Champagne bottles

[Hop Bomb]

Post pics in your add if you can. Cheers Eoin

[irish_goat]

Most restaurants would be able to provide a couple of Champagne bottles every week if you ask nicely.

[Hop Bomb]

Im after brown/amber glass. Brouwland have 750ml belgian beer bottles which are perfect. 

http://www.brouwland.com/en/?gclid=CISTzu7x4bkCFck72wodl08AEQ

[Eoin]

Im after brown/amber glass. Brouwland have 750ml belgian beer bottles which are perfect. 

http://www.brouwland.com/en/?gclid=CISTzu7x4bkCFck72wodl08AEQ

Any reason green is no good? The geueze bottles I have are from Cantillon and the like, surprised that green is an issue. Am honestly curious.

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[Tom]

Back onto champagne bottles, Sainsburys etc. do cheaparse Buck's Fizz in champagne bottles for not much more than (if) £3.

You could drink one, pour away the rest... They're £2 each empty on Amazon or whatever I just searched. And you'd probably have to pay delivery.

[Will_D]

Wherever you live ask yourself "Where do people who get married round here hold the reception?"

Then pop round and politley ask about the empty champagne bottles I am sure most would be delighted you would take them away.

While you are at it casually mention craft beer and its mega rise in popularity!

!Simples!

[Hop Bomb]

Cheers for all the suggestions lads. Its brown glass I want (like white gypsy). All the actual champagne bottles Ive seen are green. Thats grand for wine or sour beers but if I want to be able to use them for cellaring & aging beer I need brown glass. Less skunk/light pollution (i dont have an underground cellar) 

*cue brown glass v green glass debate

[Will_D]

They come in carboard boxes! And if its really a posh do: Wooden boxes!

[Eoin]

Cheers for all the suggestions lads. Its brown glass I want (like white gypsy). All the actual champagne bottles Ive seen are green. Thats grand for wine or sour beers but if I want to be able to use them for cellaring & aging beer I need brown glass. Less skunk/light pollution (i dont have an underground cellar) 

*cue brown glass v green glass debate

Ok cool, yeah green does skunk alright.

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[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Cheers for all the suggestions lads. Its brown glass I want (like white gypsy). All the actual champagne bottles Ive seen are green. Thats grand for wine or sour beers but if I want to be able to use them for cellaring & aging beer I need brown glass. Less skunk/light pollution (i dont have an underground cellar) 

*cue brown glass v green glass debate

How much is Leffe in the supermarket? Bottles of Leffe Blonde & Leffe Bruin are my cheapest source of 750ml brown bottles. As a bonus, they are really nice to drink too. I use them for highly carbonated sparkling wines (2 x heaped teaspoons per bottle).

The white gypsy bottles look to be the same as the meantime IPA/porter bottles. You might be able to get them as well, but they will be priced around the same as WG.

[Hop Bomb]

Ive contacted Meantime & White Gypsy & no reply (i didnt really expect one anyway). Our barrel aged RIS is getting bottled before xmas so I dont fancy having to buy & drink 30 bottles to have enough empties (i need those calories for my own beers) Im going with the ones from Brouwland - they're cheap & new so no hassle trying to get labels off, get them clean etc.

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Thats annoying WG is a small outfit, which probably means they are too snowed under to spend much time on social media.

Meantime are pretty big, but that means you may not get through to non-marketing types. I might see if the twitter verse might know the source.

Lastly - WG & Meantime bottles are dead easy to cleanly de-label.

[Hop Bomb]

A lot of time, effort & patience has gone into the barrel aged RIS. If a home brewed beer ever deserved new glass its this one.

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Ive contacted Meantime & White Gypsy & no reply (i didnt really expect one anyway).

The London brewers are pretty active on twitter:
https://twitter.com/sumofallbeer/status/382516706934919169

info@eu.o-i.com is their supplier: http://www.glass-catalog.com/en/detail/product-004777

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

A lot of time, effort & patience has gone into the barrel aged RIS. If a home brewed beer ever deserved new glass its this one.

I am thinking that I might start using my stash of meantime bottles for a similar premium beer. In some aspects they are easier to bottle.