Hey gang,

Bottling is this weekend. An extra strong English Bitter (we added an extra Kg of dextrose and

maltodextrin to the 500g of dry malt extract). Decided to just clean our empties and use them. The plan is to soak the labels off in a tub and then a secondary soaking with the sterilizing solution.

Anyone use a different method that seems to work?

Have been using the flip-top bottles for bottling homebrew, which is working fine. But man! Wild Rose must use JB Industro-Weld to put their labels on. A good long soak in a hot PBW solution will take the labels off, but the glue remains. (And since I have pets, that means - eventually - fuzzy bottles!)

if you end up with residule glue after the soak and clean I have found that goop off works real well. Smells awful and gives you a headache but works very well. It is some sort of solvent maybe acetone base.

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