Brewers want better bottle
Nelson breweries want a bottle washing plant in the region and a standardised bottle to be produced in New Zealand.
Mr Duncan said Founders produced about 200 bottles a day, and 30 percent of them were returned to the brewery. Each bottle had a 5c refund.
He said hand-washing the bottles was too time-consuming.
Bays Brewery owner Peter McGrath did not back his fellow Nelson brewers. He questioned the quality of reused bottles, saying, "You don't know if there's been paint thinner in them".
Mr McGrath said plastic rigger bottles were the "ultimate recycling vessel". Some of his customers had reused their riggers 100 times.
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Labels: bottles, founders, john duncan, nelson bays, recycle
posted by Unknown at 9:35 pm
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Depends on what the focus of your bottle is.
Is it to appear alongside other beers on a supermarket shelf?
Obviously only an attractively labeled glass bottle will do, but I would have thought recycling would be economically unfeasible for this?
If we're talking take aways from a brewery/brew pub, PET riggers are the only way to go! Steven @ Hallertau - how 'bout it?
I don't know... I quite like Steve's classy bottles. They look great when full. Shame they don't stay that way for long. ;)
"Mr McGrath said plastic rigger bottles were the "ultimate recycling vessel". Some of his customers had reused their riggers 100 times."
Love to see a photo of the "plastic" rigger that had been filled 100 times.
Not sure why you couldn't fill a glass rigger 100 times?
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