Wanted: Beer Bottles

[Greg.L]

I need to bottle 500L of cider but I can't find suppliers for new bottles, except cospack and plasdene which are both pretty expensive around 65c/bottle.(650ml)
Just wondered if anyone knows a cheaper supplier of bottles.

Greg

 

[michael_aussie]

I need to bottle 500L of cider but I can't find suppliers for new bottles, except cospack and plasdene which are both pretty expensive around 65c/bottle.(650ml)
Just wondered if anyone knows a cheaper supplier of bottles.

Greg

there was an open thread a few months ago that listed a few suppliers ....
have you tried the search function???

 

[Greg.L]

there was an open thread a few months ago that listed a few suppliers ....
have you tried the search function???

Hmmm. Bottles get mentioned fairly often on AHB. Any ideas what I should search for?

 

[barls]

o-i are suppliers,

 

[Greg.L]

o-i are suppliers,

Who are o-i?

 

[barls]

http://www.o-i.com/asia.aspx?id=1906

 

[colonel]

I need to bottle 500L of cider but I can't find suppliers for new bottles, except cospack and plasdene which are both pretty expensive around 65c/bottle.(650ml)
Just wondered if anyone knows a cheaper supplier of bottles.

Greg

Recycle, Man!

Go to your local tip/transfer station, and you'll find thousands.

 

[Greg.L]

O-I are distributed by plasdene, so I can't see tham being any cheaper.

 

[Greg.L]

OK, the tip about O-I was a good one, plasdene sell a 750ml softdrink/cider bottle $462 for a pallet of 1020 screwtop glass bottles. I have put crownseals on screwtops before so that should be OK. 46c each is way cheaper than other options but I hadn't thought of looking at softdrink bottles.

plasdene cider bottle

 

[brocky_555]

That bottle that is shown in the link does not look like it will take a beer bottle cap that you would normally use you will have to buy the closures recommended by the supplier.

 

[Greg.L]

That bottle that is shown in the link does not look like it will take a beer bottle cap that you would normally use you will have to buy the closures recommended by the supplier.

They sell a plastic screw-on cap but I don't like the idea of a plastic cap for long term storage maybe 2+years, might let in too much oxygen. I think it will take a crown cap but they are sending me a sample so I can test it.

 

[Tim]

The bottle looks like a Stones Ginger Beer bottle. Just buy one from Coles and see if you can get a cap on it.