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General Discussions => Brewing Communities => Belfast Homebrewers => Topic started by: Onthebrew on December 11, 2019, 02:08:18 PM

Title: Spare Bottles
Post by: Onthebrew on December 11, 2019, 02:08:18 PM
since moving to kegs ive stopped using bottles and have loads spare - if anyone is interested let me know
Title: Re: Spare Bottles
Post by: phildo79 on December 16, 2019, 12:45:47 PM
Just ordinary bottles or swing tops? I am in a similar position. I chucked out about 80 x 500ml bottles once I had enough swing tops. Now I use kegs, I have a shit ton of swing tops that I don't use. Must have over 70 Grolsch bottles... that will probably never be used again ffs.
Title: Re: Spare Bottles
Post by: Onthebrew on January 09, 2020, 12:54:38 PM
same here= i built up about 150 regular bottles and bought about 60 swing tops. i even bought a blichman beer gun over a year ago so i could fill bottles from keg. its still unused! havent used a single bottle since getting kegs about 18 months ago!
Title: Re: Spare Bottles
Post by: phildo79 on January 10, 2020, 11:27:20 PM
It's weird, innit! I spent that long collecting them, I am now finding it difficult to chuck them. I use the odd bottle when I somehow end up with slightly more beer than I had planned on brewing. But I reckon 6 swing tops would be more than enough for that. Don't know about you but I am delighted that I finally made the plunge and got kegs. Life is so much easier.
Title: Re: Spare Bottles
Post by: Roo on January 20, 2020, 08:27:54 PM
My missus was buying cases of coors light just because I wanted to change from 500ml to 330ml.....kept a few of the 500ml but Red binned the other 100 odd.....found that 330ml was a pain in the ass and went to kegs.....the refuse people were concerned about my consumption...every Monday for weeks the bins were full.
Title: Re: Spare Bottles
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on January 21, 2020, 10:00:39 AM
Like the OP, I have plenty of bottles going. Probably 150-200 x 500ml all cleaned and delabeled prior to storage. All of them are of a consistent style so may suit someone with a bench capper.

Not hijacking the OP, but thought it was better than creating another thread.

I am waterford based btw.