Major score on bottles

[GrandpasFootsteps]

Some of you may remember my angst begging for bottles when I first got started a few years ago. Since then I've been pretty good at having enough bottles.

This past weekend I made a major score off craigslist. 79 boxes of empties - 980 bottles total. All from the same winery and they all have easy to remove (water soak only) labels. They are nice bottles. I paid 20 cents per bottle. I usually don't pay for bottles but this will have me setup for years.

My wife's only question: Where are you going to store all these?

 

[Julie]

Sweet deal!!!

 

[Jaggz]

Awesome find! Congrats!

 

[DirtyDawg10]

Sweet deal!

 

[bakervinyard]

Nice score ! Now how fast can you make wine ? LOL, Bakervinyard

 

[Terry0220]

Nice,,would love to have that deal around here!!

 

[Pumpkinman]

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stefani]

Your response to your wife should be... 'On the new wine rack, after all the bottles are filled."

 

[RegionRat]

Cha Ching!!!!!

RR

 

[vacuumpumpman]

Nice Find !!

 

[tiMcC]

Nice,,would love to have that deal around here!!

terry
i'm in pgh and have bottles
how many do you need
tim

 

[GreginND]

These are used bottles? I can't see ever paying for used bottles, even at 20 cents. They should have paid you to take them away. Just my 2 cents.

 

[DaveL]

I recently scored 60 cases for a good deal as well. Unused still in the box no labels.
My question is other than a wash in the dishwasher, a good hand rinse and a dose of sanitizer is there any other cleaning needed?
For instance on my used bottles I used a bottle brush. This doesn't seem as if it is needed in this case to me.

 

[Runningwolf]

I would stick to your plan and avoid the brush. No need for it unless you see visible dirt.

 

[DaveL]

I would stick to your plan and avoid the brush. No need for it unless you see visible dirt.

Thanks alot. I'm amazed everytime I have a question what a great resource this is. I going to do some bottling tomorrow