Buying beer bottles

[WillG3]

Where is the cheapest place to buy beer bottles from for my homebrew beer?

The websites i have been looking at seem very pricey, with 75 bottles coming to over £50.

Is this a reasonable price?

 

[markpeace]

I use ampulla.co.uk - they're driving distance from me though, which makes them super cheap.

 

[calumscott]

I've bought nearly all *cough* several hundred *cough* of mine from tesco, sainsbury's, the coop and some local retailers and a few breweries.

Handily enough, they all came filled with lovely beer... :thumb:

 

[Sandimas]

Scrounge them off your mates / local pubs / recycling.

ISTR you have a couple of hotels/pubs in Castle Douglas, ask if you can have their recycling

 

[calumscott]

You've got a brewery too! And a damn fine one at that - The Grace is a particular favourite of mine...

They are most amiable and would, I'm sure, be able to source you some nice fresh bottles at a price if you asked, after all they'll be buying them by the thousand!!

 

[loady]

Yep, pubs pay to have their recycling taken away, they will love you..my local is a Youngs, they saved me all the clear bottles for a couple of months, 200 i ended up with, my favourite bottles though are the Sheppard neames, the labels just come away with soaking, the Youngs ones are spot welded on.

 

[alanywiseman.]

No. You local pub will have a few empties that I am sure they will be happy to give you.

Try and get brown bottles as they stop skunking.

 

[Baz Chaz]

Local restaurant and mates, they provided all my bottles when I started up, I just 'paid' them with a few refills, certainly wouldn't buy them ......... as for 75 bottles for £50 :nono:

Booths supermarket often have bottled beers on at £1 each :!:

 

[Kinleycat]

Got down to some scrubbing today.
Cleaned up 30+ pint bottles and about 40 273/330ml bottles.
Magners ang kopperberg cleaned up the easiest.
Peroni were right b******s to clean up!!!
The lot cost me nish thanks to mates!!

 

[wilsoa1111]

would only cost u £25 delivered in coopers better bottles, might even be a saving if u reuse them enough from not using crown caps(well ten times...), these guys are real cheap if u order 8 or more crates...
http://www.innhousebrewery.co.uk/p44946 ... ttles.html
24x500ml

specially good for me, would defo destroy glass ones considering what i did to HDPE ones

 

[bigboots]

Why not teach yourself/ family/ friends to like(?) Tesco own brand coke/diet coke. Were on offer at 6x500ml bottles for £1.50.
PET bottles @25p each + free coke!
:

 

[winelight]

The bar here has some porter on offer at £1.50 a bottle. I shall try to make some inroads into their stock tonight. There's a birthday party on so I shall go armed with a cardboard box and it will get filled with empties easily.

 

[rich27500]

I bought some last year for the Xmas gift beers but now I'm just selective. Never run out of bottles despite brewing 80-120 pints a month. I gave 200+ bottles away this Xmas.

 

[WillG3]

Thanks guys :thumb:

 

[Markus]

I bought my first 40 from thehomebrewcompany at about 30p (40 cent) each. Since then I've sourced them from pubs.

My bro just got me 70 from a pub. They had bought them from an off license and because the bottles were slightly different from the brewery bottles the brewery refused to lift them, so we are doing them a favour by taking them!

Just need to make sure they can be capped before you commit to a bottling session with them... I had a bad experience with half a dozen bottles of a certain brand beer recently.

 

[Maffa]

I got a load of swing top bottles (grolsh style) from the Range. £10 for 12.

http://www.therange.co.uk/make-your-own ... duct/51073

 

[anthonyUK]

I got a load of swing top bottles (grolsh style) from the Range. £10 for 12.

http://www.therange.co.uk/make-your-own ... duct/51073

I few people have problems with the range fliptops not sealing.
You may want to check them before using. I think a new washer solved it though.

 

[Maffa]

I got a load of swing top bottles (grolsh style) from the Range. £10 for 12.

http://www.therange.co.uk/make-your-own ... duct/51073

I few people have problems with the range fliptops not sealing.
You may want to check them before using. I think a new washer solved it though.

Out of 3 dozen, I had one swing top fitting that was too big. The wire that the lid used was just about 25% longer than the rest. Completely bizarre :wha:

 

[winelight]

Just need to make sure they can be capped before you commit to a bottling session with them... I had a bad experience with half a dozen bottles of a certain brand beer recently.

I find you can cap anything, but some are so tricky it's probably not worth it. If you apply enough downward pressure on the levers it doesn't matter what shape the neck of the bottle is, but then you risk tipping the bottle over.

 

[alawlor66430]

Get to your local pubs on a Thursday with some cardboard boxes and ask them to keep all the 500 ml bottles they sell over the weekend and go pick them up on the Monday, you'll be surprised how much you end up with after a couple of weeks