Something I hadn't thought of...oops!

[Mike in Ohio]

I just realized that I seriously don't have enough wine bottles and corks if the SHTF.

I have 8 cases but I really think I should have about 730 (2 bottles per day for a year) to allow for breakage over time, etc. This also allows for the time it takes for various beverages to age in the bottle.

Time to start begging from friends at restaurants for their empties.

So how many bottles do you have? How did you calculate how many you need?

What got me started thinking about this is that I'm doing hard cider for the first time this year and I'll be short bottles wiht the other stuff we have going (Mead).

Mike

[Stephen in SOKY]

Odd the timing on this post. I'm going to an auction Saturday in part because they have 4 pallets of new wine bottles. Course those SS vessels & porcelain lined open fermenter etc. etc. are worth a look as well.

[Madame]

Since I don't drink wine, I don't have to worry overmuch. LOL.

[WisJim]

Many hundreds of bottles, stacked in cases in the shed and barn. I really prefer Grolosch-style beer bottles, with the rubber gasket that is reusable, but it is hard to accumulated enough of them, at low cost.