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    Best (cheapest) place for swappas?

    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?
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldrider View Post
    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!
    "And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."

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    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. I'm off to find a thread started by summer breeze. Good luck. mmmm speights
    Oh bugger

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    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.
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    I had a mate that had a couch made out of Swappa Crates and empty Pizza Boxes.
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    Swappa crates and woodies (8%only ) are all they sell out west...luckily for me.

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    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

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    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!
    "And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter View Post
    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

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    Yeah.. But I'm not gonna return the crate, so im trying to find somewhere with the cheapest first crate price!
    "And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."

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    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).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Donor View Post
    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?
    "And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."

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