I know a lot of people here make their own labels and some get quite elaborate. I also know that some just use a pieces of tape on a jar and just about every conceivable thing in between. As we get more and more stock built up, or perhaps more and more skill some of us begin to start paying attention to the little things like the containers themselves. I myself have quite a few antique and vintage decanters that sadly I don't use except for special occasions but I still have a need for something to store my most special products in and being that it is a special product I prefer to have a special bottle. I decided to start this thread to show ya'll some of those bottles
In case you don't already know, I have access to a bottle dumpster used by a few different bars and I make regular raids on it when I'm in need of something. Lately I have found myself in need of enough beer and wine bottles to handle something like 50 or 60 gallons of various fermented things like cider and wine so I have been hitting the dumpster hard for the past few months.
As I salvage beer bottles I find I have a lot of trouble passing up anything with a cork but my absolute favorite bottles are a brand called "Monkey Shoulder"
I saw this bottle and fell in love with it, mostly because of this
On the shoulder of the bottle are 3 brass monkeys. As soon as I saw one I knew I needed more and instantly knew I had to put the S3 monkeys on it. Sadly these are very rare finds in my bottle dumpster but I have managed to find a few of them two of which I sent to MCH with my 2018 & 2019 apple brandy. The labels I put on them look like this
I have to say I like these bottles so much that I will and have crawled across broken glass to get one
Of course because I'm both a cheap bastard and a natural scrounger those aren't the only bottles I use. I can't resist Woodford Reserve bottle even though it's close to impossible to remove the painted on wording. They have nice corks, store well and the bottles I find are always one liter so I always grab them when I find them.
I really have a thing for unique shaped bottles. One of the only bottles I have ever bought were a couple cases of these
Which have a really nice oval shape
But use a larger than standard cork which until recently I've only been able to find from Widgetco and they are quite expensive. However recently I found a Woodinville Whiskey company cork fits them perfectly. WW uses a rectangular bottle that I would really like if it didn't have embossed lettering, but it does so when I find one of those I just take the corks to fit my oval bottles.
but I'd really like enough of one single style of bottle to put each individual kind of liquor in so every bottle of brandy, vodka, rum or whatever matches the rest but in reality unless I use nothing but the cuervo bottles that probably isn't going to happen 
