imaguitargod
Well-Known Member
You are probably right here, man.
My own method, tested yesterday over 2-3 hours. I cleaned, delabeled and sanitized 3 cases of bottles in hot water and StarSan. Most of the labels came right off. The rest of them i used a curved metal scraper. To remove the glue i used a square of blue aquarium filter sponge media (same stuff i used to scrub my bottling bucket, etc.). The labels i had the worst time with were labels that used vinyl stickets and foil necks. All were clean. Some glue residue, but nothing to be concerned about.
Ya, UV coated labels really don't come off and neither do foil (well, easly that is). I always just skip those. Unfortunitly alot of bombers have UV coated lables...if you can pull the label off by hand, the 1-Step with get the residual glue off the bottle.