Which beer bottles are worth saving for bottling home brew?

[Chadwick]

I'll be saving all recommended bottles. Thanks everyone for your replies.

I was out today and picked up materials for my next brew, a chocolate stout, and bought some glosch (spelled right?) EZ-top bottles in 32oz sizes. I like the tops on these. They look like an easy way to do things. Anyone use these much?

 

[stevo4361]

Grolsch bottles are the cats meow man.

 

[CDGoin]

Grolsch bottles are the cats meow man.

I dont know the 1L flip tops from the local homebrew I am thinking will work really well..

 

[rybrew]

Grolsch are what I use and are very easy to use , and delabel. They seem to hold carbonation well.

 

[vinnythering]

Mine are primarily New Belgium, Dogfish Head (and others similar to this), and Corona bottles. I know, I know, clear glass is a sin, but they're readily available in my house and I store my beer in 14gal bins when not being refrigerated. I don't recommend Corona bottles, the paint is a PITA to remove. New Belgium are by far the easiest, and they're nice to look at and give a good pour. I don't like stubby bottles myself, but to each their own.

 

[eric19312]

Add Sierra Nevada to the list of keepers. Labels come off very easy.

 

[dtfleming]

Saranac labels come off easy

 

[StonesBally]

I always save Bell's and Sam Adam's bottles as they come off very easily with just a soak in plain water. I basically don't save anything else as they require too much effort/chemicals to get off. Short's labels are my bane as so many people around here drink it and I could get bottles very easily.

 

[iaefebs]

I always save Bell's and Sam Adam's bottles as they come off very easily with just a soak in plain water. I basically don't save anything else as they require too much effort/chemicals to get off. Short's labels are my bane as so many people around here drink it and I could get bottles very easily.

Every time someone posts their easy, no fail method to easily remove a beer label I want to send them a Shorts beer bottle.

 

[StonesBally]

Yes Short's is the worst. What do they use for adhesive? I could probably get a thousand Short's bottles, but I don't have the patience to clean those labels, not in a million years.

 

[alphagolf]

I have the same problem as saxman. When I have used bottles with close second lip I will get 1-2 bottles a batch that brake apart when I open the beer (cracked during capping). The ones I was using were boulevard and summit.

My top reuses are Sam Adams, New Belgium and New Glarus all which have been mentioned in this post.

 

[CDGoin]

Foothills brewing (http://www.foothillsbrewing.com) in North Carolina, uses a plastic label on the bottles.. that pulls off in one swipe with no residue. Their Peoples Porter is good, and the Carolina Blonde isnt bad either.

I personally just love the fact the labels pull off with no residue.

 

[yooders]

I'm sitting on about ten dozen cleaned and de-labeled bottles, most of them Sierra Nevada and Great Lakes. Sierra Nevada's are among the easiest bottles to get labels off of IMO. Just soak them in a hot bath of water w/fragrance free OxyClean and the labels float right off.