When your bottle of Nc’nean comes to an end, do not completely despair! There are great ways to keep it in use by converting our 100% recycled glass bottle into something pretty and practical in your home.
We have three different types of full size bottles for our whisky at Nc’nean: our blue bottles for limited edition releases, our opaque single cask bottles and our clear flagship and cask strength bottles. Each of the three types look lovely when upcycled so if you fancy extending the lifecycle of your empty bottle here are a few ways you can do so. (Our Botanical Spirit bottles also work well for upcycling too).
1. TABLE LAMP
With the right fitting kit, your empty bottle can be transformed into a beautiful table lamp. The easiest way is with a battery powered light bulb and a lamp shade or fairy lights look great too! We love this photo one of our customers sent in of their own creation.
2. CANDLE HOLDERS
The bottles also make excellent candle holders that look very elegant. We have some lovely beeswax candles on our website that look great with our empty whisky bottles. They are made by a company called Oakdale Bees who create their beautiful honeycomb style candles from beeswax from their hives in the wild meadow fields bordering Royal Windsor Forest. They use only British ingredients and use minimal packaging.
3. VASE
Nc’nean bottles make excellent vases, and work well more minimal arrangements as the necks are fairly narrow. Try filling them with wildflowers, herbs, or single stems of dried flowers too. This also works for our miniature bottles if you have a very small arrangement of flowers!
4. OLIVE OIL POURER
Pop a metal spout into the neck to make a stylish olive oil or vinegar dispenser. The bottle’s weight and shape make it ideal for kitchen use, and it’s a great way to cut down on single-use packaging. Other ways we have seen our bottles used in the kitchen are as rolling pins, or water jugs for dinner parties! (This picture is of our Botanical Spirit as an olive oil pourer but our whisky bottles work well for this too!).
5. REED DIFFUSER
Turn your empty bottle into a natural home fragrance diffuser. Simply fill it with a mix of essential oils and a carrier oil, then add a few reed sticks.
Please do send over any photos of the creative ways you use your bottles after the whisky is finished, we love to see them continuing their lifecycle. Additionally, if you can think of any other ways to upcycle our bottles we would love to hear them.
Also don’t forget that if upcycling isn’t really your thing you can always return the bottles to the distillery using our bottle return scheme with the pre-paid shipping label that comes with all UK website orders.