Bottles and bottles and bottles. Oh my!

A friend of mine figured out that if I'm going to complete this goal of 52 brews in a year I'm going to need about 2,700 12 oz bottles.

Houston. We have a problem. I don't have 2,700 bottles.  I don't even have time to sing "Twenty seven hundred bottles of beer on the wall', but I do have lots of friends who drink beer.

Thanks to the generosity of my beer drinking buddies I now have a somewhat steady supply of bottles coming in. This may be due to the fact that I negotiated homebrew for bottles.  More on that in a later post. I still had to clean the bottles and strip the labels before I can use them.

Okay, a word to the breweries of the world.  What's is up with your label glue?

Some labels come off easy (thank you Sam Adams), other labels you gotta scrap to get off (Dos Equis), and yet some labels you can get off, but the glue will remain to the end of time (Heineken).

Brewery dudes. Get a grip. We will drink your beer.  But please have some mercy on the home brewers of the world. Make a label that is easy to get off. There's gotta be a happy balance between marketing and adhesiveness.