I homebrew beer, and I get my bottles by de-labeling stuff I buy. However, I tend to forget what state they're in so I designed my own label holder with slide in labels. Cardboard boxes hold bottles well, but they're not see thru. Now I know! STL: https://www.printables.com/model/562504-hanging-sign-clips
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I love my swing tops tbh. They work just as well as capped bottles, except a lot easier to do. I struggle with my capper, and swing tops are just.. flip down the lock. The swing top bottles I use are grolsch, which is beer imported from Germany, and they stay sealed well enough to cross the ocean 😜. The glass in swing tops tends to be pretty thick specifically for reuse, so bottle bombs don’t really happen, instead you get fountains when you open over-carbonated beverages.
If you have some already and the gaskets are still good, the next time you brew a batch, fill a few and test them at different times (2 weeks, 1 mth, 4 mths, whatever timespan you normally go through) and see if they hold up well for you.
If your friends are good about returning bottles (most of mine are) it’s really nice to have an easier system.
I have about a 30% success rate bottling with flip tops. I normally keg but wanted the flexibility to bottle, but I had a lot of flat beer that I had to pour into a mini keg and force carbonate.