A Plea from German Brewers: Bring Back Your Empties

Re:A Plea from German Brewers: Bring Back Your Empties by londons_explore on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:46AM (#31711798)

When making homebrew beer, the bottles are the most expensive component.

I think it's simply that all the other ingredients of beer are super cheap...

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Re:A Plea from German Brewers: Bring Back Your Empties by qwery on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:42AM (#31713770)

There is not a huge market for empty bottles (at retail) -- most people want the beer inside!

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Re:A Plea from German Brewers: Bring Back Your Empties by wolrah on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:42AM (#31714432)

To me that was always the best part of homebrewing. The empty bottles were expensive enough that it was usually worthwhile to just find a brewery I liked that used nice thick bottles that can handle a few reuses and empty them myself.

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