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# Very similarly, I was humping up and down stairs all weekend, followed by lots of rinsing and scrubbing in the bath
but my dedicated home brewery is now properly installed :)
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:46, archived)
# I have clicked "I Like This!"
because there's no "I'm Enormously Jealous!" link.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:54, archived)
# If you have a Wilkinsons near you, you can get the first 40 pints going for about £25
after that, another 40 pints will cost you £11 or so

also, become friendly with bar staff - we came home from the pub on Saturday night with a crate full of empty bottles :)
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:22, archived)
# bar staff tip is good
I used to raid bottle banks with a long stick, got some strange looks.
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:25, archived)
# Hahaha
I can imagine. It's quite a common sight on the continent, though, at least where I've lived - unlike us those Europeans still tend to have deposits on their bottles, so you see people going around fishing bottles out of hedges and out of people's bins to reclaim the deposits. (And immediately reinvest it in some gut-churning rotgut that passes for cheap beer.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:56, archived)
# never understood why they don't re-introduce bottle deposits here
I remember deposits on Corona lemonade as a kid and even Irn-Bu glass bottles in the 90's. Every organisation seems to bend over backwards to show how environmentally friendly they are but this idea is repeatedly ignored.
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 11:07, archived)
# They were doing deposits on Barr's until at least the early 2000s
Pity they seem to have stopped doing it. Deposits on cans in particular can be really high on the continent, and there are a hell of a lot fewer cans lying around as a result.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 12:45, archived)
# Nah, I don't even live in Britain
:(
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:54, archived)
# this sounds fantastic
i will have to investigate wilkinsons a bit more.

[edit] i've just checked on-line and that have a kit for 30 bottles of wine in 7 days!
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:49, archived)