Milk delivered in glass bottles. Anyone do this?

[DizzyPhillips]

Quite fancy doing this. Very much like the idea of buying milk from small local business rather than ASDA. Also for the novelty factor if I’m honest.

Questions: does it taste any different? Better/worse? What happens in warm weather if you are out all day?

Answers/opinions/experiences welcome!

I did and loved it but my neighbour, who was a recovering crack addict with 5 children, kept stealing it.

Milk and more are owned by Muller, the same people who could be selling your supermarket milk. Try and find an independent instead, ours is 63p a pint and they have an ice cream shop on the farm you can visit and see the cows.

I'm not a fan of the dairy industry at all and use oat milk but for DH it feels ever so slightly better and I like the plastic free aspect. Unfortunately supermarket milk is still better for the environment due to the efficiencies they have, these ethical things are so tricky to balance...

I really, really want to do this bus just can't afford to! Is it really that expensive? Aw man!

We do- 3 times a week with eggs too. It’s delivered really early so no chance to get warm. I love the foil tops and I think it tastes better than shop bought. The full fat has a proper layer of cream on the top.

I love it! It stops us spending money going to the shop for milk and spending £40 on crap

It tastes so so so much better in glass and not plastic

We have morefresh, it's more expensive than supermarket milk (we pay £3 a week for 4pt compared to £1.50 Max for the same amount in Asda. It wouldn't really be viable if we were one of those families that drinks gallons of milk

Our milkman lives just down the road and I had fantasies of an old fashioned electric milk float delivering the milk at the crack of dawn but it's a drop side truck thing .. so that was a bit sad and upsetting for DS who wanted it to be a milk float! He is very quiet though. We have no idea when he comes but we know it's a truck because we've seen him in the daylight delivering to other houses. It's great how many people have a milkman or who want one!

Anyone living in central London getting milk bottles delivered in normal (pre-Covid) times? Does it work if you live in a flat, say on the 2nd floor?

My parents carried on with this until about 10 years ago. The combination of very determined birds pecking the lids and slugs on the bottles made them stop.

We get ours from a local milkman. The milk lasts fine, especially if it's unopened (definitely at least a week)

I think once it's opened it maybe doesn't last as long (certainly a few days though) so I've just bought some resizable silicon bottle tops which I'm hoping will help.

I did it mostly for environmental reasons as I'm trying to cut down on plastic.

We've always had our milk delivered. We get a pint each of skimmed and semi-skimmed every day. I pay the milkman every Thursday. I just put the cash out and he collects it at 3am! He lives in the next village and delivers in all weathers and in over 30 years he has never let us down.

We swapped to milk bottles from our local milkman just before lockdown.
I don't think the milk stays as fresh once opened as milk in plastic bottles does but I still prefer having glass bottles.
Ours is delivered about 4am and I purchased a polystyrene container for the milk to go in until we fetch it in around 6am.