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Title: (California) Bulk glass bottle suppliers?
Post by: pfooti on May 13, 2011, 05:26:34 PM

Hey forums,

I have a need for 22 oz bottles in rather large supply (not for homebrew beer, but other uses). I'm wondering if anybody has had any experience finding wholesale suppliers who would provide a couple hundred or so bottles. My LHBS (which is very nice) has a pretty good price of $1.00 per, but if I could find a way to drop the per-bottle price to $0.50 or so, my life would suddenly be a lot easier. I've found some wholesalers online, but they tend to be on the east coast and shipping wipes out pretty much all the gains made there.

Title: Re: (California) Bulk glass bottle suppliers?
Post by: tschmidlin on May 13, 2011, 05:53:00 PM

Are you near any breweries that bottle in 22s?  If you ask really nicely they might order some for you.

Title: Re: (California) Bulk glass bottle suppliers?
Post by: pfooti on May 14, 2011, 05:40:42 PM

Hmm, that's a really good idea. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Title: Re: (California) Bulk glass bottle suppliers?
Post by: Thirsty_Monk on June 04, 2011, 10:56:30 PM

Try California Glass:
http://www.calglass.com

I have never worked with them.
They might have a minimums of 1 pallet.

Good Luck.

Title: Re: (California) Bulk glass bottle suppliers?
Post by: hubie on June 06, 2011, 07:41:01 AM

Being on the east coast myself, do you recall which wholesalers you found out here?  I might want to keep that info stored in the back of my head for future reference.