Bilbo, just go to your local bottle redemption center, they usually are
very helpfull, I bring a bottle of wine everytime I go so I get
whatever I ask for...lol
It took them 1 1/2 days to get all those bottles for me.
If you want brown beer bottles the John Adams ones are good and the
labels come off easy but if green are OK the Moosehead bottles are the
best, the labels fall off after being in the water for a little while,
I ordered 10 more cases of them, I think I will use them for Island
Mist kits as wine coolers for next summer, cheap way to bottle those!
Champane bottles were very easy to clean! And you can cap a champane bottle with a beer cap.
Wine bottles are the hardest to clean, I am fussy now and want them
perfectly clean, no glue left, after I get the label off I use GOO-GONE
(get it at Home Depot) to remove the glue, but then you must use soap
to get the Goo-Gone off as it is a solvent.
Here's what I do now, wash the bottles when I get them home with the
Brass bottle washer using hot water, any with mold go in the return
box, no sense messing with them, next into the bathtup with a dash of
bleach and covered with hot water, soak for an hour, scrape the labels
off and use Goo-Gone if needed, take back to the kitchen and wash with
bottle washer again, if anything is left inside it will come out now
due to the soaking, plus a good final inspection now to be sure they
are perfectly clean inside and out.
