What Are The Worst Labels You've Ever Had To Remove?

[Bizier]

'orange power'

Cheers Sera

I probably won't be doing this though. I just got rid of all my 500mls to another brewer, I can't bear to throw them out. Now I have a wall of Coopers 750mls and 2 crates of Weihenstephaner bottle for when I brew something for my girlfriend who hates the Coopers bottles.

 

[Muggus]

2 crates of Weihenstephaner bottle for when I brew something for my girlfriend who hates the Coopers bottles.

Hates Coopers bottles?
They're like the best longies still in production in Australia!!!

 

[jayse]

I have been labelled a foul mouthed drunked, pretty hard label to remove. <_<

 

[hayden]

"whats brewing?" label from about 15 years y/o off an old coca cola post mix keg.... was a nightmare even with orange oil

 

[newguy]

Drano crystals in a sink of hot water will take any label off in about 20 minutes. Wear gloves. Worst labels I've seen come from a local micro that you'd swear are welded onto the damn bottle. Paper label with a thin plastic membrane cover and I swear the same glue that NASA uses to stick the heat resistant tiles onto the space shuttles. But even they come right off with a drano soak. Prior to that chemical discovery, I couldn't even get them off with a SS scrubby pad.

 

[ollave]

Drano crystals in a sink of hot water will take any label off in about 20 minutes. Wear gloves. Worst labels I've seen come from a local micro that you'd swear are welded onto the damn bottle. Paper label with a thin plastic membrane cover and I swear the same glue that NASA uses to stick the heat resistant tiles onto the space shuttles. But even they come right off with a drano soak. Prior to that chemical discovery, I couldn't even get them off with a SS scrubby pad.

Oooh, that's vicious. I like ... and think I might arrange some ventilation, like open window(s) and range hood!

 

[marlow_coates]

The worst I have come across are Bluetongue, Knappstein, and RedOak.

I usually just soak in bleach water for a day, then use a blunt knife edge to scrape off (easy to do), then scourer to remove the glue lines (even easier)

Will need to try some of this Orange Power

 

[petesbrew]

Murray's and Schwartz.

I used to try, now I can't be bothered, I just chuck them.

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I stick my Murrays bottles in the sink after I do the dishes and they pretty much fall off.

 

[chappo1970]

Getting the labels off SJ's bottles of beer he sent me... it's like they aren't there? h34r:

 

[discoloop]

Worst: Pigs Fly Pale Ale
Best: Lowenbrau - 10 mins in a sink of hot water and they just peel off!

I love having all the labels removed. Makes the beer fell more like 'my craft brew' and less like some 'knocked together home brew'.

 

[Bizier]

Hates Coopers bottles?
They're like the best longies still in production in Australia!!!

I contest the words "still in production" because they went to cheap and dubious screwtops for a period, but obvioulsy the bomebrewers protested.

Yep... she think that they are ugly bottles for simpletons or something. I think that they are just a bullet-proof beer delivery vessel.

I think the best labels to remove are the Sam Smith ones... you look at them sideways and they fall off.

 

[bum]

For those who have a problem with glue remaining on the bottle, rubbing a cotton ball dipped in eucalyptus oil on it takes it straight off.

I have been labelled a foul mouthed drunked, pretty hard label to remove. <_<

Ha! I bet soaking only seems to make it worse too!

 

[Katherine]

eucalyptus oil

 

[bum]

Holy God in Heaven.

Barons.