What do you do with the empties?

Throwing them away is not the worst feedback I've gotten from some clients over the years. Not even close.

 

Recycle for $$$$. After the beer is gone aluminum and glass turn to Gold! @Martin_carvalho knows what's up!

 

Um throw them in the recycle barrel. Not sure they end up any other place than everything else

 

I have maybe 12-15 that I've kept to display once I get some shelving in my basement.

 

have we officially run out of things to discuss?

 

me too ... exactly

 

I have a scrapbook of sorts I keep my beer labels in. To remove them I soak them in the sink filled with hot water and a sprinkle of Oxi-Clean until the water goes luke warm, 90% of them will lift off easily. The only bottles I actually save are those that are embossed or painted, like Stone's stuff.

 

I normally keep the labels that will peal off and put them on paper and frame them..lol Ones with labels you cant get off you could use as cups with a bottle cutter! or the bottles that have the labels like Stone can be made into cups also. And the great thing about the labels that are like the one Stone uses is that if you break them then you can make a mosaic out of them or use them in some kinda art! oooohhh and i use them for my HOME BREW...almost forgot.

 

I put them in the garbage.

 

Brewers brewers please PLEASE bottle more of your beer in cans! I honestly doubt that cans really degrade the flavor- or it might impart a wee bit of a metallic taste....Think mineral water!

Cans are especially handy in the summer. It's tough to take bottles camping- and forget anything on the water- rafting is OUT. Cans fit in the cooler better and won't break. The alternative is to fill the cooler with PBR or Coors- not the worst thing, but certainly not the best.

Bottle are morphing into a total nightmare for me. My town use to accept glass for recycling but they don't do it anymore, and there is no way to recycle glass bottles, other than to take them to Missoula (120 miles one way) where I've heard you can sell plain, unembossed bottles to the Bayern Brewery. I home brew but my bottles are stacked practically to the ceiling and I have no alternative but to throw them away now. Please help! (Unless you want me to fill the cooler with Coors!)

 

I fill them with urine, recap them and leave them in public places.

 

There's not a deposit for bottles or cans around here, at least not that I'm aware of, and you can't return said bottles or cans for money so I just chuck 'em in the trash can closest to me inside the house.

 

Molotov cocktails, of course.

 

recycle them but sell the caps on eBay. Don't get a ton of money but I consider it a rebate on my beer purchases!

 

I've made a habit of collecting the bottles and cans of craft beer that I've drank (only one bottle/can per beer) but my shelf is starting to fill up

 

Collect them for a year and then rent a truck n drive to Michigan to deposit them with my friend Newman.

 

This is where my tasting group has done 20 plus tastings over the past six years. Many of the crazier bottles (Izzy, Deviation, Framboos, Blabaer, Crianza, Roos, Blauw, Wooden Hell etc.) were traded for, shared and brought by myself, rpstevens, jammalamma, straffordmilitia, GarthTaargus and Pete H. Many great memories have been forged over the years and looking at the collection definitely brings them back until the next tasting!

 

Recycle, no room for bottles. I did hang onto my depleted bottle of Pappy 20 and a couple of Porfidio with the cactus inside, but the shelves are overflowing . It's part of the hoarder trait that explains all the full bottles in my basement.

 

Recycler here... the only exception is when I travel for a vacation I might save a beer bottle as a souvenir, but only if I think it will remind me of the trip. I don't find a bottle I want to save on every trip, but sometimes I find a good one, like when I vacationed in Iceland I brought back an empty of Ölvisholt Brugghús Lava

 

Throw them all in the garbage. Don't have time to recycle. Besides they get sorted at the garbage station anyway.