I've been scrubbing commercial beer bottles for competition entries. The hot PBW soak does wonders on paper labels, but plastic ones are a different story. Some peel off easily enough, but the glue left behind is stubborn.
I had one 12oz bottle that I wanted to soak in rubbing alcohol, but couldn't find a container that was the right size. Everything is either too big or too small. Then I found a drinking water bottle in the recycle bin. A quick hack with a paring knife turned it into a bottle bath.
 |
| Water bottle turned bottle bath |
The plastic bottle is just a bit wider, so I only needed a few ounces of alcohol to submerge the sticky part. It did what I needed it to, and it did it pretty well. I couldn't get all of the glue off, but it was clean enough. Then after all of this, I see the bottle has a defect in the glass. See the light oval shape in the middle, just above the reflection of my smartphone? That's a void in the glass. This one went right into the recycle bin.
 |
| All that cleaning, only to find a defect. |
Moral of the story: Check your bottles for defects before you waste a lot of time cleaning and sanitizing.
No comments:
Post a Comment