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I Need Bottles

Greetings to those of you in my local area who are reading my blog...

I need bottles.  If any of you drink beer in brown glass bottles that do NOT have twist-off tops, please save bottles for me.  I'll be happy to come pick them up.  I clean and sanitize these bottles for home brewing use.  Since I have been out of home brewing for a long time, I no longer have the stock of bottles that I used to have.  I need to collect about 200 bottles and I'm trying to avoid buying new ones as much as possible. 

*** UPDATE *** 2/12/09 ***

I no longer need bottles.  I have an excellent source.  Thanks Tom!

Thanks in advance :)

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I was browsing Homebrewtalk.com recently can came across a thread where one of the members had used Armour Etch to etch graduation lines and numbers on his 5-gallon glass carboy.  I immediately wanted to do the same technique on my glass carboy, but after taking a closer look at the carboy, I realized that it's not smooth on the sides.  It has ridges and doesn't lend itself well to doing this.  After thinking about it some more, I decided to try it out on one of my beer glasses.  I purchased a package of stick-on vinyl lettering and put the JMS letters on the glass.  I used masking tape to form a box around those letters and then brushed on some of the Armour Etch paste.  I let it sit for about 8 minutes and then rinsed it off with hot water and then removed the tape and letters.  With a little creativity, I could probably come up with something on a glass that looks really nice...