rwmarler
Active Member
1st off, my appologies for picture quality. My DC is about as old as some of my bottles.
This is the only earthware bottle I've found and as you can see it needs a little elbow grease. The before and after was from several hours of scrubbing the label area until legible using a child's toothbrush (soft) and a very mild acid wash. My fear is my own unexperience with cleaning and restoring earthware. It's covered with rust-like calcium (either deposited and/or effulicient). Some spots are really thick and I have urges to pick at them [>:] if you look at the R in BEER you'll see a white spot where I picked off a deposit just barely missing the foot in the R. I don't know anything about earthware labeling which would help in determining a cleaning method. Any further cleaning and restoring will only be done from the advice from my fellow ABN members.
Research...Research...Research...Eureka!
HOME BREWED GINGER BEER, LATTER & CO., SEATTLE WASH., CONTENTS 10 OZ.
This is the only earthware bottle I've found and as you can see it needs a little elbow grease. The before and after was from several hours of scrubbing the label area until legible using a child's toothbrush (soft) and a very mild acid wash. My fear is my own unexperience with cleaning and restoring earthware. It's covered with rust-like calcium (either deposited and/or effulicient). Some spots are really thick and I have urges to pick at them [>:] if you look at the R in BEER you'll see a white spot where I picked off a deposit just barely missing the foot in the R. I don't know anything about earthware labeling which would help in determining a cleaning method. Any further cleaning and restoring will only be done from the advice from my fellow ABN members.
Research...Research...Research...Eureka!
HOME BREWED GINGER BEER, LATTER & CO., SEATTLE WASH., CONTENTS 10 OZ.