Andy_Burbank
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I drink all sorts of beers so I have a variation of bottles, I know that to reuse bottles for bottling you need to have pop offs but wanted to know which brands are good to reuse and which to stay away from. Thanks!
I drink all sorts of beers so I have a variation of bottles, I know that to reuse bottles for bottling you need to have pop offs but wanted to know which brands are good to reuse and which to stay away from. Thanks!
Don't know if you drink any Mendocino Brewing Company (e.g. Red Tail), but I've noticed their labels are hard to get off. Sierra Nevada's labels are easy, and North Coast's are super easy.
Oxyclean is your friend
put your bottles into a bucket of hot water and oxy clean and the labels float right off.
Oxyclean is your friend*
smuttynose labels suck to get off...even with an oxyclean soak.
i like to use red hook bottles. They are a cool, stubby, retro style and don't use a lot of glue and also have a nice lip for the capper to grip come bottling time. An hour soak in hot water and oxyclean cleans em right up.
i like deschutes because around the top it has a hop vine that adds some nice detail to unlabeled bottles. But sierra nevada also because of their shape
Same with Pliny The Elder bottles; the label comes right off but the glue stays on the bottle and requires a green pad to scrub off
anything brown that isn't cracked
I like to use Red Hook bottles. They are a cool, stubby, retro style and don't use a lot of glue and also have a nice lip for the capper to grip come bottling time. An hour soak in hot water and oxyclean cleans em right up.
anything brown that isn't cracked
I've been trying to collect some red hook bottles (pretty dang cool), but have been having a hard time getting through the 6 packs.
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