Do you keep your empty bottles?

Is there a market to trade off my empty rare bottles?? I ask this because I dont wanna throw them out but dont really have anywhere to put them at the moment and I could have sworn Ive seen a few threads of people offering to trade empties.

 

Best method ever is Hot water with a tiny bit of Oxiclean. labels fall off perfect usually takes the glue right off the bottle as well. I use the Oxiclean Versatile Free since i use the bottles for homebrew..

I just took off some founders and Firestone walker labels. They came off so easy

 

Bottle caps only, I would need a second cellar to keep my empties....

 

Firestone Walker and Great Divide labels fall right off in a water/baking soda solution. Leave them covered for 15-20 minutes and you won't even have to peel them off. Avery come off, too, but they fall apart when they do.

 

I basically just have a dedicated shelf in my kitchen where there is basically no other use for it. I have about a dozen there. There is also a shelf in my room where I keep 10-20 bottles if I really like the artwork or the beer was just world-class. They do take up so much space and when they build up I usually just clear out 90% of them and keep the few I really like. I also re-use a ton of them for hombrewing.

 

I used to keep every bottle around when I started reviewing beers; after a year or two I ran out of room and took them back for a huge deposit.

 

I do for my friends that homebrew, other than that I recycle them... which makes for a whole lot of recycling!

 

I've only kept two empty bottles - Fou Foune because it is arguably my favorite beer and Isabelle Proximus because it was also world class and I'll most likely never drink another bottle.

 

I save a few here and there if the bottle is painted. Nothing with paper labels these days. A photo is good enough in that case.

 

Save all my caps, in a jar with a candle. Labels saved, will frame some.

 

I just started keeping a single bottle of each different one I try. I started this about 4 months ago and I almost all the way around the shelves in the garage... So I might just do what some of you guys are saying and just keep the rares and really nifty art and recycle the rest.

 

I try to be more selective now, as shelf space in the garage is dwindling.

 

I keep some. Bruery release, mainly, but my Fiance loves New Belgium's Lips of Faith bottles, so they're one a shelf in the guest room

 

my buddy jules collects all the sweet craft bottles we drink so when I go over to his apartment I can check out all the really good beers I have had. It is like having a beer museum I can drink beer in.

 

I'd like to but I don't have the room. So the bottles unfortunately don't make it, to the recycling bin they go. I do have a few bottles on display though...CBS, BT, Dark Lord, DFH Bitches/Fort, and Alpine Expo.

 

I keep a few a few empty bottles on top of my fridge that have nice artwork. This morning as I was getting cream out of the fridge for my coffee a dogfish head portamarillo fell off. It bounced twice before smashing into a million little pieces. That added about 15 minutes of sweeping to my morning.

 

i lined the top of all my cabinets across my kitchen as sort of a decoration, and recently ran out of room so now im just replacing less impressive ones with rare ones. i like to look up at them now and then and try to remember the taste profile of each one. pliny makes two appearances!

 

I try keep one of each unique beer i drink. I'm somewhere between 200 and 300 now...

 

As with many have been collecting on the kitchen cabinets lately but filled up quick. Will have to pick & choose soon.