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I've just started capping as opposed to using PET bottles...had to drink a lot of vb tallies...urrgh. Had enough bottles to cap a batch of stout, with about 60 left over for the next two batches. Missus thinks the bottles look untidy. I was thinking that both the capped bottles and empties would look pretty spiffy stacked in some milk crates....anyone know where you can get some...or should i just follow the milk truck when its dark and nick theirs?

MagooMan wrote:I've just started capping as opposed to using PET bottles...had to drink a lot of vb tallies...urrgh. Had enough bottles to cap a batch of stout, with about 60 left over for the next two batches. Missus thinks the bottles look untidy. I was thinking that both the capped bottles and empties would look pretty spiffy stacked in some milk crates....anyone know where you can get some...or should i just follow the milk truck when its dark and nick theirs?

Big W sell crates that fit 16 750ml bottles, though the new coopers bottles would be too tall if you want to stack them

I work in an office, and have been collecting the boxes copy paper comes in. They hold 11 longnecks each and because they are boxes, do not allow light into the beers, as long as I keep the lid also.

Would also be a lot tidier for your missus.

I keep a pretty good brew log, and just write with a big permanent texta the brew number on the outside of each box, so I know what's in there.

And they're all free.

scblack is an ideas man!

if you stacking longnecks you could get some cheap ass wine racks from the reject shop or similar. You can make your bottles a display

What looks like a milk crate works very well 15 bottles to a crate

I use HP 19" LCD cardboard boxes as we throw lots out from work all the time.
They perfetly fit 35 VB longnecks & the height is perfect.
Only problem is that they don't like water.

Milk crates would be great to have as a bottle drainer.
Anyone got any mates @ Safeway or other supermarkets??

I bought a few of those big plastic storage containers from the discount store....the ones with snap-on lids and wheels on the bottom. They are designed to stack on top of each other too...a real space saver.

I got a couple of double door pantry kits from my local major hardware store (along with an extra shelf for each pantry). Each shelf holds the bottles nicely from one brew and having ten shelves seems to work out quite nicely in that just as we finish one batch of bottles there's another lot ready to come out of the fermentor to take their place.

I was using those crates with the snap on lids and wheels on the bottom but found they take up a lot of room and ares also rather demanding on the back if I need to move them at all.

try behind shops.

Esp. shops that sell milk.

I built a bar with two shelves behind it that contains enought for five sets of brews and even wired a stereo behind the, bottler, can crusher and opener.

she never goes behind it so its great. Oh and i store my bottles under it as well.

well worth the scrap wood, railway sleepers for the top and some floorboards for the front. Cost just over $100 to build.

Phantom