I have a couple bottles of 17 year old beer in a flip top bottle! Opened one last summer. Drinkable, but not tasty by any means. A group of a dozen people, and it wasn't even half drank with everyone sampling it. So it did not get better with that much age. It was an amber.

Back in the early 90's I and my brewing buddy bought Fisher Amber in flip top bottles. 22 ouncers. The beer was drinkable, and the bottles are still being used today. It was a nice way to get a few cases of bottles without buying new ones, and still have some beer to drink along the way while waiting for the batches to ferment. Yes, the Fisher Amber bottles were filled with an Amber homebrew as their first re-fill.

Grolsch is another flip top you can buy, drink, and reuse as someone else pointed out.