Where to buy empty aluminum cans from?

[tonymc]

I have a mate who's got a fancy crimp style canning machine - works like a reverse can opener.
He's offered for me to use it an this will come in really handy for a 40L batch I'm doing for an outdoor event (kegging not an option as each person has to carry their own beer a considerable distance)

While I have the machine I have no idea where to get the cans from - decent ones - doesn't have to be branded - just plain old silver ones will do - I'll then laser print some stickers onto a waterproof sticker film from staples.

Anyone any Ideas - googling only comes up with commercial suppliers who want to sell you 10,000 cans at a minimum and not a paltry homebrewer who only needs 200 empty cans.

 

[wynnum1]

What does he do with the machine small craft breweries pay to have there beer caned so what use is the machine without cans.

 

[tonymc]

What does he do with the machine small craft breweries pay to have there beer caned so what use is the machine without cans.

He's not a brewer, he's a tinkerer/hoarder/collector

 

[laxation]

Do you have any local breweries you could ask to buy some from? Sometimes they're helpful with homebrewers

 

[Coodgee]

I've got a mate who works at coke. It would be cool if you could get a couple of hundred stamped coke cans... you could smuggle them into all sorts of places!

 

[laxation]

If you dont mind drinking out of walnut milk cans....

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/searc...n&atm=&viewtype=G&f0=y&moqf=MOQF&moqt=MOQT200

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I've got a mate who works at coke. It would be cool if you could get a couple of hundred stamped coke cans... you could smuggle them into all sorts of places!

I like that idea, certainly beats cutting the top off an empty coke can and putting your can of illicit alcohol inside.

 

[wynnum1]

He's not a brewer, he's a tinkerer/hoarder/collector

u brew it have canning at there brew on premises sites they may sell the cans but are the cans different for different machines.

 

[Mattdavey13]

Was looking for a machine myself, but came across this guy who bought a half pallet and is trying to sell 40 cents per can and lid plus delivery.

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/705-5...0001&campid=5338413729&icep_item=332761684264

 

[sp0rk]

Was looking for a machine myself, but came across this guy who bought a half pallet and is trying to sell 40 cents per can and lid plus delivery.

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/705-5...0001&campid=5338413729&icep_item=332761684264

I wonder if that's one of the test machines that KL had...
*edit* Yup, exactly the same as their auto one, only a different colour (maybe he painted it...)

 

[tanked84]

That exact machine you can get from alibaba for US$198 1 unit
That’s what the Australian retailers do these days, get them from China.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

That exact machine you can get from alibaba for US$198 1 unit
That’s what the Australian retailers do these days, get them from China.

I have seen them, there is a good mark up on them on eBay, but the buying of one delivery was the killer $400+ Doesn't rule out a bulk buy but.
I was offered a 60 litre single vessel brewery, from a manufacturer in China, had the same parameters as the Guten but he had put the flexible mixer tap hose on the return pipe, offered me one for $500 + $90 delivery. so I am blowed how they work out delivery costs.