How do YOU store bottles?

[broadbill]

At the advice of someone on this board, I use the boxes that office paper comes in....holds a case of bottles. Works for me, and supply is endless...I also have a couple of plastic milk crates too.

 

[kicknbrew]

Has anybody ever seen or heard of anyone making reusable plastic 6-pack containers? I'm imagining something made of plastic that folds flat like a regular cardboard sixer, but one that would stand up to being wet during bottling, then be easy to wash and reuse batch to batch.

 

[Catt22]

I just bought a 4-pack of these beer crates. Check em out:

http://www.cwcrate.com/

 

[Nail]

Plastic milk crates work great for me. You can fit 25 bottles/crate and they are stackable. I keep a couple 12 pack and 6 pack cardboards around if I ever want to transport smaller batches but other wise the milk crates are king.

 

[Randar]

I hold onto the 12-pack cases and at our local craft beer/wine place they have TONS of boxes free to take as many as you'd like. So I stock up on wine boxes for 22 oz bottles and wine bottles and grab the 24-pack beer cases that comfortably hold 4 6-packs carriers.

 

[Lumberg1]

milk crates are king.

I have about 12 milk crates lying around my house. At least half of them are full of bottles. It's defiantly my favorite way to store bottles

 

[Acoma]

My wife got this old steamer trunk from her great grandparents that was taking up a bunch of space in my office. I call it the pirate chest. We used to have some junk in it. Since I started brewing I gave the junk away and turned it into my beer bottle pirate chest. It looks pretty sweet and I've seen them restored and they look really cool. I dont have a pic of it but heres something similar. It holds 4 cases, 2 bomber cases, and 2 12 packs. I keep them all in their original cardboard boxes and put them in the trunk.

 

[Revvy]

That's awesome, Acoma!!

 

[kicknbrew]

I just bought a 4-pack of these beer crates. Check em out:

http://www.cwcrate.com/

EXACTLY what I was looking for! (Okay, not exactly, but better!)

 

[RVB]

Best idea I've seen on here...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/my-newly-discovered-bottle-storage-unit-90478/

Clever idea. I think I know where to put my hands on an empty file cabinet. thanks.

 

[socalboomer]

I just bought a 4-pack of these beer crates. Check em out:

http://www.cwcrate.com/

Those things look GREAT - next line on my Christmas wish list!

 

[crane]

When I first started homebrewing 10 years ago I saved up these returnable cases and they have been doing me great the whole time. Unfortunately you can't get these anymore.

 

[Hamsterbite]

When I first started homebrewing 10 years ago I saved up these returnable cases and they have been doing me great the whole time. Unfortunately you can't get these anymore.

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Respect for showing your Busch in public.

 

[skylar]

Just built this shelf to store my bottles in. Depending on the bottle size it can fit 60 bottles per shelf.

 

[1fast636]

Just built this shelf to store my bottles in. Depending on the bottle size it can fit 60 bottles per shelf.

You have dimensions I would love to build one for the basement

 

[skylar]

@1fast636 I'll post dimensions when I get home. I think I may make the next one a little bit wider. It holds 10 rows of standard homebrew bottles but it appears I'm about a quarter of an inch from getting 10 rows of Guinness.

 

[dyqik]

I just bought a 4-pack of these beer crates. Check em out:

http://www.cwcrate.com/

Those things look GREAT - next line on my Christmas wish list!

I don't think we bought enough of these - it looks like the company's gone out of business this week

 

[skylar]

You have dimensions I would love to build one for the basement

12 = 2x6x24 (shelfs)
8 = 2x4x11 1/4 (horizontal sides)
4 = 2x4x48 (vertical sides)
4 = 2x4x24 (back)

Cost: $23

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Just built this shelf to store my bottles in. Depending on the bottle size it can fit 60 bottles per shelf.

That looks like a disaster waiting to happen. You should find some way to enclose the front sections.

I can see an errant arm or something bumping that, one bottle bumps another and you have a giant domino effect of bottles on the ground.

 

[ReuFroman]

Just built this shelf to store my bottles in. Depending on the bottle size it can fit 60 bottles per shelf.

That's a great idea. Looks like I'm going to have to break out the wood working tools.

 

[Hello]

I need to build something. Life is getting hectic in the pantry.