Printing (paint) labels directly on the bottle

Northern Brewer General
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I have a number of 22 oz. bottles that I would like to relabel, but the labeling was printed (painted?) directly onto the bottle. I am going to reuse these regardless, but figured a clean bottle to relabel would look a little sharper.

Any suggestions on how to remove this?

2

Rouge bottles?

Not going to be able to remove the paint.

Maybe sand blast them?

3

Sandblasting would weaken the bottles and make bottle bombs at regular pressure, if your really set to reuse the bottles the best way will be to use a razor blade window scraper to clean the bottles. The blades will not damage the glass but it will be a slow processed. Cheers

4

oven cleaner,

leaving starsan overnight works on some paint

5

You can try undiluted starsan on the paint, that has worked for me before, as well as undiluted CLR overnight

6

Sounds like way to much work to me. I have a few 22’s with a little mold in them. The recycle tub is looking attractive rather than 10 seconds of a scrub brush.

Find a brewery that puts paper labels on their 22’s and buy them to drink or ask your local beer bar to save some.

7

Trader Joe’s recently had some bombers of relatively tasty beer with labels that came off painlessly. I need to make a point of picking up some more of those…

8

I have a stash of those, and I painted over the whole bottle like “Delirium” bottles.

9

Nice idea!!
I took a safety razor, holding the razor on an angel, I scrapped off everything I wanted to lose.

tom

10

Overnight soak in either star-san or PBW may do the trick. I had some misc bottles with the paint on labels, and after a soak, it wiped right off with a rag.

11

Yes I have a good amount of Rogue bottles. I will give the razor blade a shot. I tried PBW and that took some time before some of the paint even began to come off.

Thanks all. :cheers:

12

Sounds nasty, but you’re gonna’ clean them anyhow…Wrap a paper towel around them, and dampen it with some fresh brake fluid.

I’ve screwed up many a paint job with spilled brake fluid! :shock:

13

+1 for the brake fluid. Works a champ and it’s cheap… but messy. Doesn’t quite wipe away in my experience but scrapes away Rogue paint with a fingernail.

14

I have heard that CLR works well… Been meaning to try it on a few painted bottles i got laying around…Tank