Flying with beer
This article - Traveling with wine: Dealing with the new airline regulations - is really about flying with wine, and packing it well in your shipped luggage. But bottles of alcohol are bottles of alcohol . . .
The gritty details start several paragraphs from the lead. All the tips are terrific, and some are things we’ve been doing for years. For instance, taking along extra pairs of white socks to become the first layer of protection around bottles.
One interesting difference is that he creates one large package. We’ve tended to try to spreads bottles around our suitcases. The logic is that banging into something hard is how bottles get broken, and other bottles are one of the hardest objects they may get smacked with.
Spreading things around with 12-ounce (or 33cl) bottles is easier than with 75cl (wine) bottles. You can usually stick a bottle inside a shoe, for instance.
