Is there a beer you buy just for the bottles?

[b-radbrew]

I've been on a New Belgium kick lately and since their labels come off super easy I've been picking up a lot of the variety packs. Plus I"m starting to get pretty fond of the bottle shape.

 

[Agate]

I almost bought a six pack of North Peak's stubby bottles today but didn't think I'd like the beer...
So is there any that you buy and force yourself to drink just for the bottles?


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I just bought a sixer of north peak today because of the bottles... And it's pretty good!

 

[Daphne-weizen]

For awhile I was drinking Lucky Beer because I thought the bottles were so cute. They are green, kinda stubby with a long neck and shaped like a buddah! The beer was meh. I thought it tasted like a lemony Becks.

 

[HopHeavy]

Have been stocking up on Sierra Nevada bottles, whatever the variety... I like the pour from the long neck and they aren't too difficult to clean up and remove labels. There is no embossing on the bottles so they are competition friendly. Now that they have an east coast brewery I suspect their availability will grow, too.

 

[Hopinista]

Lagunitas is my favorite brewery and the labels they use come off very easily. You can basically run hot water over the bottle and the label will fall off.


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you look at the bottles and the labels fall off. It's awesome.

Have been stocking up on Sierra Nevada bottles, whatever the variety... I like the pour from the long neck and they aren't too difficult to clean up and remove labels. There is no embossing on the bottles so they are competition friendly. Now that they have an east coast brewery I suspect their availability will grow, too.

Sierra Nevada doesn't use long necks.

I think Hoegaarden is just okay but I love the bottles so I buy it a lot. I also really don't like Red Hook's beer at all but I like they're unique bottles so when I see a case on sale I can't resist

 

[TheCanisDirus]

Lagunitas is my favorite brewery and the labels they use come off very easily. You can basically run hot water over the bottle and the label will fall off.


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It's odd... most of theirs come off with no effort at all... then some are nailed on! I was doing two cases of one of their variety packs one weekend and i can't remember which beers it was but two of the variety just didn't want to come off. The others floated away soaking in the buckets of StarSan.

 

[brrman]

I like the Red Hook bottles. I like the Longhammer IPA so i have lots of empties. lol

 

[stu4stew]

Guinness has the best bottles by far. Great hourglass shape. Plus plastic us easy to get off. Just shrunk wrapped on to the bottle

 

[clone63]

Around Halloween, the pumpkin ales come out, and there's a brewery that releases a pumpkin ale in a 1L (~1 quart) brown bottle with a flip-top. I do not like pumpkin ales, but I buy it for my wife, just for the bottle.

I've also bought Hacker-Pschorr (spelling?) just for the bottles, and given the beer to my wife to drink.

Haha, Howe Sound brewing's Pumpkineater. Other stuff is good too.

I ALSO buy Hacker Pschorr for the bottles, but definitely don't give it to other people. Can't stand Grolsch bottles.

Fruli comes in 250ml bottles that is very handy for wines and high grav stuff.

 

[Renoun]

I just posted about a coffee soda I've been buying for the clear 6oz bottles. Not what I want to bottle beer in but awesome for mead. My housemate took a liking to them and now I'm going to wind up with three cases worth.

That's a stubby 12oz bottle shown for scale.

 

[HopHeavy]

Well they may not be long necks... but they are still awesome! I guess I should have said I like the pour from the *somewhat shorter than industry standard* long neck. Anyone know what type they are? I can't find a better name for them...

 

[Wingnutt73]

Yup Grolsch. I love the bottles not the beer.

 

[HopHeavy]

They are definitely cool bottles. I had no idea they were shrink skins. Unfortunately, Gunness is the one thing I prefer in a can if I am going to have at home.

 

[divrguy]

I buy Hacker Pschorr for the swing tops. Not a fan but for $3.25 for 550mls is pretty good.


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Where do you find Hacker Pschorr swingtop's? I can only get them in Germany lol


Cheers!

 

[sweetcell]

i'm surprised that we're 5 pages in and no one has mentioned Duvel.

i brew a lot of highly carbed belgian beers so i'm always on the look-out for thick glass bottles. 12 oz (technically 11.2 oz) Duvels are always welcome additions to my collection. it's easy to find 22 oz/750 ml thick glass bottles, but single servings that use regular 26mm caps are harder to come by.

plus, i love me a Duvel.

 

[pdietert]

I avoided buying twist-off's when I bottled all my beer.

 

[Riot]

Sweetcell, Gulden draak and Kasteel both use those bottles as well if you like them. I'm a big fan of the bottles Rochefort uses, they store in a smaller space than those stubbies but can still handle 4+ volumes.

 

[Jason_W]

I've bought grolsch for the flip top bottles, but I actually kinda like the beer too. So, I guess it wasn't just for the bottles.

Me too

 

[Eucrid]

I love these bottles. The beers ok but 500ml flip tops are great. Plus the labels just slip right off with zero effort.

 

[chadbert1977]

I just picked up a growler of Rogue amber for $13 since it came in a new growler and I like most of Rogues offerings.


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[FishinHank]

Deschutes. Their bottles used to have the hops molded in at the base of the neck but they don't anymore. Still nice bottles to reuse though.

 

[SiriusStarr]

Chainbreaker from Deschutes, back when it came in the AWESOME hop vine bottles:

Don't get me wrong, it's a great beer, and I would happily have gone through a six pack or two. But I literally bought and drank two cases worth of it, just so I could get the bottles for my own. :rockin:

 

[froghat]

I knocked a bunch of bottles over once capping spilling beer everywhere. The next 120 beers I drank were grolsch since they cost nearly the same as buying empty ez cap bottles but they came with free beer inside. Then a year ago I finally built a keezer and donated them all to some other sap, I mean home brewer, who hates himself and still recaps bottles.

 

[sudbuster]

Here is one use for grolsch bottles..

 

[teckmaster0179]

I can't tell you the last time I really bought beer. Once in awhile, i'll pick up a 6 pack of mix and match. I have friends that are bartenders so I get my bottles for free. Probably have around 20 empty cases sitting in my basement.


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[DaNewf]

My wife will buy the occasional bottle of sparkling white wine (heavy green bottles). I've used a couple of the 750ml bottles for carbonated apfelwein. They take a standard bottle cap just fine. I have to reverse the metal tabs on my wing capper when I do this but so far so good.

I haven't used these for beer yet but wouldn't hesitate in a pinch.

 

[fuelish]

I'll use anything cappable, but, since I'm brewing meads these days, have taken to buying a 12 pack of Modelo Especial (clear bottles) now and again to have clear bottles for gifting....brown bottles stay at home. I like the Grolsch, but anymore only buy it if I need to replace the "washers" on my guitars (use 'em as straplocks, lowbudget solution that works incredibly well )

 

[skw]

I bought a 5l keg of cheap pilsener just because it was cheaper than buying an empty keg.

 

[kcmobrewer]

Collected cases of stubbies from Sierra Nevada and the like. I like Seirra Nevada, I just prefer to try new things when I go to the beer store. I keg now though, so I have my 3 cases of the stubbies sitting in the shed for when I bottle ageable beers. Other than that I don;t even bottle anymore.

 

[kubuton]

During Desert Storm I was based out of Ramstein, Germany. On my way back to the states I picked up two cases of half-liter Bitburger bottles. I still have about 15 of the them and they are my go-to bottles. Very easy to cap.