Best way to get old beer labels off

[newb]

Baking soda, 1 cup in 5 gallon bucket of hot water, labels float off with little work... Except earlier mentioned crazy insane glued labels. But MOST LABELS just float off or easily wipe away in baking soda after like 15 minutes.

 

[billingsbrew]

Try a large amount of baking soda in your overnight soak...I mean a lot. You can get whole boxes from the Dollar Store, real cheep probably just a dollar!

 

[C-Rider]

Here's what I do which is something like mufflerbearing said.
1-put about 3.5 gallons of cold water in a 5 gallon bucket w/measured amt of OxyClean.
2-collect bottles as you drink and when you get 12 put them in the bucket.
3-begin collecting emptys again and when you have 12 swap what's in the bucket. By then the labels should be off.

Easy Squeezy no need gloves or hot water. Of course only works if you keep your "bottle line" progressing....

 

[pointlessbrew]

+1 for Oxiclean.

I fill an ice chest with a heaping scoop, soak for 12-24 hours and most of the labels have already come off the bottles when I go to empty the ice chest. This last batch of bottles I did I took a green scotch bright pad to each bottle and it got the rest of the glue residue off with a couple of wipes.

I've found Firestone labels are the easiest labels to get off.

 

[DasHos]

I'm totally bringing an old thread back from the dead....but what about painted on labels?

 

[eltorrente]

Ammonia is the cheapest way. I used to use a couple cups in a five gallon bucket of hot water, and the labels would just fall right off.

Nowadays I use various oxygen cleaners, and they work just as well - but they are more expensive. I use these cleaners just because they work so well on cleaning gunk from the inside of bottles, also.

As far as labels go - ammonia is the cheapest way to do it.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Ammonia is the cheapest way. I used to use a couple cups in a five gallon bucket of hot water, and the labels would just fall right off.

Nowadays I use various oxygen cleaners, and they work just as well - but they are more expensive. I use these cleaners just because they work so well on cleaning gunk from the inside of bottles, also.

As far as labels go - ammonia is the cheapest way to do it.

Really? I can get a tub of no name brand type oxygen cleaner for pretty cheap.

Painted lables. OK, haven;t tried this but we used to use bug spray, lysol and a few other products to get logos off plastic when shooting video.