Looking for empty Crooked Stave bottles

Discussion in 'Mountain' started by Tarheel4985, Oct 28, 2013.

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  1. Tarheel4985

    Tarheel4985 Zealot (538) Sep 14, 2010 Colorado
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    My first batch of sour beer is finally ready to package, and I'm hoping to package it all (40-50 gallons) in the 375 mL Belgian Style crown finish bottles that Crooked Stave uses. I'm not sure if any of you save your bottles, but I am trading a bottle of the finished beer for a case of 12 empties. This batch is a burgundy sour aged with several strains of Brett, Pedio, and Lacto in a 3rd use Bourbon barrel for over a year. There are a lot of fruit variants as well (Pluot, Peach, Nectarine, Blackberry, Blueberry, and Mango).

    Let me know if you have any bottles for trade and I'll make sure you get some once it's packaged.
     
    #1 Tarheel4985, Oct 28, 2013
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  2. RuckusDu

    RuckusDu Savant (1,101) Mar 23, 2011 Colorado

    I can start saving you some going forward. Don't have any currently as they all went in the recycling.
     
    #2 RuckusDu, Oct 28, 2013
  3. chicano4craft

    chicano4craft Initiate (0) Apr 18, 2009 Colorado

    I have around 20 bottles. If you don't mind, about half have wax on the neck.
     
    #3 chicano4craft, Oct 28, 2013
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  4. Prospero

    Prospero Pooh-Bah (2,680) Jul 27, 2010 Colorado
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    Do these cap with normal 12oz. caps?
     
    #4 Prospero, Oct 28, 2013
  5. flowersjg

    flowersjg Aspirant (255) Jul 8, 2009 Colorado

    Be careful when you cap them. More than half of the CS bottles I've tried to cap have shattered at the neck. I've given up on using them. It's a bummer having 375mL of beer full of tiny shards of glass.
     
    #5 flowersjg, Oct 28, 2013
  6. poonamibaxter

    poonamibaxter Pundit (836) Jun 26, 2007 Colorado
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    I would rather be sodomized by an angry bear than hand bottle 40-50 gallons of beer. Why don't you keg it for fucks sake? Are you at least gonna smoke a lot of meth while bottling?
     
    #6 poonamibaxter, Oct 29, 2013
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  7. mklever42

    mklever42 Initiate (0) Apr 28, 2012 Colorado

    Yes. I reuse them for my homebrews.
     
    #7 mklever42, Oct 29, 2013
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  8. Tarheel4985

    Tarheel4985 Zealot (538) Sep 14, 2010 Colorado
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    Thanks, I appreciate you saving them for me.
     
    #8 Tarheel4985, Oct 29, 2013
  9. Tarheel4985

    Tarheel4985 Zealot (538) Sep 14, 2010 Colorado
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    Those would be great. I'll figure out how to get the wax off.
     
    #9 Tarheel4985, Oct 29, 2013
  10. Tarheel4985

    Tarheel4985 Zealot (538) Sep 14, 2010 Colorado
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    I will be kegging some of it but I want to bottle a lot of it for cellaring, giving them away, and submissions for competitions.
     
    #10 Tarheel4985, Oct 29, 2013
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  11. guyforget

    guyforget Initiate (0) Nov 12, 2009 Colorado

    my wife already thinks have too many FULL crooked stave bottles, i dont even want to know what she'd have to say about keeping my empties too!
     
    #11 guyforget, Oct 29, 2013
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  12. jedwards

    jedwards Initiate (0) Feb 3, 2009 California

    If you're capping them with a butterfly capper, you need to use the 29mm metal brackets (that brace against the neck -- in most butterfly cappers you just pop them out and turn them around) and the 26mm bell. The neck is wider than a typical bottle.
     
    #12 jedwards, Nov 1, 2013
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  13. arminjewell

    arminjewell Initiate (0) Feb 12, 2009 Michigan

    I also can start saving up some bottles, as I know I'll be drinking some of them in the near future. Let me know when you need them by and I'll make sure to have them drunk by then!
     
    #13 arminjewell, Nov 3, 2013
  14. Tarheel4985

    Tarheel4985 Zealot (538) Sep 14, 2010 Colorado
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    If anyone has any bottles available, I'm ready to bottle the nectarine and blackberry batches. I'm sweetening the deal and offering a bottle of sour for every 6 empties. They both turned out pretty great and these are just the first of 8 fruit batches, so if you don't have any ready yet I'll definitely need more shortly.

    PM me if you have bottles available and I'll arrange pickup. Thanks in advance!
     
    #14 Tarheel4985, Nov 24, 2013
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