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Hi guys, where’s the cheapest place to buy swing top bottles? Thanks
 
Hi guys, where’s the cheapest place to buy swing top bottles? Thanks
Grolsh is now back in Tescos, if you want the route of drink and refill. You have an other option is to wait for someone to put a load for sale on ebay or face book and then be willing to travel to collect them. The travel is very important.

Here on this site it would help your case if you said where you live. So say someone like me reading this wanted to sell some or someone with a load spare or wanted to donate would know if your interested.

Second hand ebay records show a crate and 16 bottles is roughly selling at £25 to £35 and bottles on their own at roughly a quid, i dont know what they cost to buy new.
 
Any problem with using clear then? Also I’m using plastic at the moment but wondering how long it’ll be before the plastic taints the beer?
 
If you keep your beer in clear bottles you need to keep them out of the light as that can taint the beer in them. Most people use brown bottles.
 
If you keep your beer in clear bottles you need to keep them out of the light as that can taint the beer in them. Most people use brown bottles.
That but also assuming you want more than a dozen bottles even factoring in shipping the Range ones are cheaper than Wilko.
 
It depends how patient you are. If you need them asap I would just buy them from the Range or Brew2Bottle (when they have them in). If you can wait, by far the cheapest way of doing it is keeping your eyes peeled on Facebook Marketplace and waiting for some to come up. Someone was selling 60 original grolsch bottles in nice grolsch crates for £40 in Stockport not so long ago. I was tempted to get them even though I already have a load! They will come up eventually.
 
Are the bottles The Range and Wilko sell designed to withstand pressure? They may be for decorative purposes or for use with non-carbonated liquids only.

The new Grolsch bottles are likely to be non-returnable, so quite thin and unless you know exactly how much C02 there is in your beer and/or your beer has an infection, you could end up with bottle bomb. With bottles deisgned to be used multiple times, look for a scuff ring around the outside of the bottle where they've been in and out of crates and rubbed against each other on the bottling line. That and their heavier than usual weight will tell you how suitable they are for re-use.
 
Are the bottles The Range and Wilko sell designed to withstand pressure? They may be for decorative purposes or for use with non-carbonated liquids only.

The new Grolsch bottles are likely to be non-returnable, so quite thin and unless you know exactly how much C02 there is in your beer and/or your beer has an infection, you could end up with bottle bomb. With bottles deisgned to be used multiple times, look for a scuff ring around the outside of the bottle where they've been in and out of crates and rubbed against each other on the bottling line. That and their heavier than usual weight will tell you how suitable they are for re-use.
They are purposed for homebrew. As I said I've been using them for years without problem, including for some very well carbonated beers.
 
Don’t do what I did and buy a box of 20 bottles in Sainsbury’s and then on opening they were crown bottles! RTFL!! Tastes ok but not the same as when I drank it 20years ago.
 
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