Hm, then perhaps they've changed their ways. It's been awhile since I bought any.

 

[Shaggy]

I'm sure it's been mentioned but, Samuel Smith are the BEST pint bottles on the planet! Twice the thickness it seems and just dark as night. Great lines as well.

I just recently recycled a bunch of Oatmeal Stout bottles I had since I felt I didn't have the patience to get the foil off them.
Have you found an easy method?

 

[cdanprice]

For some reason I couldn't get the butterfly capper to get me a good seal. That was a while ago though, I don't bottle much anymore.

I had the same problem a few weeks ago...

 

[ohiobrewtus]

I've been stocking up on 750ml cork and cage bottles lately. I have some big beers planned for the next few months that I want to cellar for extended periods of time and I can't find the darn things online anywhere to buy them.

 

[keiths]

When I bottle I like to use Lions Stout bottles they are the thick glass ones like they used to make and return for them to refill.

 

[paulvp]

No real favorites, just anything that doesn't have engraving like Sam Adams bottles do.

 

[fat x nub]

I personally like Rogue and Sweetwater bottles. The Sweetwater labels come off easily, and the Rogues are a little thicker than most. Don't know how far reaching the Sweetwaters are though, I'm only about an hour from Atlanta.

im from atlanta too... i have re-used sweetwater before too and they are easy to seal and the labes come off easy. but i think that sweetwater doesnt leave the southeast if that far

 

[menschmaschine]

I love the bottles from Ayinger and Weihenstephaner... thick, brown, 1/2 Liter, and no problems with my butterfly capper.

 

[The Govna]

We have a great micro here in MI - Bells Brewing Co. I buy their beer almost exclusively when I'm not buying McEwan's Scotch Ale or Mackeson's XXX.

 

[Hell Brew]

I've been stocking up on 750ml cork and cage bottles lately. I have some big beers planned for the next few months that I want to cellar for extended periods of time and I can't find the darn things online anywhere to buy them.

http://www.northernbrewer.com/bottling.html
http://morebeer.com/view_product/7323/102304/Belgian_Style_Beer_Bottles_12_per_case

Here you go!

 

[Freezeblade]

Any of the St Sebastiaan bottles, not only is the beer great, but the earthenware swing-top bottles are really really cool. I'm bottling my mead in them, I just wish I could find a place that sells bottles from the company MKM Keramics (the company that makes them)

 

[BeerPressure]

I'll use any brown pop-top bottles.

 

[bob1852]

Longhammer - I love the hop texture on the bottle.