Beer Bottle Collection

I have started just keeping the premier stouts and BA stouts, otherwise i would need a second house if I kept everything. So something like:

Rare
Prop
BCBS
Backyard Rye
BCBCS
BA Speedway
Dark Lord
Darkness
Black Tuesday
Chocolate Rain
Pirate Bomb
BA Blackout
BBPt5
etc.

 

I have a beer bottle CAP collection. I partially finished our basement and ran out of drywall on the "shop" side of the basement, so it only comes halfway up the studs at one point. Coincidentally, it's right across from my beer fridge and I have an opener mounted on the wall right over the half wall. So a few years ago I got into the habit of tossing my caps into the cavity between the wallboard. Recently my wife said "enough already" so I fished them all out and I now have them in an overflowing 5 gallon bucket. So, that's how I "display" my conquests.

I know this has absolutely nothing to do with your question(s), but thanks for indulging me.

I'll be here all week. Drive safe. Don't forget to tip your servers. Goodnight, now.

 

I keep bottles from my favorite breweries and display them above the cupboards in my kitchen. I also used to keep one from each beer I tried but it got out of control so I got rid of most of them.

 

Yes. I'm a beer bottle hoarder. I'm seeking help for it by drinking only draft beer.

 

I am pushing 500+ unique bottles with their caps and just made the decision to make one big trip to the bottle depot to recycle them all. Otherwise, I was going to end up with a glass floor in my basement. Like others have mentioned, I am keeping my favorite bottles and the caps (so I can recycle those in 10 years.

 

I don't collect bottles. But, I do have an old journal-type blank book in which I peel and tape the labels of new beers as I try them. My wife calls it my "man-diary."

 

I can tell you that floor-to-ceiling shelves made of 1x4 boards (bottles are stores one deep) and built to the exact height of the various grouping of bottles stored on each shelf will contain about 1,200 bottles along about 55 feet of wall length in my man cave.

 

La Cumbre Brewing has an impressive bottle collection displayed throughout the brewery and the bottles are from lots of sought after brews and whales and from all over the country/world. Mighty impressive. I'm always asking the beer servers how the hell Jeff, the main brewer, managed to hang on to them all, especially given that (I think) he lived in NYC where space is a premium.

Seeing that collection never ceases to amaze me and you can easily catch me marveling at them while sipping a brew there.

 

I only have a few bottles that I have kept for one reason or another.

 

I have about 275 bottles, most of which are in storage back home in Delaware. I have 58 on display above my kitchen cabinets right now which is almost out of space but, when I make my next trip to Delaware, I'm bringing back the rest and displaying those on my bookshelves where I originally had kept them. I can't wait to merge my two collections together and admire them in all their wondrous glory. Oh, and I only keep the ones that are either rare (whalez), have limited regional distribution or have awesome labels.

 

I don't have enough room to save most bottles (and my girlfriend would kill me), so I only save the rarest/coolest ones. Currently I think I'm only holding on to BCS Proprietor's, Darkness, Heady Topper, and Zombie Dust.

 

Ive got about 250 bottles currently...saw a great setup at the Gingerman in Houston Tx where they have painted 1x4s mounted about a foot from the ceiling that line the walls and the bottles displayed on those. Ive got 4 grandkids so was looking for something to keep the bottles out of harms way! Working on the mancave now and will expand into the kitchen.

 

I just got rid of well over 5k in my move.
1 bottle of every beer i ever had.
Took 2 months in the recycle bins and stacks next to it.
DONT DO IT.

 

Please tell me how you remove the labels....dear god

 

I keep all the cool/ rare bottles lined up in my beer shed.

The best way to remove labels is to soak them in hot water fully submerged and it will loosen the glue so you can carefully peal off the labels. Some actually are stickers, like Clown Shoes labels, so they can be pealed off once they get at room temp. The key is to go slow and easy.

 

I would love to collect the bottles after I drink them, but I live in a small apartment. haha! I've begun collecting my bottle caps in a mason jar. It's kind of cool, because I can shake it around, and see the different breweries I have had! Pretty cool!

 

I ended up with probably over 2000 bottle caps and now we had to start color-coding them in different mason jars and pint glasses.

 

I have tried this method and found some very easy to remove (Evil Twin, Founders, Southern Tier) to name a few that i pulled this morning, but some are just down right impossible. It seems like its always the ones that I want the most that wont come off no matter how hard I try or delicately I handle them. I was hoping for some magical soap concotion that would make them fall off...alas. Thanks though!

 

I keep minein a giant 3-4 gallon fishbowl as a centerpiece in my livingroom. We keep it classy up in my place.