What do you do with the empties?

I recycle 100% of them.

If I want to keep anything in remembrance, it's a picture on my phone.

 

Recycle when I'm in New Jersey visiting my folks, throw in the trash when I'm in Indiana at my apartment complex.

 

I have been saving bottles for homebrewing for years. I also keep labels for a project that is yet to be determined. I fill a sink with hot water and about a scoop of Oxyclean to remove labels (NOT to sanitize bottles). Typically they slide right off. Throw out screw tops, save rest for beer at later time!

 

Recycle.

 

I chuck them in the recycling bin and take them out to the street each week for pickup. Here is another option:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/anybody-else-guilty-of-an-empties-closet.170290/

 

I've saved a few over the years

Coors Light had a 22 oz Coors Light bottle in the shape of a baseball bat, for the Colrado Rockies innagural seaon, I kept that...Coors also had an Anniversary Ale in 1997 that was a tribute to the US Air Force's 50th Anniversary...you know I kept that one!!!! And for some odd reason I still have the Sam Adams Triple Bock bottle on my shelf...cool color bottle, possibly the worst beer I've ever had

 

I recycle now. i use to save the, but it got too out of hand. Imagine a room with over 300 bombers!

 

I put them in my recycling bin outside which is typically taken daily by the homeless ladies when they drag their shopping cart by

 

I keep the really cool ones. The only problem is every once in a while my wife complains about the space I'm taking up, so I have to throw a few out.

 

Save for my homebrewing. Cans and other unusables get recycled, mostly..

 

Homebrewing here too. Although I have enough to send a lot to recycling now.

 

I recycle all bottles other than a couple signed by brewers.

 

I save my absolute favorites and all large format bottles (3L+), I think I have 10 or so bottles saved right now, recycle the rest

 

So far I've been keeping one empty bottle from every new beer I try and then recycling the rest.

Not sure what I'll end up doing when the cabinet I've been putting the bottles in fills up, though it'll probably be a while before I have to worry about that since it's not even halfway full yet (and I could probably stack bottles on top of the ones that are already there if I have to. XD)

 

Recycle everything.

 

I recycle them all except big bottles (growlers, 3L+, etc), those I keep for future use.

 

I smash all the bottles, throw them on the floor and limbo across them barefooted.

 

Why, bottle homebrew in them, of course!

 

Recycle all the way