North Mountain Supply - BTS-50 Screw Type Bottle Drying Tree - 50 Bottles Black/Red

I use high quality wine bottles for my wine making (not the cheap thin glass stuff you can buy online). These bottles are heavier, made with a thicker glass, and a bit larger. First, I ordered a 90 bottle tree and was sent a 48 bottle tree...so I sent it back. The quality of the plastic is good, although I have concerns about putting 90 larger wine bottles (750ml) on the tree. I liked the idea of being able to dry 90 bottles at a time in a small space...but this is just an idea as you will read and not actually achievable with this design.THE MAIN PROBLEMIf you use quality wine bottles, you can only put about 1/2 the quoted bottles on the tree. You have to skip every other row as the bottles WILL NOT fit. There is no way to use every branch on the tree. The tree can probably hold beer or smaller wine bottles mounted an every branch ok but if you are serious about your wine making and like quality bottles you will only get about 50-60% of the quoted bottles on the tree.THE SECOND PROBLEMSince the wine bottles are sitting at an angle and not vertical, water sits at the neck of the bottle as it drains. This causes for long drying times as it evaporates back into the bottle. I previously used a bottle holder that allows for vertical placement of the bottles and these dry much faster, After letting them sit in the tree for a while, when I would remove them there was still water inside. This could result in bacteria building up if they don't dry quickly. I will go back to using a vertical wine bottle holder.If you don't mind buy a 48 bottle holder and only being able to use it for 24 bottles and if you don't mind the long drying time due to water accumulating at the neck of the bottle then this is a well built unit. They should be clearer about the maximum size of the bottle that can be used to get 100% usage of the bottle tree.

Definitely reduces the amount of space my bottles take up. I can’t say that my bottles always dry quickly though. I have some bottles it’s probably been a week and they’re still have moisture in them. I found that if you wash them and rinse them in very hot water they dry quicker. But I am definitely pleased with this purchase and would recommend it.

Recently been getting into more home brewing, and this stand is perfect for storing my bottles after they've been washed.

easy to assemble and made of very good plastic !!! robust and well designed !!

I was skeptical at first, never having seen this in use, but it is a MUST for bottle cleaning, drying, or sanitizing!

I got two of these to make one massive tower. Also great because I have a lot more room to work.

Just what I needed

This tower is perfect for drying wine bottles