Where do you store your bottles? Empty and full

[Stanleythecat]

I now have about 40 bottles full and roughly have another 100 empty bottles waiting to be filled.

We have limited space at home so I have a big (organised) pile in the garden! I was wondering what ingeneous methods you used to store your wine and what you do with your empties!

Desperatley need some inspiration please!

Many thanks

Leo

 

[Polo_Phil]

Shed...
Garage...
Loft...
Garden waste wheelie bin... (I compost)

 

[graysalchemy]

Crates is the best and most organised.

 

[Stanleythecat]

Shed...
Garage...
Loft...
Garden waste wheelie bin... (I compost)

Well I have a wheely bin! But we have a loft conversion and live in a terraced house!... have been thinking of 're-organising' the garden shed though!

Have you made any racks or anything like that for you full ones?

Leo

 

[Stanleythecat]

Crates is the best and most organised.

Thanks

Is there somewhere that I can get hold of some crates or do you knock them up yourself?

Leo

 

[alanwh]

I get about 30 on a metal, two-tier shoe rack.

 

[Polo_Phil]

Well I have a wheely bin! But we have a loft conversion and live in a terraced house!... have been thinking of 're-organising' the garden shed though!

Have you made any racks or anything like that for you full ones?

Leo

Does your loft conversion not have eaves? That'd be ideal!
I've only got 39 full ones which are currently in the shed in a couple of boxes.

 

[graysalchemy]

I use these crates from B&Q. The ones I have you can get 39 bottles in but they are t0o heavy when full.

 

[Baz Chaz]

Empties ........ all cleaned and rinsed, ready for a dunk in sanitiser and then filling

The full ones, well I'm lucky, 'The Den' which is alongside the garage, is kitted out with kitchen units and all the beer gets crammed in there, another brew or two and I'll be stocked up :

 

[The Goatreich]

Interesting! What do you store your full bottles in?

 

[alphacento]

I store both the empty and full ones in the cellar. The advantages of a cellar is that it keep pretty much the same temperature throughout the year.

 

[Stanleythecat]

'Does your loft conversion not have eaves? That'd be ideal!'

Ideal if the wife didn't have 100's of pairs of shoes and lots of clothes in them! ... I have a shoe box sized bit for my stuff!

 

[Polo_Phil]

Ideal if the wife didn't have 100's of pairs of shoes and lots of clothes in them! ... I have a shoe box sized bit for my stuff!

Ah yes... SWMBO

...that's why I like the shed - she's scared of spiders :party:

 

[Stanleythecat]

I store both the empty and full ones in the cellar. The advantages of a cellar is that it keep pretty much the same temperature throughout the year.

Lucky... haven't found our cellar yet!

Anyone built their own cellar... outside... above ground!? Concrete base breeze blocks + celotex maybe? probably still too much temperature change to work.

 

[Stanleythecat]

Ideal if the wife didn't have 100's of pairs of shoes and lots of clothes in them! ... I have a shoe box sized bit for my stuff!

Ah yes... SWMBO

...that's why I like the shed - she's scared of spiders :party:

Trouble is she want to drink the wine too! Having your cake and eating it or what!

 

[Polo_Phil]

Women and shoes eh!?

and it must be made worse by the fact that you're a cat! :whistle:

 

[Stanleythecat]

Interesting! What do you store your full bottles in?

It would appear that most of the recent batch is now stored somewhere in my bloodstream as there is little left!

We have a cupboard under the stairs but it will only hold one batch of bottles. SWMBO runs her own business making chutney and it is fill of... well you guessed it! CHUTNEY! and onions and the usual hoover and shoes etc... no more room for wine. Although I am thinking of re-organising it will better shelving and a wine rack that follows the incline of the stairs, not completely practical but a better use of space.

 

[Stanleythecat]

Women and shoes eh!?

and it must be made worse by the fact that you're a cat! :whistle:

Don't mention the cat! :nono: I'm pretty sure he's higher up the food chain in our house!

 

[calumscott]

I've got 8 x 20 bottle crates which are all currently full of full bottles which is nice but I need more. They live in an unheated outhouse.

Empties are all in nice plastic stacky box things that you get from "cheapshops" on any highstreet. They hold roughly a 23l brew's worth.

 

[Onionman]

Under the floorboards. It's not strictly a cellar as it's only about three feet deep but it does the job.

Very little temperature change down there - cool in summer and winter both.

I'm a big fan of bulk ageing, so it's handy that the space is about an inch taller than a 23l carboy plus airlock. Ageing in bulk also reduces the effect of any temperature chnages there may be even down there.

It's alos handy that it's a bit hard to get to (move table, move run and open trap) so I tend to forget what's down there, meaning it gets good time to age.

Onion