A toast to bottle design

Oh, man! I’ve had such excellent thrift-store luck over the past few weeks! In May, I did a This Week in Philly Etsy roundup which included a George Washington-shaped bitters bottle that was perhaps the coolest thing made of glass I’d ever seen, and then a couple of days ago I happened across a blue one in Second Mile at 45th and Walnut for $2. Hell yeah!

The lovely view of brick and gently flapping trashbag from my bathroom window has been greatly improved. Side note: anyone know why all the flowers would drop off an orchid except the three farthest from the window?

But based on the awesomeness of the George Washington bitters bottle and how my internet’s randomly flipping on and off while I try to write this post is driving me to drink, here’s a roundup of some other liquor bottles that I wouldn’t mind having empty, much less full:

Crystal Head vodka, $45. OK, this bottle is so sweet that I might even spend $45 on it if it wasn’t full of Dan Akroyd-approved vodka. Bonus: the marketing people behind this have either lost their minds or have a particularly on-point understanding of viral internet stuff. Not only did they get a not-getting-a-ton-of-roles-these-days-but-still-embedded-in-our-collective-nostalgia actor to rep it, but their website is 80% insane ramblings about the Mayans and the legend of the 13 crystal skulls that would sound more appropriate coming out of the mouth of some wild-eyed guy on the subway who smells like pee.

Corzo Tequila, $43. Simple but beautiful packaging design. Warning: if you click on the picture, it will go to the Corzo site, which hasn’t realized that unrequested background music is incredibly annoying on a website. This actually seems to be pretty widespread among liquor companies.

Tommy Gun Tequila: $40. Hijo de Villas Tequila Gun: $80. A gun-shaped bottle filled with a substance that makes people do really stupid things? Seems like a fantastic idea! I wasn’t remotely surprised to find that some Canadian 24-year-old was arrested the first week the brand was available for pointing one of the tommy-gun liquor bottles at a cop in the dark. You might say he was… loaded? ZING!

Lovejoy vodkas, $26. Integrity Spirits, a Portland-based company, makes their vodka in small, hand-crafted batches. It’s run by two guys who are best friends. And damn, does it look good.

1000 Acres vodka, doesn’t look like you can buy it at the moment. But I just had to include it anyway.

Samurai vodka, also seems to be unavailable. But seriously, though, just looking at the picture I’m getting the urge to watch Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi for the 15th time.