More bottles...

[Lunchtime]

I need to pick up more bottles...Letting my current beer condition in the bottles is so hard without something else to drink. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the cases....Willing them to completion.

 

[scrawbag]

a watched smurf does not smurf.
try this instead. buy a case of the cheapest ale you can find. and one bottle of fantastic expensive ale. drink one of the cheap ones, then the expensive one. now have a cheap one and tell me does it taste better?

 

[Lunchtime]

haha I did pick up some Uber Pils and some Sierra Nevada Torpedo to sustain me until it's done.

..and some more good news. I just got myself an extra fridge and should hopefully be kegging within the year.

 

[Cimerian]

Here is an idea. While waiting for your beer to ferment try out different brews that have bottles you can reuse. I did this and now have an abundance of bottles for beer. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing

 

[Lunchtime]

I tried that but I can never seem to find those little dividers...I stop by the local stores every so often but never any luck. The bottles I do save up usually just make up for the bottles people never return....

 

[OpenContainer]

Sam Adams Cream Stout is what I'm currently using to collect bottles. Yum!!!

 

[Painty]

Using Bells Bottles,they have a huge variety of brews and bottles are the classic long neck,at least they all look uniform.

 

[thughes]

Sam Adams Cream Stout is what I'm currently using to collect bottles. Yum!!!

I like the Cream Stout......and Sam labels soak off very easily with just hot water.

 

[Calder]

I need to pick up more bottles...Letting my current beer condition in the bottles is so hard without something else to drink. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the cases....Willing them to completion.

It doesn't get easier. I have about 500 bottles (all full) and earlier this evening I couldn't figure out what was ready to drink. In the end I threw a half dozen bottles of a Citra Pale Ale in the fridge that have been in the bottle 4 weeks. Tastes great.

I have some that are a year old. I look at them, and think, they are great now, but if I drink them, then they will be gone ... I'll leave them for another time.

I really do need to clean out anything that was bottled in 2010; maybe that's a job for the Christmas to New Year break.

 

[Lunchtime]

500 bottles! wow! I hope I get to that point someday, give me some variety. Right now I work one beer at a time.

 

[msarro]

Set up a pipeline!

 

[Piratwolf]

500 bottles! wow! I hope I get to that point someday, give me some variety.

Yeah, and here I thought my 200+ was a strong collection. Still n00b

 

[C-Rider]

I need to pick up more bottles...Letting my current beer condition in the bottles is so hard without something else to drink. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the cases....Willing them to completion.

I've been buying Sierra Nevada to build up my supply of empty bottles. I'm slowly converting to "stubbies". some of the tall long necks will not fit on the top self of my apt fridge used to condition.

Haven't had a bad S.N. yet. Got a clone of Torpedo and wil be doing a side by side test on Xmas day. Hope my clone is close to the real thing.

 

[C-Rider]

a watched smurf does not smurf.
try this instead. buy a case of the cheapest ale you can find. and one bottle of fantastic expensive ale. drink one of the cheap ones, then the expensive one. now have a cheap one and tell me does it taste better?

Life is to short to drink "cheap" beer!

 

[Calder]

Haven't had a bad S.N. yet. Got a clone of Torpedo and wil be doing a side by side test on Xmas day. Hope my clone is close to the real thing.

Let's hope it's better. After all it is fresher.

 

[HopSong]

Costco's Kirkland brand ales aren't half bad and include a couple of Belgians. 24 bottles for about $18. Can't hardly buy empties for that.

 

[nukinfuts29]

Sam Adams is the only way to go for paying for bottles

 

[unionrdr]

I use a lot of craft beer bottles from DFH,Harpoon,magic hat,great lakes,sam adams,thirsty dog,franziskaner,paulaner,smithwick's,sapporo,etc. But we also drink leinenkugel's,as they have some nice sturdy 12 pack boxes. The only ones so far with seperators. We also use the sturdy boxes from labatt,magic hat,great lakes,& dundee. They def make for a smaller,more stackable pile of bottles.

 

[scrawbag]

500 bottles!!! hook it to my veins :cross:

 

[Polboy]

i just checked and i have over 300 bottles, more than half full, 10% bombers, 10% 12oz and rest old good European 0.5L (almost 17oz) and almost all of them i got from friends for free. Considering i started brewing AG in september i will definitively need more bottles and more milk crates in 2012.

 

[Calder]

500 bottles!!! hook it to my veins :cross:

Well .... it's a combination of 12s and 22s. The 500 was a rough guess of the equivalent number of 12s.

I have 360 12-ozs in boxes, and 76 22-ozs in boxes (1 box has 16 bottles). I also have a few odd size bottles that I keep on the counter (swing top - generally the first to be opened - equivalent of about 14 12-ozs bottles).

Looks like it is about the equivalent of 500 twelve ounce bottles.

Bottled last weekend; have very few empty bottles. I've had a few since then, but I would guess I have less than a case of empty bottles.