Green Alien Visions Bottles

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Does anybody remember these awesome bottles AVE used to have ? Were an I find these????? They were my favorite bottles!! Would love to make my DIY liquid in these.
 

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Those bottles rocked. Extremely pocket friendly. The 30ml bottles were green and were very difficult to squeeze, but were not at all the same as these smaller 12ml & 18ml bottles (like the one pictured above). These were super easy to squeeze juice out of.

I'm glad you posted this because I still, on occasion, refill a few of those old green bottles (again, so pocket friendly) and I've been wondering... You know how when you refill a plastic water bottle a few times it starts to taste bad? I wonder if these bottles do this, or something analogous to it, and if I should stop using them. I've never noticed a change in taste, so part of me wants to think the plastic used to make these bottles is of a different type (hopefully the type that doesn't do this). My concern (although not enough of a concern to have made me stop using them altogether) is that perhaps the "off" taste like you get from a 2 day old water bottle just doesn't translate or come through with the vapor, but is there nonetheless, and potentially doing bad things to me.

To be safe I could just stop using them, but sometimes pocket space is at a premium and I don't wanna carry a larger bottle.

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and I've been wondering... You know how when you refill a plastic water bottle a few times it starts to taste bad? I wonder if these bottles do this, or something analogous to it, and if I should stop using them. I've never noticed a change in taste, so part of me wants to think the plastic used to make these bottles is of a different type (hopefully the type that doesn't do this). My concern (although not enough of a concern to have made me stop using them altogether) is that perhaps the "off" taste like you get from a 2 day old water bottle just doesn't translate or come through with the vapor, but is there nonetheless, and potentially doing bad things to me.

Thoughts?

I think part of the off taste with a water bottle is from impurities in the water and the backwash effect, both building up more over a few refills/reuses, neither of which really applies in this application. As long as the plastic isn't starting to break down (ie - cloudy appearance, etc) from exposure to ingredients in the juice it should be fine. But that's just my :2c:

I too would like to know where to get more of these

I looked pretty hard back when AVE stopped using them, never found their like. There were some on ebay similar in shape but a light blue color, but that's as close as I found. I've only ever had a few of those bottles and I wish I'd saved them, at the time I didn't realize they were an endangered species :(
 

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If you look up the number on the 100ml bottles this company comes up.

Plastic Bottles :: Bottles :: Container and Packaging Supply

Maybe they still have them but it looks like they sell a million different bottles so they might be hard to find on the site. If they even have them, and if that's even who supplied the old bottles. Long shot I guess.
 

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If you look up the number on the 100ml bottles this company comes up.

Plastic Bottles :: Bottles :: Container and Packaging Supply

Maybe they still have them but it looks like they sell a million different bottles so they might be hard to find on the site. If they even have them, and if that's even who supplied the old bottles. Long shot I guess.

Pretty sure Ben would've kept using them had he found them. Not like I know him personally or anything, but I seem to remember him expressing a fondness for those bottles and being bummed out about not being able to get them anymore.

I checked the site anyway, sorted 12-18ml, no luck. I guess I haven't really tried to look lately, who knows. Perhaps someone more industrious than I'm feeling at the moment could locate them. Good find if you do.

In the meantime I'll hold on to the ones I have :)
 
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