Reusing beer/wine bottles

[Rivenin]

So, in the years of drinking beer, recycling the bottles/smashing them/juggling them/breaking them. i got tired of taking everything to get recycled or get the depoist back for them.
Then i got into brewing and started hoarding them like a mofo (as we all do) and now that im' kegging, i bottle very rarely if much at all anymore... so i got into looking around the net and getting ideas with the girlfriend on how we could reuse them!
So, i thought this would be an interesting post to see what you guys do with them in a reusable fashion

Found this one while searching about wine and champagne bottles.

http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/diy-project-eriks-recycled-wine-bottle-torch.html

so i took on that project, but not wall hung, just put them onto the patio set.

ignore the labels just threw them together to see how well they worked, next project is delabeling them

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Then the Girlfriend found the idea for Garden beds for the backyard
(this isn't our backyard, but same idea)

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i started putting thumb tacks onto bottle caps (holdin onto a picture of said GF)

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next project is taking off the top and making some into candles and glasses.

what do you guys do with all your extras?

 

[dawgmatic]

I fill mine up, but I will be looking into that wine bottle torch now that its getting warmer

 

[flushdrew42]

i tend to put beer in my used bottles... better to drink than lamp fluid

 

[mb82]

Kinda digging the wine torch for the girlfriends place. For mine it would need to be a bourbon bottle

 

[CaptainLongneck]

Even when not putting any beer in them, any good brewer knows never to part with good glass.