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southlake333

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I recently met up with a guy in my area that was giving away his beer bottle collection of 600+ bottles. While I initially just expected a bunch of great home brew bottles, I've found some very interesting items in his collection. I had no idea beer came in so many forms!

So anyway, 2/3 of these bottles will most likely be great for my skeeter pee (or other creations), some will just be decor and its the rest that I have questions on. Some of them have unusually shaped openings and some just look like wine bottles. My question is, how do I cap/cork/seal these? Below are 3 examples next to a standard beer bottle for reference.

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As you can see, the green one appears to have a larger opening than the one next to it while both look like wine bottles. The Chimay has a very fat lip on top. There are plenty of other variations but this should give you an idea of what I'm looking at.

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it!
 
All except the Chimay use bottle caps the Chimay uses a champagne style cork with cage
 
I think the collection was intended to some day be resold if bottles are rear. Did you check on that, before cleaning lables off?
 
I love Dogfishhead beers and frequently buy those larger bottles like the one you have pictured second from the left. I've started saving them, as I'd like to make a carbonated SP at some point, and I think they'd be perfect.
 
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