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    Glass Bottles

    Not sure if this is the right forum for glass bottles but wasn't sure if it fit in the non metal forum. Been picking up crown cap pry off beer bottles and cork sealed wine bottles along with aluminum cans at CurbCo lately, in part I've decided to get into homemade hard ciders and wines and eventually beer as even the cheap swill I like to buy isn't all that cheap because I gotta actually buy it as opposed to making my own.

    Thinking about selling the excess bottles I collect to homebrewers and wine/cider makers after cleaning and delabeling the bottles. That on top of the cans to use to buy ingredients should help me get more self sufficient. I can acquire alot of bottles worth more than cans to sell for reusing (wow, many of people spend alot more on alcoholic beverages than me and my drinking buddies!) So I've been stockpiling more than I currently need (got a couple bottle cappers, haven't used any bottles yet but just use canning jars ATM), clean them up and delabel, put a box of three dozen on CL. I score alot of 12 oz longnecks, many plain but plenty with manufacture castings. Wine bottles are way so diverse I don't have very many matching bottles. Just curious if there's anybody else doing the same, and into homebrewing and cider/wine making. Sure don't have any competition with bottles as I do with cans.

    Homemade is so much better than the leading commercial urinewater out there and way cheaper than quality craft brew.


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    There are also some rum bottles and the likes that maple syrup makers would want. Not really sure if that is done in your area, but if it is could be another way to market it

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    Now that's something I'm going to look into, thanks Longhairboy. We don't have any Sugar Maples here in the PNW that I'm aware of but we have lots of Big Leaf Maples and I've read they produce good syrup. We also have an abundance of berries, both wild and farmed that could be used to make syrup too.

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    Only reason I know is because we make syrup and always ask people to save rum bottles for us

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    This unit uses "bubble caps" the one I made used a packed column.




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    That looks like it'll make some high octane fuel.

    Sold three dozen bottles, was asking $15 but the guy gave me $20 and wants more, looks like I'll be busy next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Soobthang View Post
    That looks like it'll make some high octane fuel.

    Sold three dozen bottles, was asking $15 but the guy gave me $20 and wants more, looks like I'll be busy next week.
    I had been researching bubble caps a few weeks before coming across this little distillery in Oliver B.C.. The owner gave me a tour, after asking at what proof the spirits came off and was told 86% this blew my mind as my packed column made 96% first run.

    Everyone is giving way to much credit to bubble caps being superior when in truth a packed column will out perform the caps..

    The copper unit is Government licensed to produce spirits for human consumption while the one I had built made alcohol to be used as a fuel additive.

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