Bottles

[anthonyUK]

It is also worth trying any local indian restaurants and they usually have a load of Cobra/Kingfisher bottles.
Cobra are a bit big at 660ml but are brown and take a cap well. A bit like 50 cent :)

 

[Moley]

500ml are just wrong to me, not natural to an old fart brought up on pints.

I quite agree, you wouldn't stand for it if you ordered a pint in a pub and they only 7/8ths filled the glass.


I have never bought an empty bottle in my life, and I never will.
Ask. Pubs throw them away.

I have only ever been refused by one pub, and that was because the manager wasn't around to ask and a junior jobsworth was afraid I might cut myself on broken bottles and sue.

 

[BrotherMalice]

am at the local wetherspoons for curry night tonight may ask then if the manager is in :)

 

[Laurin]

When I am back home I like the 330ml bottles as they are the standard, but here in Britain it has to be 1pt bottles. And never cans (well if possible). In Germany there is 8cent deposit on all glass bottles and 25cent on cans and plastic bottles, that means you never find bottles and cans lying around which is nice.

 

[anthonyUK]

I see Molson Coors are starting to use aluminium bottles. Shame they are only 450ml but I'd like to see if they are reusable.

http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/New-Pro ... -aluminium

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

I just talked to the local pub, within a week I had 200 mangers bottles all the same size all the same colour, they even boxed them up for me in the origional boxes.

With a bit of effort, you could get enough bottles to start your own microbrewery specialising in bottled ale

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Forgot to add this one....I popped into the local tandoori for an after homebrew curry, said to the bloke "what do you do with your old mango barrel"? within a week I had 3 new 35 litre FVs and more on the way

 

[BrotherMalice]

I really must be more confident doing stuff like this...

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Just ask, you are really doing them a favour as they pay to get rid of them

 

[aneray]

popped into the local tandoori for an after homebrew curry, said to the bloke "what do you do with your old mango barrel"? within a week I had 3 new 35 litre FVs and more on the way

A mighty fine idea :thumb:

 

[BrotherMalice]

miserable bunch down there today

will try again another time, bloody busy there tonight, was curry night tho....

 

[RokDok]

When I am back home I like the 330ml bottles as they are the standard, but here in Britain it has to be 1pt bottles. And never cans (well if possible). In Germany there is 8cent deposit on all glass bottles and 25cent on cans and plastic bottles, that means you never find bottles and cans lying around which is nice.

If you're in Germany you can't be far from Dusseldorf/Cologne where you can get fabtastic bottles with fliptops.

Many years ago I used to work there and am seriously thinking about driving over and getting a few crates of Altbier from this place- bottles and crates and the bier for free.


http://www.uerige.de/en

RokDok

 

[RokDok]

miserable bunch down there today

will try again another time, bloody busy there tonight, was curry night tho....

Sunday morning is the time to ask nice and quiet, and after the peak selling period of the bottles you want- say you'll put a fiver in one of the charity things on the bar, they can't be that mean.

RokDok

 

[Laurin]

There are a quite a few beers which come in flip top bottles. I come from Hamburg which is up north and you can get Flensburger there (see my avatar) its quite a bitter pilsener and one of my favourite beers.
Actually one of my flatmates here in Cornwall got two crates of flip top bottles which he brough along from Germany with a car from holidays. And the nice thing is all the bottles in Germany come in crates of 24 or 30. That's always the first thing I get when I am going back a crate of beer and than my mates come around.

 

[BrotherMalice]

I am going to be 200 miles away from my local this sunday and I dont think SWMBO would be too impressed with the idea of carting a load of beer bottles across the country just for my home brew.... not at least until she has tasted it...

 

[BrotherMalice]

Gah! Popped to the local big tesco's this morning to pick up some bottles for my 1st brew while I wait to get glass bottles and they were out of stock - May have to order them online and collect in store in a few days...

 

[neil]

Thanks for the tip of asking for bottles in pubs, didn't think of that. Will be starting 2nd brew soon, so i've a while to try & stock up on bottles :drunk:

 

[LeffeFan]

Hi all. I know this thread has no posts for a few weeks but I'm looking at the pub route for bottles and was wondering if there was a quick n cheap way to get labels off. Some I've tried are welded on! Leffe come of easy, which is handy as the beer is nice too.

 

[alanywiseman.]

The glue is either oil or water based. Try soaking in warm water and if the label didn't come off I tend to wrap it in a oil soaked piece of kitchen roll (veg oil works fine). Leave it a day or so then have another go.

I have just resorted to using bulmers and magners bottles only. Labels come off very easily and they are a full pint :thumb:

Budweiser bottles are good if you want 300-330ml bottles

 

[Laurin]

Crabbies is quite hard to get off. Koppaberg is easy. I just soaked them in soapy water. For tougher ones I heard you can use a cloth with vegetable oil and let it sit on the glue for a bit.