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	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
  Bottle conditioning with brett? ("Doug Moyer")
  Removing Sierra Nevada labels ("Doug Moyer")


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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:32:17 -0500
From: "Doug Moyer" <shyzaboy at yahoo.com>
Subject: Bottle conditioning with brett?

I made a biere de garde recently (currently "garding"). I plan to keg most 
of it. I was wondering if I could bottle condition some of it using brett. 
Has anyone done so? Caveats?

Brew on!
Doug
Troutville, VA
Star City Brewers Guild: http://starcitybrewers.org



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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:24:55 -0500
From: "Doug Moyer" <shyzaboy at yahoo.com>
Subject: Removing Sierra Nevada labels

I've consumed a powerful amount of Sierra Nevada Celebration and Torpedo, 
leaving me with lots of bottles.

Being the generous and helpful chap that I (sometimes) am, I would like to 
remove the labels and give the bottles to some of the new brewers in our 
club. (I keg...)

I've never encountered such an evil glue as is used by SN. The labels come 
off with a bit of a soak, but they leave behind a thick layer of glue that 
takes a lot of elbow grease and hot cleaning solution to remove (and heaven 
forbid if you allow some of those glue clumps to cool off on the bottle - or 
worse, IN the bottle - that's a bottle for the recycling bin at that point).

I've been using Straight A. Soaking in Straight A solution causes the labels 
to float off but the glue residue still needs to be carefully scrubbed (and 
sometimes there is still a faint marking where the glue was - even after 
running the bottles through the dishwasher).

Any ideas?

(And, please, SN-specific. I know it is MUCH easier to get the labels off of 
MOST other brands...)

Brew on!
Doug
Troutville, VA
Star City Brewers Guild: http://starcitybrewers.org 



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