Removing Bottle Labels?

[reviled]

And 101 other ways to get divorced.

:lol: Your wife not too understanding Bum?

 

[Fermented]

OK - it's Friday and am having a nice day in the quiet home office so decided to run the test.

Here's the pics:

Test Group:



In the dishwasher:



After:




And the verdict is:
* Why bother?
* Only the Stella body label and the Oettinger label came off.
* Deuchars didn't budge but looks clean and shiny. Asahi barely budged. Groslch unmoved. Hoegaarden lifted a little bit.
* Labels were in one piece on the floor of the dishwasher and no gunk in the filter.


Recommendations:
* Don't do it if you have a dishwasher with an exposed heating element (F&P, etc). Labels will get stuck to it and probably get rather well toasted or burnt.
* Check the filter out after. It may have paper waste in it.
* Bottle cleanliness? Externally OK. Insides aren't too bad either.


For my money, I think it would be cheaper and easier to fill the laundry tub or bath tub with bottles, add hot water and some Morning Fresh and have some fun (hah!) with a scraper and stainless steel wool.


Insert disclaimer here: If you're silly enough to do this, you should evaluate the risks first. You do it by your own decision and at your own risk.


Have fun! And now I'm going to have a beer while I finish up this week's work.


Cheers - Fermented.

 

[cdbrown]

Laundry sink or a fermenter, some unscented napisan, hot water then add the bottles. Do it in the evening, come back in the morning and most labels will easily come off. If not a rub with the scourer will finish it off. Did 3/4 carton this morning no problems.

 

[jdsaint]

done hogarden other night soaked in water scourer and then its gone

 

[Renegade]

My brother left me some of those blasted Deuchars bottles to deal with. They are, hands down, the worst labels to get off. Damn Scottish !

Although, if you take a razor blade and pry off a corner to peel away each sticker in on peice, then sok the glue covered bottles for a while, a heavy duty steel mesh scourer gets the stuff off with a bit of elbow grease. And actually they are very good, strong bottles. Praise the Scottish !

 

[wynnum1]

the longer soaked the easier to remove

 

[Stouter]

Holiday mission, to de-label my bottle stock (290 odd and growing). Been going the napisan soak overnight in every tub/trough/sink/receptacle I can muster for the last few days. Become a morning routine of rinsing and storing them, straight after early morning Tai Chi and my Latte...yeah you guys know what I'm talking about right?!.
I'm sticking to bottle right now, I couldn't trust myself with a keg set up.

30 or so bottles from the finish, and a mate drops off 6 chaff bags full of old style export/emu bitter bottles (over 100) some farmer gave him that look like they've been sitting in the grain shed for the last 'X' years, nice heavy gauge feel to them. Certainly can't say no.

The morning routine continues...

 

[ein stein]

... Tai Chi and my Latte...

Have you tried Tai Chi and Chai tea?

 

[Vini2ton]

Emu Export. Jeez. I drank gallons of that stuff in the late 70s over west. Used to take chaff-bags off cans to the tip when I worked in a dry community in the 90s. That fella drink too much. Napisan soak works a treat, but those hook norton silver ones can get ******.

 

[Lachlan Helbig]

A little off topic fellas, but the missus bought some Murrays Rudeboy pilsner and the bottles say "do not refill". Should I heed that warning or say screw it?

 

[Lachlan Helbig]

And something that's on topic, I used sard oxy (napisan, sodium percarbonate) in a small esky with a bunch of bottles. I used hot water and closed the lid overnight. The water was still warm in the morning and most labels were just slipping off, taking the glue with them. Except for the knappstein bottle, don't even try to remove this apoxy-like glue.

Lachlan

 

[unwrittenlaw]

How would a heat gun go?