Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle stone/clay beer bottles?

By: bill

bill — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:11:04 +0000

These are cool. where can i get one. I like stoneware. I have a small collection of mini whiskey jugs. These would be fun to collect too.

By: kat

kat — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:10:25 +0000

When my friend buys desserts that are sold in clay pots – she flogs them on eBay as “mood pots” – for £1, but still not throing it away. The buyer pays the P&P. You can try the same – take a good picture of the bottle, make up a name & flog it!

By: nameless

nameless — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:18:34 +0000

break off the bottom and use it as a spottle for spotting

By: louisa's mum

louisa's mum — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:12:39 +0000

fill them with pebbles and make them into door stops

By: samarah

samarah — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:48:14 +0000

you coould always carfull break the tops off and place them in a garden as decorations , or once broken off you could plant things in them as beginner planters !

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:51:26 +0000

If I remember correctly, if you can dehydrate the corks, they will shrink. you can put them in then and moisten them until they expand to fill the hole.

By: louisa

louisa — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:16:50 +0000

They’d make good vases for just a few stems – heavy bases and low centres of gravity so wonderfully stable in houses full of rampaging kids/cats. :)

Aside from that, if you could find some stoppers/corks that are approximately the right size, you could use them in situations where the liquid doesn’t need to be kept as air-tight as homebrew – perhaps keep seeds in them or homemade liquid soap?

-louisa

By: Delusion

Delusion — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:01:55 +0000

I use wine bottles for candle holders. Melt the bottle of thin taper candles and “glue” them into the bottle neck. As you light them and the melt, the dribbling wax will keep them glued in.

nice and quick candle holders :)

By: Dasiy-May

Dasiy-May — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:28 +0000

Could you push the corks in the bottles yourself? As i think home brew is a very good idea. But if you have no other way or re-using these wonderful bottles, then you could always just pop 2 sainsburys and recycle them that way as this will help the enviroment!!