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bottler - I wish I could tell you but I washed/scraped/wirewooled/etc all the labels off the bottles. The best I can do is try to describe the shape of the bottle mouth. At the mouth of all bottles there is a lip that the cap attaches to. Underneath that lip bottles can flare out or have...

That's just showing off... :D

rpt - I might invest in a bench capper myself. Especially since I've noticed that some types of bottles aren't the right shape for a regular capping tool. I'm thankful I had enough bottles to sort out all the ones that weren't able to seal well but I think it would have been better solved with...

RokDok, You wouldn't happen to know what temperature and for how long those bottles are baked would you? Can't be too hot or the plastic would melt and that would be bad for the oven...

Loetz, Maybe British breweries need to follow the example of Austrian ones when it comes to labelling? Not all but many labels from American craft beer bottles simply need soaking in hot water to remove them. How I think wistfully of all the bottles I have stored away in Alaska; clean and...

Ceejay - Great idea! Particularly if giving beer as gifts. I was thinking up labels for the beer I brewed and stopped myself because I'd just have to remove the labels later. This solves the problem! Thanks for sharing! :D

Well, the bottling session is now behind me and took a couple of hours because some of the bottles wouldn't work with a capping tool which meant sorting through the rest of the bottles to find ones that would work, sanitising them, etc. Had the usual fun of trying to siphon without getting my...

I'll be siphoning out of the fermenter and into a bottling bucket with priming sugar (in this case dme since that's what I've got). I have a little bottler filler on the bucket so that should make things go a little more smoothly. As for looking at bottling as just part of the process and...

Thanks, Colin! It's nice to know I'm not the only one who hates bottling! I think I'd rather have dental work with no pain medication... Bottling commences tomorrow...hopefully, I'll be able to enlist some help...

There are many reasons why I find bottling abhorrent but the one that really stands out has to do with getting rid of the labels. Spending several hours cleaning 52 bottles was just the tiniest bit excessive. My question is this: How does one get label glue off beer bottles? Particularly the...

Steep at 70 degrees? After I posted the message I realised that I wasn't actually mashing since the grains in question don't produce much that is fermentable. But thanks for being faster with a reply than my brain was!

I'm going to be brewing an extract ruby mild tomorrow which includes some chocolate and cara-munich type III grain. It's been way too long since I brewed extracts so I don't remember exactly how long to mash these small amounts of grain for the brew. I went through the forum's step-by-step aid...

Hello all! I've joined the forum because I'm about to brew my first batch of beer...in a couple of years. I've been brewing since 2000 and love my all grain equipment and cornie kegs. Trouble is, all of that is in Alaska and I'm in Dorset. What I have to hand are very large stainless steel pots...