Hot Glue bottle wax experiment

[sfrisby]

 

[Stealthcruiser]

sfrisby..........."Where" in Atlanta are ya' located?

 

[sfrisby]

Dunwoody

 

[poptarts]

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Did you get that beer to bottle carb?

 

[sfrisby]

Forced carbed and bottled out of the keg.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

So after enviously looking at everyone's waxed bottles, I finally decided to give it a try. I had three 750ml bottles of my quad (the rest are corked & caged in 375s) that I experimented with. As usually is the case with things taught on here, I'm now kicking myself for not doing it sooner! I do have a few small batch fruited saison bottles that will get it next. Thanks for this thread!

 

[finsfan]

So after enviously looking at everyone's waxed bottles, I finally decided to give it a try. I had three 750ml bottles of my quad (the rest are corked & caged in 375s) that I experimented with. As usually is the case with things taught on here, I'm now kicking myself for not doing it sooner! I do have a few small batch fruited saison bottles that will get it next. Thanks for this thread!

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What was your ratio?

 

[mcbaumannerb]

What was your ratio?

Two standard glue sticks per full crayon. Melted much quicker than I was expecting which made it a much easier task than I thought it would be.

 

[finsfan]

Two standard glue sticks per full crayon. Melted much quicker than I was expecting which made it a much easier task than I thought it would be.

awesome! I tried this method once but had trouble getting the glue sticks to melt on my glass top stove. I will just have to use my neighbors gas stove

 

[mcbaumannerb]

awesome! I tried this method once but had trouble getting the glue sticks to melt on my glass top stove. I will just have to use my neighbors gas stove

I used my side burner on the grill in a soup can and that worked like a charm. Once I added the crayon and smelled the result, I was glad I was outside!

 

[finsfan]

I used my side burner on the grill in a soup can and that worked like a charm. Once I added the crayon and smelled the result, I was glad I was outside!

Great idea! Another reason to get outside and grill. Thanks Mark

 

[sfrisby]

Mark, we are about due for another Homebrew beer mail swap

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Just waxed and labelled my pumpkin porter yesterday. Now I just have to wait for it to carbonate! :beard:

 

[finsfan]

Just waxed and labelled my pumpkin porter yesterday. Now I just have to wait for it to carbonate! :beard:

Damn those look good Mark! Nice work

 

[sfrisby]

Goooood lookin'!

 

[Throw_Back]

How difficult is everyone finding the wax to take off? I waxed some bottles with 1 crayon: 4"x.44" gluestick and I find them very difficult to get off. I do like the looks of them though!

 

[mcbaumannerb]

I'm using a wax cutting knife (from a corkscrew) to cut the wax when opening and that is working fine . Then I use it to slide behind the wax and cut upward to get it to release from the neck. So far it's working well for me. I did the 1 crayon per 2 glue sticks though so the extra glue may make your wax harder to work.

 

[jvotava91]

I am going to wax a bourbon barrel stout in a few weeks and reading through this thread and based on my trials it is hard to get off the wax. Has anyone ever tried to use pinstriping tape around the bottle similar to markers mark? http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...oap?ck=Search_N2512_-1_274&pt=N2512&ppt=C2390
This is 40 feet on 1/16" tape for 3 bucks. I figure it is worth a shot.

 

[Trippel-A]

I am going to wax a bourbon barrel stout in a few weeks and reading through this thread and based on my trials it is hard to get off the wax. Has anyone ever tried to use pinstriping tape around the bottle similar to markers mark? http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...oap?ck=Search_N2512_-1_274&pt=N2512&ppt=C2390
This is 40 feet on 1/16" tape for 3 bucks. I figure it is worth a shot.

Makers lines up the tape with where the cap meets the bottle neck. That'd be hard to do with beer. Are you going to put it directly under the cap?

 

[jvotava91]

Im not sure where the best spot to put it. Maybe but the tape on before capping the beer all together to make it easier? I may play around with it a little bit tomorrow with some beer I have already bottled. I will report my findings.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

At the bottom of the cap so it peels away the wax making room for a bottle opener. Barrel Aged Abraxas has that on it:

 

[jvotava91]

At the bottom of the cap so it peels away the wax making room for a bottle opener. Barrel Aged Abraxas has that on it:
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Awesome. Thats exactly what I was thinking. Maybe I dont have to do a test run afterall

 

[skeezerpleezer]

I would put the top of the tape on the bottom of the cap. Maybe make 2 layers, in case the tape is weak to prevent tearing. If it's the tape with nylon strings you should be good with 1.

 

[FatDragon]

Thread necro here...

I dug through this a bit and never found much info on weight ratios; a little bit, but the few relevant posts were a bit contradictory.

Anyway, I got around to waxing my RIS tonight. My glue sticks are 11mm diameter and 200mm long, and my crayons broken castoffs from my job as a kindergarten teacher, so I went by weight rather than number. 215 g glue to 80 g crayons gave me what seems to be a very good facsimile of, say, Maker's Mark wax in consistency and ease of removal, color notwithstanding since I just grabbed crayons in random handfuls to get my weight.

Interestingly, the color of the finished product varies a bit based on the heat of the wax at application. In the case of my randomly mixed grayish mess, the hotter bottles have a darker, slightly green tint not really distinguishable in the picture.

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[JNewbs]

Nice info, and good looking wax. That being said in my own tinkering I found that high of a glue ratio to be hell to get off come drinking time. It's pretty but I can't get through it with a bottle opener. For a more user friendly experience, I thinned it way down with paraffin. The finish isn't so glossy or lucious looking but it will give way to an opener a lot easier.

 

[FatDragon]

Nice info, and good looking wax. That being said in my own tinkering I found that high of a glue ratio to be hell to get off come drinking time. It's pretty but I can't get through it with a bottle opener. For a more user friendly experience, I thinned it way down with paraffin. The finish isn't so glossy or lucious looking but it will give way to an opener a lot easier.

I tried tearing the wax off of a bottle to get to the cap and it came off a treat. It took a couple seconds to get the initial tear, but once I had broken it open, it peeled off nicely in one big piece. The bonus is that if I hold on to those, I can heat them up in the can again for future reuse.

 

[Lgaddy44]

Had some extra volume from a batch a few weeks ago so I figured I'd bottle and try this waxing method. I'm pretty happy with how easy it was. I used 4 crayons and 8 sticks of glue to make this. I probably could've done another have dozen bottles, with what's left.

It'll work well for the RIS I'll be bottling for aging in a few weeks.

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[butterpants]

You've gone through the trouble to wax the tops but don't remove the old lables? Can I get a wtf?

 

[FatDragon]

You've gone through the trouble to wax the tops but don't remove the old lables? Can I get a wtf?

Yeah, what a lazy jerk right? I mean, who would even do something like that?

don't scroll up four or five posts...

 

[butterpants]

HA is this thread littered with the semi-lazy? I haven't rolled through it in a while. Gotta admit, it's kinda a strange juxtaposition of detail, care, presentation and being a lazy slob