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I'm always confused as to why people just don't use varsol or lighter fluid for non-water-soluble glue (which most people have around the house to remove price tags anyway). The glue comes off, and the varsol washes off completely.

Then again, I always wash my bottles at least twice; once to remove the label, and once more to remove any traces of gum.

I've never had a problem with wine, so I'm not sure why it would be a problem with mead.

By the way: if you make your own labels, the Avery white stick-on labels are easy to remove - the glue is water-soluble.
 
Charlene said:
I'm always confused as to why people just don't use varsol or lighter fluid for non-water-soluble glue (which most people have around the house to remove price tags anyway). The glue comes off, and the varsol washes off completely.
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Ummm, it's flammable?

Steve
 
Now that's an interesting concept :D

I have a friend with a home-made flame thrower, it's quite effective... not sure how the bottles would survive though ;D

Steve
 
I haven't found any bottles yet that I've had a problem with. I normally soak them for a week in water and the labels normally fall off after that.

With the flamethrower, the glass might crack due to temperature shock. I wouldn't want to try a sparkling mead in them. Ypu might also then have cabonised glue stuck to the glass.
 
Tyred said:
With the flamethrower, the glass might crack due to temperature shock. I wouldn't want to try a sparkling mead in them. Ypu might also then have cabonised glue stuck to the glass.
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It was a joke! ;) It was a reference to flammable material used to remove bottle glue. Have you ever tried melting a bottle in a campfire? It works, but when they cool down they crack...

Steve
 
Just a thought but perhaps we could say what bottles we get, that have a tasty content, and an easy to remove label.

I use Crown Lager bottles for beer, along with any others I can get, I find beer bottles seem to have labels stuck on good and fast. At least Crown and Stella artois. Crown have a good brown bottle apposed to the green Stella artois.

I have some wine bottles but I cant recall the brands. I found wine bottles labels easy to remove compared the beer ones. :-\

Mu.
 
Has anyone tried Goo Gone? I haven't used it to take labels off of bottles, but I know that it'll take tar out of carpet. ;)
 
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