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12-01-2008, 12:49 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Bradley, IL
Posts: 669
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Easy Labels to Remove!
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After emptying about 100 bottles of different brands of beer, I have found the ones that have the easiest lables to remove (in my opinion).
Easy - Moosehead
Somewhat Easy - Sierra Nevada
Moderate - Highland Brewing Company
Freaking Ridiculous - Red Hook (let soak for 2 hours, still impossible to get off without scrubbing really really really hard.)
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Red Light Brewery
Drinking: Magic Hat #9 (clone)
Primary: Air
Past Brews: Haw Creek IPA, None More Black Vanilla Stout, Cranbeery, Dark Thunder (Scot Stout), Gaelic Ale (clone), Nacirema APA, Bee Funky IPA, Cream Ale.
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12-01-2008, 12:51 AM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Emerald City
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Red Hook is a snap compared to Pete's Wicked Ale. YMMV
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Fermenter - Mystery Hops Winter Ale - bottled Dec. 20 - 1 lb Crystal 40l, 8lb LME, 8 ounces Karo (why not?), and 6 or 7 handfulls of hops
Drinking - SMaSH ale from Mystery Backyard Hops Version II with less hops and more fermentables - bottled Nov. 17
Deep Reserve - SMaSH ale from Mystery Backyard Hops (into the bottles on October 11); a winner & saving 5 bottles out
Deep Reserve - LHBS Recipe IPA - first effort Sept. 13, good stuff but undercarbed; saving 4 bottles
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12-01-2008, 03:22 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbus WI
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Anything by New Glarus will float off like they were stuck on with milk (as most Hone brews are stuck on with).
I don't even bother with hard labels anymore.
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Secondary Kentucky Common(83)
Primary #1 Scottish Ale 70(84)
Primary #2 The Black Pearl Porter(85)
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12-01-2008, 03:23 AM
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Collembola!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Durham, NC
Posts: 418
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It will only matter to the NC folk, but I could never get the Big Boss labels off.
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Primary: empty
Secondary: AHB Dry Mead (17)
Bottled: EdWort's Apfelwein (15), Vienna - Cascade SMaSH (19)
Drinking:MO-Amarillo SMaSH (14), BierMucher's Black Pearl Porter (13), Munich-NB SMaSH (16), Lemon Summer Blonde (18)
Planning: Belgian Brown (20)
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12-01-2008, 03:41 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Brookfield IL
Posts: 401
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Quote:
Originally Posted by histo320
Freaking Ridiculous - Red Hook (let soak for 2 hours, still impossible to get off without scrubbing really really really hard.)
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Really? When I was collecting bottles those labels seemed to always fall off within 20 minutes of an oxyclean soak. Ditto on the New Glarus bottles too. I think they are put on with milk, They are practically coming off when I rinse them.
Avoid AT ALL COSTS Dark Horse bottles. As tasty as their brews are I believe they have used some sort of black magic and fused the labels to the glass. They are the only bottles i have ever just recycled because the hour I spent getting half of one label off was not worth it.
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Primary: Smoked Porter
Secondary: Flanders Red 2010
Kegged: 10.10.10, Robust Porter, American IPA
"Without algae, there would be no life on earth, the seas would be sterile and the land would be uncolonized."
-Sir David Attenborough
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12-01-2008, 09:08 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,413
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I always just soak min in water overnight or for like a day, scrape right of with a fingernail and the remnant glue I just use a scotchbrite pad for a few seconds.
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12-01-2008, 11:22 AM
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Killer of Hydrometers...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Dürty Soüth, GA
Posts: 1,373
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Atlanta Brewing Company's labels attach at the molecular level with glass... Two overnight soaks in HOT waster w/ Oxyclean revealed the outer most layer is actually a thin plastic film... After those were removed, the paper portion still required another soak and then a scrape...
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On deck : DFB Triple Black Death By Chocolate Stout
Primary: Notta...
Secondary: 21 Year Mead...
Kegged : DFB Belgian Pale, DFB Brown, DFB Belgian Dark Strong, DFB Cider...
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Originally Posted by Timberwolf
Non-Alcoholic beer is like going down on your cousin, it might taste the same but it just ain’t right!
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12-01-2008, 01:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbus WI
Posts: 2,879
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Atlanta Brewing Company's labels attach at the molecular level with glass
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LOL. So stay away from them ?
Rogue I just toss out also.
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Secondary Kentucky Common(83)
Primary #1 Scottish Ale 70(84)
Primary #2 The Black Pearl Porter(85)
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12-01-2008, 01:08 PM
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: "Detroitish" Michigan
Posts: 36,054
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Believe it or not Budweiser American Ale Labels fall off if you even look at them funny. Less than 5 minute after submerging a ton of bottles in hot oxyclean, the BAA labels were already on the surface.
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I gotta tell ya, just between us girls, that Revvy is HOT. Very tall, gorgeous grey hair and a terrific smile. He's very good looking in person, with a charismatic personality... he drives like a ****ing maniac! - YooperBrew
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12-01-2008, 01:29 PM
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[witty title pending]
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Zeeland, Michigan
Posts: 854
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Quote:
Originally Posted by histo320
Freaking Ridiculous - Red Hook (let soak for 2 hours, still impossible to get off without scrubbing really really really hard.)
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YES! Redhooks used to fall right off in water but when they changed their label design a few months ago I think they changed their adhesive as well. I recently did a soak in oxyclean of a variety of brands and to my suprise the Redhooks were by far the worst to get off.
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