Recommend a (stackable) crate for storing beer bottles

[Calypso]

Ideally, I'd like a rugged (plastic) container that holds four six packs, without a lot of moving around. A standard beer bottle is 2.5 inches in diameter and approximately 9" tall, so a 10"x15"x10" would be a tight fit. 11"x16"x10" would be comfortable. A standard 24 quart milk crate is 13"x19"x11", so it would work but that leaves a fair amount of slop.

So, what works for you? I'm open to other ideas entirely.

 

[CGish]

I build my own boxes and made them approx 11"x16"x12". I made dividers out of used cardboard so the 12 oz bottles would not rattle against each other. I can also take the dividers out and put larger 16 oz, flip top, and 24 oz bottles in the boxes.

The milk crate dimensions you list are close to my box dimensions, and I think you could quickly and easily make dividers that would absorb the extra space and protect your bottles.

My build thread - along with the divider pattern - is here, if this idea interests you.

Good Luck,
Cody

 

[Hobanon]

I use milk crates with crumpled newspaper as spacers. Down side is they won't stack when full of bombers.

 

[justenoughforme]

milk crates and be done with it.

is space THAT much of a premium in whatever closet or cellar these will be living in ?

 

[Calypso]

milk crates and be done with it.

is space THAT much of a premium in whatever closet or cellar these will be living in ?

Oh, it's not that. It's that when I'm carrying them around, I don't want the bottles banging around. But I like the idea of building some dividers like CGish.

 

[justenoughforme]

got it.

mine get cellered, and only carried out a few at a time, i just leave them in one place forever, so i didn't think about carrying them around

 

[Onkel_Udo]

got it.

mine get cellered, and only carried out a few at a time, i just leave them in one place forever, so i didn't think about carrying them around

You don't take your homebrew for a walk? Next thing you know you will tell me you do not read them bedtime stories or sing "Soft Kitty" to them when they are sick.

 

[Calypso]

You don't take your homebrew for a walk? Next thing you know you will tell me you do not read them bedtime stories or sing "Soft Kitty" to them when they are sick.

Everyone knows that yeast work faster if you sing to them.

 

[justenoughforme]

thank you for a good laugh

seriously though, where do they jingle all around to ? ...place in closet... leave for month ...

 

[unionrdr]

I'm trying to whittle mine down to two case boxes & one 12'r box per batch. Smaller stack that way & they have dividers.

 

[NoahBeach]

Didn't see "mobile" in the requirements, and can't take credit for it, original post here.

Gist of the post:

"(10) six packs per shelf = 240 bottles per cabinet."

But about the best bottle storage (density and ease of access) unit you can find, and they are cheap, on craiglist in my area all the time for either free or less than $20.

 

[NoahBeach]

Double post.

 

[brewcat]

Files go to shredder. Beers go in filing cabinet. Cool. I personally just keep them in cardboard beer boxes and stack them.

 

[z-bob]

A stackable milk crate holds 25 longneck bottles perfectly. Or sixteen (I think) 1L PET soda bottles. I've started getting rid of my shortneck bottles, like Sierra Nevada, even tho' I like them better because they don't fit properly in a milk crate -- it'll only hold about 23 and then they fill too loosely.

ETA: I wrote 12 1L soda bottles and then changed it to 16 because I couldn't visualize how 12 could be right. I had it right the first time.