You know you're doing well when...

[Clint]

Milk crates..they are a bit wobbly to stack but free...if you can get some.

 

[Falco]

Most of the craft beer now comes in cardboard boxes. Cheaper, only the big companies collect the bottles and reuse them so use crate's

Yeah, speaking to one of my local craft beer outlets that seems to be how it is. There’s loads of eBay sellers asking silly money for single crates and Freecycle and Gumtree not turned up anything either.

Milk crates..they are a bit wobbly to stack but free...if you can get some.

That’s the thing Clint, they’re as as rare as dobby horse shite

Used to have some but gave them away thinking I wouldn’t need them again, how wrong I was

 

[Clint]

Alternative...if you have a shed or garage maybe some shelves?

 

[samale]

I have a load of the old Guinness type Ones.

 

[Falco]

I have a load of the old Guinness type Ones.

I’ll gladly take them if you’re somewhere nearby in Cheshire

 

[samale]

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I’ll gladly take them if you’re somewhere nearby in Cheshire

Sorry not even close I am in Ireland

 

[samale]

Check your local bars

 

[stan.distortion]

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Sorry not even close I am in Ireland

If you're anywhere near the Dublin/West Wicklow border I could certainly use a few. Almost run out of space and I'd been planning on making some wooden crates if the local boozers can't spare any.

 

[Falco]

Check your local bars

Certainly will mate

 

[Fireside Ales Homebrewery]

Looking at Clints stash makes me ask the question as a returning brewer where’s a good source for bottle crates for not much money?

Got mine from me local

 

[Barley Rubble]

As I have plenty of time on my hands (furloughed until 31/07/20), and that I have ready access to as many pallets as I can use from my eldest son's engineering firm, I will mostly be making wooden beer crates.

 

[Barley Rubble]

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Plus a batch just bottled...and brew day tomorrow!
Hooray!

Nice stash Clint. I am a little way behind you (like about 4 crates, but I'm working on it!

 

[phildo79]

Eff bottles! I'm never going back, I tells ya!

 

[cushyno]

Milk crates..they are a bit wobbly to stack but free...if you can get some.

Mortons Dairies by the look of it, just down the road from me in Lydiate!

 

[samale]

Eff bottles! I'm never going back, I tells ya!
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Do you just connect the gas when your ready to serve

 

[phildo79]

Yes. I don't normally have 3 kegs in there. Usually just 2 and the gas. I have flow control taps directly on the posts so just hook up the gas when needed. I just realised I can get all 3 kegs in plus the gas bottle. Tight AF but doable. Another option would be 4 tall kegs and taps on the outside. But that's a project for a later date.

 

[Gingerbrews]

I got a load of old plastic Irn Bru crates from the bowling club along the road. Great for beer bottles and they stack securely