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How to remove Corona bottle printing (screen printed label)

I just wanted to let you know, in case anyone else could find this useful. Hydrochloric acid alone worked perfectly, the bottle was put into it for less than 20 minutes, and after that it was rinsed ...
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How to remove Corona bottle printing (screen printed label)

Soak in StarSan. Mix starsan as you would normally. Submerge bottles and soak for a day or so. Use a stainless steel scrubber (ball of stainless steel for cleaning pots/pans) to scrub off the paint. ...
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Moving bottles with sediment

Here is a neat article about the Beer clarification process: Clarification of Beer: Advanced Brewing . The article is about beer, but they derive a rough formula estimating it will take about 88 ...
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Moving bottles with sediment

Depends on how well settled the sediment is to begin with. The key is to keep the bottles upright so that the surface of the liquid remains in the confined space in the neck. Assuming normal flat ...
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Can I reuse a bottle that had a sour lactobacillus beer in it?

Bacteria like to hang out in soft surfaces like rubber and plastic, which for us usually includes things like buckets, hoses, and o-rings. Also any metal fittings for your valves, etc. Glass bottles ...
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Lager got warmed when doing secondary fermentation

You should be fine. The results are really to lager strain dependent. That said, I have made several lagers that were great and ready to drink without a true lager phase. (Not to say they didn't ...
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Bleed pressure from swing-top bottle?

During secondary fermentation (bottling stage, aka 2F) of kombucha brewing, there is a correlation between sugar as an input and carbonation as an output. If you increase the sugar in the 2F ...
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Flavoring Cider at bottling

The advice given to me by a professional cider brewer was to put the fruit flavouring in at the last possible moment i.e. At bottling. Use natural fruit pressed and filtered. I have put a small amount ...
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Flavoring Cider at bottling

Are you making still cider or sparkling cider? If you are making sparkling cider than your plan should work since the amount of sugar is negligible. If you are making still cider, you might get a ...
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White film at top of bottle

Looks like pellicle from some organism. Probably a wild yeast or a souring bacteria. It shouldn't be harmful, but can sure ruin a beer. You got a lot of headspace there and oxygen for things to ...
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I put my bottles to ferment for carbonation in a cold place - is the yeast dead?

IMHO the yeast is not dead but might be dormant. As has been asked in the comments above - there is no mention of priming sugar added to the brew before (or while) bottling. If the fermentation went ...
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How to remove Corona bottle printing (screen printed label)

I used 5 tablespoons one step cleaner and instead of water I used white vinegar and put about 3 tablespoons of powdered citric acid for good measure. I did add water to top up level to cover over the ...
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Bottle labeler suggestions

I can suggest a small Zebra printer. There are many models that can print on removable labels of 1" up to 4" wide. It usually comes with a software that allows you to design a label and print as ...
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Bottle labeler suggestions

For fancy reusable labels you could try Grogtags. With those you design it on their website then they print and ship to you. Not a label maker, but its the only thing I could think of that's like ...
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Sterilizing flip-top bottles in the oven, sealing for later use

I think it's worth mentioning that as homebrewers, we really need to be think about living in the "sanitization" realm rather than the "sterilization" realm. We have households, ...
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Counter-pressure bottle filler and exposure to oxygen

My filler is a bit different, but it's the same principle. What I usually do is continue filling while I'm pulling out the tube to keep the foam at the top of the neck. I have my bottle sitting in a ...
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What possible reasons cause a (pale) beer to fail to carbonate in the bottle

Possible causes of uncarbonated beer after bottle conditioning: Insufficient priming sugar in the bottle, or no carbonation drop in the bottle. (I've made that mistake myself occasionally, thinking ...
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Moving bottles with sediment

I make bottle conditioned beers all the time and have never (touch wood) had a problem with them clouding up during transportation. Unless you are hauling the over dirt tracks in the back of a truck ...
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Bleed pressure from swing-top bottle?

What you're describing is a "gusher infection", wild yeast that can consume normally unfermentable sugars like dextrins. Usually leaves a beverage with little body and other issues. In beer ...
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Lager got warmed when doing secondary fermentation

Generally speaking, temperature-related off-flavors in beer get produced in the first three or four days of fermentation. It is fairly common for homebrewers to ramp up the temperatures of lagers to ...
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