Transporting bottles

[sonicated]

I took the last two bottles of my Woodfordes Wherry (brewed with S-04) out of the fridge and for 20 min car ride to my Dad's on Sunday. When I got there I let them settle for an hour and cracked one open. Unfortunately it was cloudy and tasted horribly yeasty. The rest of the batch was perfectly clear when consumed at home.

Has anyone managed to transport bottles and drink them reasonably quickly?

I have thought about adding extra priming sugar, conditioning in large PET bottled then syphoning into pint bottles before use and sealing - does this sound like a disaster?

[OldSpeckledBadger]

If you get the beer really cold then you can carefully transfer it to a fresh bottle without losing much conditioning.

[b.all]

i've carried them round to peoples houses and drunk them almost immediately but after a car journey they need a couple of days to settle down really.

[cwrw gwent]

A couple of years ago I found nine Bulmers Cider crates (6 x 2 pints) in a builders skip so I liberated them from landfill and have used them ever since for storage and transport. I often go to friends' houses and take my own ale which can be consumed immediately. I recently came across three Newcastle Brown crates (12 x 1 pint) which were left over after a local club had closed so I made an offer of crates for ale which was accepted. Actually, the guy in charge said I could have them for nothing but I thought I should give him a bottle or three.

I also take my beer to the in-laws, along 75 miles of motorway and dual carriageway and it comes to no harm.

I'm not sure where you can (legally) acquire crates but you often see them dumped on derelict land and building sites or the result of fly tipping, so if you take them for your own use you are also helping the environment.