Since we don't have a golf cart, we have only one way to get such a load back to the distributor, and that's via bicycle. Fortunately, Barry has some excellent utility baskets on the rear rack of his bike that enabled us to get the whole load of bottles back to town. Good thing the biggest and only hill is the Sir Barry Bowen bridge, as this was quite a heavy load, but Barry was up for the challenge. I bet Sir Barry Bowen himself would have been proud!
We'd been collecting Belikin bottles for awhile as I'd been enjoying the Sorrel Stout holiday brew leading up to and during the holidays. Barry, silly boy, doesn't really care for Belikin, so I can't even blame any of the empties on him. A few days ago, renters in the unit next door to us left us a large number of empty (and some full as well) soda bottles and a soda case that they hadn't had time to return to Belikin for their deposit. It looked like free money to us, so who were we to say no? Since we don't have a golf cart, we have only one way to get such a load back to the distributor, and that's via bicycle. Fortunately, Barry has some excellent utility baskets on the rear rack of his bike that enabled us to get the whole load of bottles back to town. Good thing the biggest and only hill is the Sir Barry Bowen bridge, as this was quite a heavy load, but Barry was up for the challenge. I bet Sir Barry Bowen himself would have been proud! And we're off to town! At our destination, we unloaded all the bottles and made $13.75 (BZD, half that in US dollars) for our efforts. This would have gone towards a Belikin "party can", which is the easiest and least expensive way for me to buy beer for home consumption here, but they were all out. I guess that was a popular holiday item. Since party cans were sold out, I had to content myself with a few bottles of Belikin from the grocery store, thus beginning yet another bottle collection.
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BeBelize Emily
1/6/2012 08:35:43 am
No kidding!? I had been buying them with some regularity up until Sorrel Stout was introduced. Then I switched over to bottles. I didn't even think to ask the lady when they might have some back in stock. If you get any scoop, let me know. Thanks!
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Paula Segrest
1/6/2012 08:13:13 am
WOW! GO Berry!! It stinks, Emily, that they were out of the can you wanted. What was it? Some sort of collectable? I've been trying to get Coca-Cola glasses since I've been here...alas.
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BeBelize Emily
1/6/2012 08:37:30 am
No Paula, it's not anything collectable. It's just a large can of Belikin with a spout, kind of like a mini-keg of beer, so it keeps for awhile in the fridge. It's much easier to transport on a bike than a heavy case of beer with all those bottles. Hope they'll get some in soon.
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daddywags
1/6/2012 02:09:34 pm
Barry did BG proud! Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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