What do you do with the empties?

I save a couple weeks worth, the sneak out at night and pile 'em on the neighbor's cans at the curb...There's been raised eyebrows in the neighborhood.

 

Give them to my buddy at work who home brews....I get great beer for that. Belgian tripels, quads, plum brandy barrel dubbels, and fantastic barely wines.

Other than that, I save the cool local cans and bottles for the wall.

 

Save as many as I can, as one day, preferably the week before Mother's Day, I will befriend a postal worker who will drive me to MI for the $0.10 refund, therefore, avoiding truck rental fees. Call it a loophole, but I call it a profit.

 

This:

 

We have a recycle bin that I put them in.

 

R u my long lost brother. That is all stuff I collect.

 

Recycle them. I only keep the full ones....

 

I store mine in the garage until the local boyscout troop comes a knockin'. Those boys are really cleaning up in my neighborhood.

 

I save my favorites and recycle the rest. Unfortunately the ones I save I have to store them in my cellar as I have nowhere to put them at the moment.

 

You're single... aren't you.

 

Nope! Married 23 years!!! My wife actually started this by buying a mixed six for my birthday 22 years ago! That said. If we move again they won't be making the trip. I should also qualify that this is in my basement and not the main house. Last approximate count was 3,400-give or take a few.

 

I recycle anything I'm not going to re-use. I re-use 22 ounce brown glass bombers for my homebrewing after removing the labels.

 

Cool bottles line my brew cave, the rest get cleaned and delabeled for homebrew.

 

I counted my empty bottles for homebrew. I have 250. I cannot produce or drink my beer that fast to fill them all. I recycle any new commercial 12 oz. bottles now. I keep and reuse all the bombers I buy. Surly comes in cans. Save those for target practice then recycle.

 

Ask your buddy if he needs more bottles. Those homebrews all sound good (except for the 'barely' wine).

 

I'll call it illegal. We're watching you.

 

I have about 350 cool labeled, memorable, favorite beer bottles saved and some on shelves. Some others I refill with homebrewed beer.

 

I return all of my bottles and put the change towards more beer. Except lately me and my dad have been putting it off and it got out of hand and now we have a shed literally full of empties and a giant pile of bags of empties in my backyard. My neighbors must think were classy people. Also my mom wants to kill us.

 

Recycle everything. The full bottles in the cellar and throughout the house are enough. Plus all the beer glasses I have...my wife would never tolerate me keeping empty bottles no matter how cool they are.