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Look at my bottle score!
Look at my bottle score!
One of my patients just gave me 100 of his old beer bottles that he used for home brewing.
these are the sweetest stubbies i've ever seen!
these are the sweetest stubbies i've ever seen!
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Nice...but are they clean?
I was in a Value Village last year and say a 12 of the original 70's stubbies in the little carboard suitcase, should have picked it up, but I think the thrill would have died down cleaning out 30 year old gunk in the bottles.
I was in a Value Village last year and say a 12 of the original 70's stubbies in the little carboard suitcase, should have picked it up, but I think the thrill would have died down cleaning out 30 year old gunk in the bottles.
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"God don't want me yet, man, I got more feet to taste."
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some still had his homebrew in them.phirleh wrote:Nice...but are they clean?
I was in a Value Village last year and say a 12 of the original 70's stubbies in the little carboard suitcase, should have picked it up, but I think the thrill would have died down cleaning out 30 year old gunk in the bottles.
i looked at a few. no yeasties or gunk - just some dust.
i want to sanitize them in the dishwasher, but they may lose the label, so i may be stuck with a slow-process individual internal soak and scrub.
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easiest way to remove labels is just to soak them in hot water - no chemicals, no nothing. leave 'em overnight. i've got a hard plastic scraper and a scotchbrite pad for any stubborn ones. european labels in particular fall right off within minutes. it'll also soften up any gunk that may be inside. my usual routine is to soak then rinse inside and out with a bottle washer. i've got a spare rubbermaid bin that holds approx 2 cases of bottles.
i've done chemicals and other stuff, but found no noticeable improvement in their ability to remove labels and far more work in rinsing the chemicals back out/off after.
i've done chemicals and other stuff, but found no noticeable improvement in their ability to remove labels and far more work in rinsing the chemicals back out/off after.
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used 3 of the bottles to rack a brew.
panicked when i was crimping the cap on.
the neck is thinner than current bottles, so initially, the caps wouldn't stay on.
you have to really crimp that sucker down all the way to secure the cap.
and washing was fun - one bottle had a nice colony in the bottom. the rest were fine. just dusty
panicked when i was crimping the cap on.
the neck is thinner than current bottles, so initially, the caps wouldn't stay on.
you have to really crimp that sucker down all the way to secure the cap.
and washing was fun - one bottle had a nice colony in the bottom. the rest were fine. just dusty
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Had I known I was going to start homebrewing, I would have kept all those scotch-irish bottles...atomeyes wrote:used 3 of the bottles to rack a brew.
panicked when i was crimping the cap on.
the neck is thinner than current bottles, so initially, the caps wouldn't stay on.
you have to really crimp that sucker down all the way to secure the cap.
and washing was fun - one bottle had a nice colony in the bottom. the rest were fine. just dusty
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Before I started brewing, I kept 7 cases of the old Grand River bottles plus a few Scotch Irish stubbies...I love those bottles.JeffPorter wrote:
Had I known I was going to start homebrewing, I would have kept all those scotch-irish bottles...
Malam cerevisiam facieus in cathedram stercoris
"God don't want me yet, man, I got more feet to taste."
photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/phirleh/se ... 039468171/
"God don't want me yet, man, I got more feet to taste."
photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/phirleh/se ... 039468171/
LOL... I'm down to about 6 cases of GR bottles. I seem to give too many of those away. I still have tons of stubbies & German .5L bottles. Those are my go-to (actually a couple cases of St. Peter's when I'm doing British brews a well).phirleh wrote:Before I started brewing, I kept 7 cases of the old Grand River bottles plus a few Scotch Irish stubbies...I love those bottles.JeffPorter wrote:
Had I known I was going to start homebrewing, I would have kept all those scotch-irish bottles...
Once the labels are off, bottling isn't bad. After cleaning (and sometimes sanitizing with chemical), I run them through the dish washer (no soap) using the sterilization cycle... then fill them directly from there.
Maybe I'm a weirdo, but bottling completes the 'job' and still gives me a strange sense of satisfaction.
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Derek wrote:LOL... I'm down to about 6 cases of GR bottles. I seem to give too many of those away. I still have tons of stubbies & German .5L bottles. Those are my go-to (actually a couple cases of St. Peter's when I'm doing British brews a well).phirleh wrote:Before I started brewing, I kept 7 cases of the old Grand River bottles plus a few Scotch Irish stubbies...I love those bottles.JeffPorter wrote:
Had I known I was going to start homebrewing, I would have kept all those scotch-irish bottles...
Once the labels are off, bottling isn't bad. After cleaning (and sometimes sanitizing with chemical), I run them through the dish washer (no soap) using the sterilization cycle... then fill them directly from there.
I kind of aggree...I feel pretty good about bottling...it feels like a real "hands on" thing to do, and my "non-beery" friends and relatives are kind of blown away that I can put cap on a bottle.
Now, if I can get my beer to taste good...*
*(I'm going to scale it back next with a festa brew deal...I really need to get the basics down...)
Maybe I'm a weirdo, but bottling completes the 'job' and still gives me a strange sense of satisfaction.
"What can you say about Pabst Blue Ribbon that Dennis Hopper hasn’t screamed in the middle of an ether binge?" - Jordan St. John
The Joys of Bottling:
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