Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 03, 2005, 12:04:58 pm
Just curious what you guys are putting in your machines. Are you going the nostalgic route with retro bottles and flavors? If so, where do you get them and how much.
Or, are you just stocking with beer, coke, water, something else? Plastic, glass, or cans? Free-vend or pay?
(Maybe we should do a poll on this.....)
Or, are you just stocking with beer, coke, water, something else? Plastic, glass, or cans? Free-vend or pay?
(Maybe we should do a poll on this.....)
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 03, 2005, 12:30:57 pm
Sorry for rehashing old ground. I just found the thread from Jul/Aug on bottled drinks.
Another question arises from reading that thread, though. How many of you rebottle their own sodas? In one post Adam101 mentioned that he uses a "breakmate machine". How does this work? Is it worthwhile if I had, say... 80 bottles or so?
Another question arises from reading that thread, though. How many of you rebottle their own sodas? In one post Adam101 mentioned that he uses a "breakmate machine". How does this work? Is it worthwhile if I had, say... 80 bottles or so?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: dr galaga on February 03, 2005, 08:51:21 pm
I have store bought bottles in mine. The only thing that is plastic is the water - I only use Deja-Blue since the bottles are stiff. Let's see here what's in the Vendo...
MGD
Labatt Blue
Berry Weis
Water
Coke
Mt. Dew
Grape Crush
MGD
Labatt Blue
Berry Weis
Water
Coke
Mt. Dew
Grape Crush
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Kevin C on February 03, 2005, 09:28:40 pm
Hello
Ice House, Bud, Molsen Golden, Killens Red, Cream Soda, Root Beer & top row in Machine two bottle water plastic.
During the party when I had three machines running I also had Bud Light, Coors Light, Corona.
Kevin
Ice House, Bud, Molsen Golden, Killens Red, Cream Soda, Root Beer & top row in Machine two bottle water plastic.
During the party when I had three machines running I also had Bud Light, Coors Light, Corona.
Kevin
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 04, 2005, 01:03:32 am
Paul It depends on how much you can get Coke in bottles where your at and then figure the cost for those as opposed to Buying something to refill bottles with Like a Breakmate or Wunderbar etc. I can tell you this If I were to Buy the little breakmate boxes filled with syurp, as opposed to refilling them with Syrup from a 5 gal bag in box the price is MORE per OZ then a 2 Liter However as soon as you Get the Bulk syrup and to another extent Bulk CO2 then the price shoots down to I believe 2 cents per 10 oz ( Ie one bottle). From there you judt need to run the numbers( math time) and add up Costs Upfront and then Add up what 80 bottles would cost to buy and divide and see how long it will take for you to break even. Hopefully that helps some more Adam
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 04, 2005, 01:40:31 am
How do you refill with the Breakmate?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Pat Pixley on February 04, 2005, 07:59:38 am
In the old Cavalier 64 I have MGD lite, Bud lite, Michelob ultra,
Smirnoff ice, Steward soda and bottle water .
Pat
Smirnoff ice, Steward soda and bottle water .
Pat
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Bob K on February 04, 2005, 08:08:32 am
Currently running the Cavalier CS80:
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Harpoon IPA
IBC Orange Cream Soda
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
and a few bottles of white wine laying lengthwise on the racks staying chilled.
Bob
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Harpoon IPA
IBC Orange Cream Soda
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
and a few bottles of white wine laying lengthwise on the racks staying chilled.
Bob
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 04, 2005, 08:27:04 am
| Quote (dr galaga @ Feb. 03 2005,7:51) |
| The only thing that is plastic is the water - I only use Deja-Blue since the bottles are stiff. |
Does the stiffness of the plastic bottles really matter?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 04, 2005, 08:28:41 am
Here are mine (though I wish I had a few more selections for beer):
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on February 04, 2005, 09:43:41 am
My Cavalier 64 has Coke (8 oz bottles) 2 rows , Diet Dew (16.9 oz plastic), Orange Crush 12 oz bottles, IBC, Grape Crush 12 oz bottles , Faygo 8 oz glass Strawberry (found at odd lots), and Florida's Natural Orange juice in cans (sam's club).
A few times I will throw in an oddball like 9 oz bottled Chocolate Soldier (Dollar general 6 pack is $2)- very good better than YaHoo. I am too cheap to buy bottled H2O.:D
A few times I will throw in an oddball like 9 oz bottled Chocolate Soldier (Dollar general 6 pack is $2)- very good better than YaHoo. I am too cheap to buy bottled H2O.:D
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 04, 2005, 09:52:22 am
Since we have another baby on the way, a friend joked that we could put the bottles of milk/formula in my Vendo, so that when we need to feed the baby, I'd just drop in a dime and down would drop a chilled bottle for the little one!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on February 04, 2005, 12:35:04 pm
Chocolate Soldier at Dollar General, huh? Hmmmm, I will have to check there. I think there is a Dollar General not too far away.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on February 04, 2005, 05:04:45 pm
Solder is my quick breakfast drink
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: dr galaga on February 04, 2005, 10:18:45 pm
| Quote (Markito @ Feb. 04 2005,8:27) |
| Does the stiffness of the plastic bottles really matter? |
I tried Ice Mountain at first. The flimsy bottle basically crushed it's way out and and never released the vending solenoid.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: joesquid on February 05, 2005, 04:56:38 pm
Right now I have one functioning can machine (Cavalier C6-390-228). I stock it with coke, diet caffeine free dr. pepper (wife), sunkist, A&W rootbeer, sprite, and.....(this is how much I love my wife).......mountain dew. I have the machine set for .25 and let all the neighborhood kids buy sodas from the machine. So far, after 2 years of doing this, I've only had two kids attempt to "cheat" me by putting slugs in the machine. They're already half the price of any other machine in town, but still they gotta try cheating the system...amazing. Coin rejector works beautifully I might add.
When the word started getting around about "Mr. Johnson's coke machine" I put the word out to all the neighborhood kids that I only had two rules concerning the coke machine:
1. If the garage door is up, feel free to go right in and get a drink.
2. If anything else in my garage is touched, the door comes down and stays down permanently.
So far I've been fortunate, nothing messed with in the garage. Of course they're dying to see me finish the other machines (they loved my restored Vendo 144E; one enterprising 10 year old was attempting to save enough to buy it....if only more kids would show that kind of drive) but, unfortuntely, duty calls me to Maine, so will be moving from sunny Pensacola to Maine next month. Guess I won't have to worry about the compressor running too much up there!!
When the word started getting around about "Mr. Johnson's coke machine" I put the word out to all the neighborhood kids that I only had two rules concerning the coke machine:
1. If the garage door is up, feel free to go right in and get a drink.
2. If anything else in my garage is touched, the door comes down and stays down permanently.
So far I've been fortunate, nothing messed with in the garage. Of course they're dying to see me finish the other machines (they loved my restored Vendo 144E; one enterprising 10 year old was attempting to save enough to buy it....if only more kids would show that kind of drive) but, unfortuntely, duty calls me to Maine, so will be moving from sunny Pensacola to Maine next month. Guess I won't have to worry about the compressor running too much up there!!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 05, 2005, 05:13:44 pm
joesquid,
That's really neat. We should all have more neighbors like that.
That's really neat. We should all have more neighbors like that.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on February 05, 2005, 05:53:24 pm
Mountain Dew is THE drink of teenagers everywhere (AT LEAST IN SOUTHERN OHIO). I could probably put code red, live wire, regular dew, diet , and pitch black in my machine and it would sell out!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: glassbottlesrule on February 05, 2005, 08:41:30 pm
Had a Vendo 154 in my garage last summer. I had kids knocking on the door with quarters in hand to buy pops. They couldn't believe that coke came in glass bottles. Usually I keep coke, diet coke, sprite,dr pepper, boylan's creamy red birch beer, IBC root beer, Orange crush, Grape crush, Mt. Dew and Cheerwine in Glass. In plastic Pepsi 16.9's and Dasani water, That's why I like the big slant shelfs. I just can't get enough variety with a vendo 63. BTW I went to Dollar General this evening and loaded up and Chocolate SoliderI havent had it in probably 20 years:)
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 06, 2005, 03:30:11 pm
To refill I dispense the soda poip into a large measuring pitcher and then use a funnel to get it into the bottles. Its not that difficult once you get the hang of it and if you have others that can help all the better. Especially if you have kids you can use them as cheap labor. then you get a bottle capper and blank bottle caps and your all set. Of course you need to clean the bottles beforehand 
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on February 06, 2005, 04:45:12 pm
Someone earlier mentioned Odd Lots. I tried Big Lots (don't know if it is the same chain) yesterday and they had zilch. Dollar General sounds promising. I never go, but it isn't far, so I might run down and check for Chocolate Soldier. Someone said it beats YooHoo.Other than IBC, I can't find much in glass. Boylan and Jones soda I can get at World Market, but they run about 3.99 for 4. WalMart had Crush, but not in the last year or so. 
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: dr galaga on February 06, 2005, 06:49:07 pm
| Quote (halehouse @ Feb. 06 2005,4:45) |
| WalMart had Crush, but not in the last year or so. |
Is it a Super WallyWorld? If so, check the other food isles, like the bargain and seasonal. My local store does not keep the Crush with the other soft drinks!?!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 06, 2005, 07:03:21 pm
Adam101,
Do you know of any good websites relating to bottling your own sodas?
All,
I picked up some Orange Crush and Stewart's Root Beer in 12 oz twist-tops and some 8 oz Cokes that need a bottle opener. All at Walmart. They had other Crush flavors and IBC, too. I might go back and stock up on some to try. I didn't see any diets. Here are the prices I paid.
Crush 6pk - $2.50
Coke 6pk - $3.98
Stewarts 4pk - $2.50
I've got a Dollar General about 3 blocks from home. I'll have to check for this Chocolate Soldier y'all are talking about. I've heard of them before but never had one.
Do you know of any good websites relating to bottling your own sodas?
All,
I picked up some Orange Crush and Stewart's Root Beer in 12 oz twist-tops and some 8 oz Cokes that need a bottle opener. All at Walmart. They had other Crush flavors and IBC, too. I might go back and stock up on some to try. I didn't see any diets. Here are the prices I paid.
Crush 6pk - $2.50
Coke 6pk - $3.98
Stewarts 4pk - $2.50
I've got a Dollar General about 3 blocks from home. I'll have to check for this Chocolate Soldier y'all are talking about. I've heard of them before but never had one.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on February 06, 2005, 11:24:16 pm
Solder rocks. Like a Choc-ola or a Yoohoo.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Kevin C on February 09, 2005, 02:50:49 pm
Hello
Public's has 8oz coke classic bottle 6 packs for about $5. I think I would just buy beer at that price.
I have been checking out the small beer bottles & have found Bud, Bud lite & Corona in the small 8 oz bottles.
Kevin
Public's has 8oz coke classic bottle 6 packs for about $5. I think I would just buy beer at that price.
I have been checking out the small beer bottles & have found Bud, Bud lite & Corona in the small 8 oz bottles.
Kevin
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on February 09, 2005, 03:02:20 pm
I checked Dollar General, score the Chocolate Soldier for only $2.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 09, 2005, 11:56:31 pm
Yep, I bought some today (same price) and just finished my first bottle. Pretty good!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 11, 2005, 12:12:18 am
Paul No not really you could try googling it But doubt their is Much, their is a Lot on Botteling beer tho and its basically the same Idea. Just use a Store bought Coke to know how far to fill the bottles.
OH yea I was at Sams Club today and the Coke/diet is 8 oz 24 pack for 11.00 IN Embossed glass( Thats new, usually its with painted on lettering)........Paul if you have any other questions just reply back.
OH yea I was at Sams Club today and the Coke/diet is 8 oz 24 pack for 11.00 IN Embossed glass( Thats new, usually its with painted on lettering)........Paul if you have any other questions just reply back.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 14, 2005, 02:38:44 pm
| Quote (Markito @ Feb. 04 2005,8:52) |
| Since we have another baby on the way, a friend joked that we could put the bottles of milk/formula in my Vendo, so that when we need to feed the baby, I'd just drop in a dime and down would drop a chilled bottle for the little one! |
I can't believe no one got a chuckle or responded to that.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 14, 2005, 02:47:03 pm
| Quote (Adam101 @ Feb. 06 2005,2:30) |
| To refill I dispense the soda pop into a large measuring pitcher and then use a funnel to get it into the bottles. Its not that difficult once you get the hang of it and if you have others that can help all the better. Especially if you have kids you can use them as cheap labor. then you get a bottle capper and blank bottle caps and your all set. Of course you need to clean the bottles beforehand |
Adam101,
Hey check this out. You could get 100 unused Diet Coke bottlecaps for your home-bottling process:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....91&rd=1
Ends on Feb 20th.
Actually, now that I checked to see what else he's seling, I see he has TONS of unused bottlecaps! But then you may even know about him already.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjustsodapopscottQQhtZ-1
Like this auction of literally 8,600 assorted unused bottlecaps!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....92&rd=1
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 14, 2005, 07:28:30 pm
Hey Mark nope didnt know about this person, Honestly I have been getting them from http://www.leeners.com/bottlebeer.html 200+ caps for 2.95.............They are plain which isnt as snazzy, but their are some reasons why I get these....1: they work 2: they are cheap 3: they are cheap 4: they are cheap 5: they are still cheap..................Something about bottle caps that to me dosent deserve anything special Unless Coke is Bottling the Pop then I DEMAND graphics LOL........ Good link though.
Unless Coke is Bottling the Pop then I DEMAND graphics LOL........ Good link though. Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 15, 2005, 01:31:21 am
Adam,
What kind of capper do you use? Hand or machine?
Why couldn't you just get some 3-liter Cokes and refill the bottles from them? Or does that cause the drinks to lose some of their fizz? Is using the Breakmate that much cheaper?
What kind of capper do you use? Hand or machine?
Why couldn't you just get some 3-liter Cokes and refill the bottles from them? Or does that cause the drinks to lose some of their fizz? Is using the Breakmate that much cheaper?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 15, 2005, 04:44:20 pm
Paul, I went back and found My orig. calculations for the breakmate as opposed to a Can...... they are, after you have the syrup and supplies and 20 LB external breakmate tank (holds much more then the dinky little one) It comes out to 25cents for a can (AVG. including deposit) and . 0135 I.E. 1.3 Cents each for a Breakmate made pop supply. Going further I went and did a calculation for your situation basing it on an avg. cost of a 2 liter of coke @ $1.10 yielding approx. 6, 12 oz glasses. So 1.10/6 glasses = 18 cents a glass (not too shabby) But when I run the numbers with My breakmate I get back to that . 0135 per glass that's ( .18 / .0135) 13.33 glasses Of Mine for one glass from the 2 liter. That's 1333% savings/percent difference...........LOL. Seriously though lets get down to it, a breakmate costs say in total with the CO2 adapter and a 20 gal tank (external) hummmm around 400.00 . I have gotten them for much less due to luck and my willingness to tinker with them. OK so IM gonna go back to the 2 liter scenario, that's 18cents you would have to drink 400/.18 to break even that's 2,222 drinks then your home free, now 2,222 drinks divided 12 months is 185 of them a month for a year. So that gives you an Idea of how long you would have to wait to see a savings. Assuming your spending a Max of 400.00 you can get them for less I have seen them go for 250.00 ish on ebay etc. Hope that helps or maybe just confuses the issue.
here are some Key points:
Using the breakmate with the syrups they sell and the Small co2 costs you around 28cents for a glass..............IE NO DEAL
If you ditch the Small co2 buy 3 breakmate syrup boxes and refill you drop the cost to 1.3 cents each...........IE cheap
a can of coke costs avg. 25 cents
as for the bottling I use the lever bench kind See link above to the bottle caps its on the same page/ one like the one I use, Don't try the squeeze kind you will get tired quick the lever kind takes around 3 sec to cap the bottle (its a learning curve/ get in the groove of things kinda deal)
One major thing is when you buy pop in a 2 liter it still will taste like a pop from a 2 liter no matter what you rebottle it in. If you "make your own pop" its just like the fountain at any resteraunt/theater and will taste like a real glass bottled drink. Dunno how old everyone is but I recall glass and Its Much better tasting then cans or 2 liters :-)
Finally yes when you go to MCdonalds your being ripped off when you pay 1.15 for a pop, a funny tidbit Soda pop is the highest profit money maker for any restaurant, and the Movie theaters prices get real LOL
Hopefully I haven't bord everyone with this :-) have fun and reply if you have any other questions concerns or tell me my math skills stink........LOL
here are some Key points:
Using the breakmate with the syrups they sell and the Small co2 costs you around 28cents for a glass..............IE NO DEAL
If you ditch the Small co2 buy 3 breakmate syrup boxes and refill you drop the cost to 1.3 cents each...........IE cheap
a can of coke costs avg. 25 cents
as for the bottling I use the lever bench kind See link above to the bottle caps its on the same page/ one like the one I use, Don't try the squeeze kind you will get tired quick the lever kind takes around 3 sec to cap the bottle (its a learning curve/ get in the groove of things kinda deal)
One major thing is when you buy pop in a 2 liter it still will taste like a pop from a 2 liter no matter what you rebottle it in. If you "make your own pop" its just like the fountain at any resteraunt/theater and will taste like a real glass bottled drink. Dunno how old everyone is but I recall glass and Its Much better tasting then cans or 2 liters :-)
Finally yes when you go to MCdonalds your being ripped off when you pay 1.15 for a pop, a funny tidbit Soda pop is the highest profit money maker for any restaurant, and the Movie theaters prices get real LOL
Hopefully I haven't bord everyone with this :-) have fun and reply if you have any other questions concerns or tell me my math skills stink........LOL
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 15, 2005, 04:54:20 pm
Not bored at all. I find it very interesting. Thanks Adam101.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on February 15, 2005, 10:41:56 pm
yes, I heard the pop only runs then about 5 cents in a fast food restaurant. The cups are a nickel too. They make extreme profit on fries too.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: Paul M. on February 15, 2005, 11:55:09 pm
Great info, Adam! Thanks for sharing. I've never seen a Breakmate myself. But it sound like any fountain machine will work. It's interesting what you said about the tastes.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 16, 2005, 12:27:26 am
Well if you check My post a week or so ago I posed a picture I had saved on my PC of my breakmate. Yes your correct any fountain will work the breakmate just seems to be the cheapest/smallest footprint. You can even use a Wunderbar( soda gun used in bars etc)
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 16, 2005, 01:02:08 am
Here's what I have, though I haven't gotten around to hooking it up yet.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on February 16, 2005, 01:05:58 am
I just found and bought the original 1967 service manual for it last week on eBay!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on March 04, 2005, 09:40:36 pm
Bringing back an old thread...I stumbled across Cheerwine tonight. Nice 12oz bottles with acl. Something I hadn't seen around here before. Only 2.59 a six pack, so relatively decent price for glass. Real cane sugar. Haven't tried it yet.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: glassbottlesrule on March 04, 2005, 11:12:00 pm
Boy I'm jealous. Cheerwine is the wife's favorite and it cost me a bundle to keep our machines stocked with it. I have to drive to Cincinnanti and by for about $1.20 a bottle or order from beveragesdirect at about 40 bucks a case.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on March 08, 2005, 09:40:22 pm
In my CS96d I have the following Coke 10 oz bottles, IBC root Beer, Jones creme Soda, Jones Root Beer, Dr. Pepper in Bottles ( get it from My relatives in Texas, the original Texas DP plant will do long neck bottles in glass, 3 each 24 count cases for $45 this last time) , Miller Lite, Bud and water.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on March 08, 2005, 09:46:16 pm
| Quote (travismcgee @ Mar. 08 2005,8:40) |
| In my CS96d I have the following Coke 10 oz bottles... |
Travis, where do you get the Coke in 10 oz. bottles???
By the way, welcome to the forum. We're glad that you are here.
Can we see some photos of that CS96d?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: firemun on April 08, 2005, 10:30:13 pm
Guess I will jump on the wagon here too and kick up this old thread.
I am pretty fortunate that I live only a couple hours from the Dr Pepper Bottling Company in West Jefferson NC. They bottle about 25 - 50 flavors (depending on demand) in glass bottles. My in laws run a summer time produce market with one of my machines in it. So in the summer, we make a trip about once a month and get a pick-up load.
In my machines I usually keep:
Nehi - Grape and Orange 10 oz Glass
Crush Grape, Strawberry & Orange 10 oz glass
Dr Pepper Diet Dr. P 10 oz glass
Diet and regular Mt Dew 10 oz glass
Coke and Diet Coke 8 oz glass
RC Cola 10 oz glass
Welch’s grape
Assorted non name brands
The Cokes and Crush you can get at Sam's Club for about 9.00 - 11.00 dollars per case of 24
The others from the bottler cost me 14.50 a case
Also just started keeping some Cheerwine, they are headquartered about 15 minutes from me and have really put a lot of glass bottles out lately. I noticed in the bookstore on campus where I teach that several glass bottles from West Jefferson have made an appearance and seem to be staging a comeback.
I would really love some pepsi in glass bottles. I can find the little short fat ones but not the long necks. Anyone know of anywhere to get some?
Jeff
I am pretty fortunate that I live only a couple hours from the Dr Pepper Bottling Company in West Jefferson NC. They bottle about 25 - 50 flavors (depending on demand) in glass bottles. My in laws run a summer time produce market with one of my machines in it. So in the summer, we make a trip about once a month and get a pick-up load.
In my machines I usually keep:
Nehi - Grape and Orange 10 oz Glass
Crush Grape, Strawberry & Orange 10 oz glass
Dr Pepper Diet Dr. P 10 oz glass
Diet and regular Mt Dew 10 oz glass
Coke and Diet Coke 8 oz glass
RC Cola 10 oz glass
Welch’s grape
Assorted non name brands
The Cokes and Crush you can get at Sam's Club for about 9.00 - 11.00 dollars per case of 24
The others from the bottler cost me 14.50 a case
Also just started keeping some Cheerwine, they are headquartered about 15 minutes from me and have really put a lot of glass bottles out lately. I noticed in the bookstore on campus where I teach that several glass bottles from West Jefferson have made an appearance and seem to be staging a comeback.
I would really love some pepsi in glass bottles. I can find the little short fat ones but not the long necks. Anyone know of anywhere to get some?
Jeff
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on April 08, 2005, 10:36:26 pm
Mexican Pepsi is available in the 355ml (12 oz) bottles. You may try your local Mexican restuarants. Jungle Jims in fairfield Oh has them for $1.29 a bottle. A little pricey, but the pure cane sugar will make you realize it is worth it.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on April 23, 2005, 08:30:01 pm
Bought a case of Cheerwine today at Wegman's. $13.96 a case plus .56 tax. Not bad, and I like the stuff.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: dr galaga on April 24, 2005, 12:20:12 pm
I've seen people discussing Cherrywine, but what does it taste like? Cherry juice?
The UPS guy delivered some soda for me from PA on Friday. Some Birch Beer from Kuntztown Bottling Works. Pretty good.
I think that the next thing I'm going to try is some Root Beer from Point Brewery (Stevens Point, WI). It is sweetened with sugar and honey. Sounds interesting. Any of you "Northerners" try this before?
The UPS guy delivered some soda for me from PA on Friday. Some Birch Beer from Kuntztown Bottling Works. Pretty good.
I think that the next thing I'm going to try is some Root Beer from Point Brewery (Stevens Point, WI). It is sweetened with sugar and honey. Sounds interesting. Any of you "Northerners" try this before?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on April 24, 2005, 03:15:57 pm
How much was the shipping on the birch beer?
Cheerwine doesn't taste like cherry juice. I think it is closer to, but not the same as a Dr. Pepper. We had lunch/dinner yesterday at Old Dominion brewery in Ashburn, VA. Their root beer is made from sugar and sweetened with honey.
Cheerwine doesn't taste like cherry juice. I think it is closer to, but not the same as a Dr. Pepper. We had lunch/dinner yesterday at Old Dominion brewery in Ashburn, VA. Their root beer is made from sugar and sweetened with honey.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: dr galaga on April 24, 2005, 03:38:22 pm
Shipping was about $15.50 (should be cheaper to you, plus use a business address). Total bill for 24 bottles was $31. I looked at it this way - I spent $28 for a case of Dew, what's $3 more? 
http://www.kutztownbottlingworks.com/storehtmls/storebirch.html
http://www.kutztownbottlingworks.com/storehtmls/storebirch.html
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on April 24, 2005, 03:47:52 pm
My wife says I need to go back and get a case of Diet Cheerwine. I probably won't buy anything online and pay for shipping as long as I can load my machine with sodas that I buy at the store. I am having the hardest time finding Sprite in glass though. I am waiting to hear back from a couple of supermarkets that carry the 8oz Cokes.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on December 09, 2005, 11:09:11 pm
Went to get more Cheerwine today and they now have the cases of 12oz bottles priced at $11.99 for 24. So, if you are ever headed up or down I95 through Virginia, I can hook ya up!
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on December 11, 2005, 09:13:14 pm
Has anyone ever had Red Rock Cola or Ginger Ale? If so, how is it?
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: DanV on December 11, 2005, 09:56:24 pm
Red rock is a lot like RC, not very special to me.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: on December 12, 2005, 01:24:36 am
Don't see Red Rock often in the places I have been, but it was alright once and awhile. Grew up in Detroit, Michigan area, love Vernor's Ginger Ale. Also Canada Dry Ginger Ale usually isn't half bad, good mixer.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: glassbottlesrule on December 12, 2005, 06:47:57 pm
Red Rock Cola is decent, Dan V is right it's alot like RC but smoother. Red Rock Ginger is one of my favorites though. It's alot like Vernors was before they started tinkering with the formula. Real spicy with a bite that takes your breath away. Not as crazy hot as Bleinhein's but nice and spicy.
Title: What do you stock your machine with?
Post by: halehouse on December 12, 2005, 08:31:54 pm
Thanks. I'll have my parents pick up some Red Rock (to try) and I'll see them this weekend. I'll try anything in glass.