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While you wait for your wine to ferment and settle you may be enjoying some hard liquor. I must visit the recycling center on occasion too.

Assuming your tastes are sophisticated enough to come in glass bottles then you are lucky.

Glass hard liquor bottles with their original screw tops are exceptional containers for wine.

I am sure experienced craft vintners will disagree but this site is for practical cheap solutions.

As long as you kept your empty liquor bottles sealed (and did not drink directly from the neck) they are sterile. Whether it was whiskey, rum, or vodka you can safely re-fill them with your wine. The few drops left in the bottle will not affect the taste of your wine.

Do not try to wash the bottles. You will just introduce contaminates. I have wine stored this way that has been 8 years old and in perfect condition. Those plastic screw top seals are very airtight but store the bottles upright instead of tilted like you would with corks.

Do not try this with beer though. The seal will not support the internal pressure.

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