Best (cheapest) place for swappas?

[Winter]

Ah Yes, the holy swappa crate!

Or 'Puinamu' which translates to 'wooden crate with beer'.

Where is the cheapest place to go for a crate of beer these days?

I'm after speights. Only found the one place behind tactics in highland park that does them - anywhere else?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/crate.JPG

[kiwifruit]

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[Coldrider]

swap a crate, an ancient drinking ritual, still practised where?
I'd have to admit the last time I saw a pint bottle of speight's was in balclutha in 1988, the original speights brew.

[Winter]

swap a crate, an ancient drinking ritual, still practised where?
I'd have to admit the last time I saw a pint bottle of speight's was in balclutha in 1988, the original speights brew.

From some guys blog :

That’s right, let’s bring back the swappa-crate. Now, I know what you’re going to say. The swappa-crate didn’t go anywhere. They’re available at every bottlestore in the country. Well to that I would say “when was the last time you bought one, hmm?” (If you are a student, well, sorry you don’t count. Everyone expects you to live on crates. In fact half your flat furniture is probably built from them - you’re not who I’m talking about, okay?)

Once upon a time in this country you couldn’t go to a BBQ without there being an abundance of crates. Somehow in the last 30 years or so we bought into the idea that single-use bottles or “stubbies” were cooler.

Still practised wherever students need either furniture or beer, or where home brewers need quart bottles for their brew, or people like recycling, or where 330ml just isn't enough!

[martybabe]

What a thread, winter coldrider and a penguin, I only tuned in to find out what a swappa crate was. It's farking cold in here.:cold::cold::cold: I'm off to find a thread started by summer breeze. Good luck. mmmm speights:first:

[Slingshot]

When I'm buying beer I often buy swappers, at the moment I've got 7 crates full of home-brew waiting to mature.

If anyone around Wellington wants to get rid of their empty swapper crates, I'll take em.

[Gubb]

I had a mate that had a couch made out of Swappa Crates and empty Pizza Boxes.

[tnarg]

Swappa crates and woodies (8%only ) are all they sell out west...luckily for me.

[homer]

swappas are primo , just about all i get
at the mo i get a swap of export for $28.99
and its usually 31.99

[Winter]

Where people, where?

Most of the liqour stores i go into / ring up dont do them anymore! Or if they do, its only DB or something, and $38 for a first crate!

[homer]

From some guys blog :


Still practised wherever students need either furniture or beer, or where home brewers need quart bottles for their brew, or people like recycling, or where 330ml just isn't enough!

its a rip off smaller bottles and 2 dont make a long neck .
in aussie 2 stubbies fill a long neck

[homer]

Where people, where?

Most of the liqour stores i go into / ring up dont do them anymore! Or if they do, its only DB or something, and $38 for a first crate!

Yep dear for the first crate as you buy the crate and the bottles but you save heaps later on

[Winter]

Yeah.. But I'm not gonna return the crate, so im trying to find somewhere with the cheapest first crate price!

[Donor]

Most bottlers in Papakura do swappers, and I'm sure a few do Speights!

That's it, I am making it my mission to go up the road this weekend, and see if I can make my heavily dust laden crate mystically fill itself with full bottles of Speights...

Oh, and for the beer afficianadoes?

I have another crate of 12 long neck beer bottles.

Perfect for that retro beer look the home brew crowd are into (probably).

[Winter]

Most bottlers in Papakura do swappers, and I'm sure a few do Speights!

That's it, I am making it my mission to go up the road this weekend, and see if I can make my heavily dust laden crate mystically fill itself with full bottles of Speights...

Oh, and for the beer afficianadoes?

I have another crate of 12 long neck beer bottles.

Perfect for that retro beer look the home brew crowd are into (probably).

Donor I want it!

HOw much for the empties?

[Donor]

Beats me - I pulled them out from under my late grandmothers house about 18 years ago... and god knows how long they had been there before then...

I've always meant to do something with them...

I asked the wife (who works in recycling, specifically glass) how much they were worth, she says somewhere in the region of a quarter of a cent... mind you, that's recycling value!

[Usarka]

a pissed parrot told me that they don't produce any more of the quart bottles, they rely on the swap backs to get the bottles back for cleaning and refilling.

Every time a bottle gets smashed or thrown away there is one less in circulation.

[Coldrider]

I must admit I buy my beer from the supermarket, so cans, stubbies and imported beers in glass are the go.

[Winter]

Beats me - I pulled them out from under my late grandmothers house about 18 years ago... and god knows how long they had been there before then...

I've always meant to do something with them...

I asked the wife (who works in recycling, specifically glass) how much they were worth, she says somewhere in the region of a quarter of a cent... mind you, that's recycling value!

so $15 for the 12 bottles should be a bargin for you?

[Donor]

so $15 for the 12 bottles should be a bargin for you?

Let me consult my notes...

[Slingshot]

a pissed parrot told me that they don't produce any more of the quart bottles, they rely on the swap backs to get the bottles back for cleaning and refilling.

Every time a bottle gets smashed or thrown away there is one less in circulation.

I'm pretty sure the quart bottles are still made.

Anyway, here's a thread (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=12694&highlight=bottle%3B+crate) with some pictures of beer bottles being made:

[lb99]

almost to the celing in our kitchen, a continuously recirculating supply of home brew. I had a crack at lining up 12 empties on the bench today, but the missus keeps washing em, and I am not hard enough to out pace her :p :beer:
I have also found some crown cap stubbies that can handle home brew too.

lately I have scored a crate of empties a week from different jobs I've been to.
I have bottles from ther last 6 decades still in use, nothing like drinking beer from an antique bottle. :)

[Slingshot]

almost to the celing in our kitchen, a continuously recirculating supply of home brew.

You gonna share your favorite recipes?

[lb99]

You gonna share your favorite recipes?

uh, I just go for the supermarket kits, ale, lager, or sometimes bitter for me. follow the instructions to the letter, and it turns out fine. clenliness is cruiciel, I bleach eveything, and have made a bottlewasher adaptor for the dishwasher. You can raise the % by adding more sugar but it comes with a headache ;) I have tried coopers and lion kits, with good results, and am about to try a brewtec ale, I currently have a coopers lager brewing, which i like very much:apint: