Soak them in oxyclean then peel off the labels...the adhesive will still be on the bottle, but a quick rub with a scruffy will take that off.jerly said:I have a friend who has access to an endless supply of heineken bottles. The labels are the clear plastic kind. Does anyone have a solution that removes those kind of labels without a lot of elbow grease?
I was gonna let him slide on the green bottles so I could jump down his throat later for using corn sugar.SteveM said:Four replies and no one questioning the wisdom of using green bottles yet? This must be a new record!
Four replies and no one questioning the wisdom of using green bottles yet? This must be a new record!
Actually, I do store mine on the surface of the sun...I find it's almost as effective a sanitizer as bleach or tap water.Pumbaa said:It's not like you are storing your beer on the surface of the sun or out in the middle of the back yard.
oxford brewer said:Gooooooooooooooo Pumbaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rockin::rockin:
jerly said:I learned my lesson about the corn sugar on my first batch.
Ivan Lendl said:i prime with 5 ounces of bleach
i keep my beer in green-tinted, see through aluminum cans
i prime with 5 ounces of bleach
after i take a hydrometer reading i gargle the sample, then spit it back in the fermentor
i whirlpool my wort with my weiner
i bottle after the beer has been in the secondary for 10 minutes
i broke up with a girl because she said she liked coors-lite
jerly said:I'm completely aware of the green bottle thing, and I am going to store them in a dark place. ...I did mention that the heineken bottles were free, and I have used up my 2 cases of the good brown bottles I have purchased. I will gladly take a donation of bottles if you would like to send them to me.
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El Pistolero said:I was gonna let him slide on the green bottles so I could jump down his throat later for using corn sugar.
Besides, it's really a sin to be using twelve oz bottles anyway, so what difference does it make if they're green.
The gods intended that beer be served in pints...anything else is heresy.weberju said:Whats wrong with using 12oz bottles? I use them all the time. What size do other people use, 40's?
SteveM said:European bottles have a different mouth size than North American ones, thus the capping problem. I tossed a nice bunch of brown German bottles into the recycle bin (I forget what beer) for that reason. But you can buy caps (and I suppose a capper) to compensate.
Note that Harp and Guinness are bottled in Canada, so those bottles work with standard North American caps.
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