WANTED: Magnum Bottles Wine or Champers

[Kevnlis]

If you have any magnum bottles you don't want I would be more than happy to throw a few bucks your way to take them.

[Chris]

Good luck on that one Kevnlis, they are hard to find.

[Kevnlis]

I can find them full of wine/champers all over the place, but empty, thats a bit tough, still it doesn't hurt to try!

[KEG]

are you talking exclusively about champagne bottles, or also non-sparkling wines?

[Kevnlis]

are you talking exclusively about champagne bottles, or also non-sparkling wines?

Non sparkling wines would be great! Any corked bottle, not screw top please!

[KEG]

ah sorry.. you're after corked bottles.

was thinking otherwise... cheap cooking port and sherry comes in nice big glass flagons - but they're screw-top.

although come to think of it... no reason you couldn't cork them if you had the right size corks.

[warra48]

I'd be somewhat wary of non-sparkling wine bottles, as they are not made to withstand pressure like champagne of sparkling bottles or magnums are.
Champagne bottles and magnums can be crownsealed using champagne crown seals with the appropriate cap on your capper.

[Kevnlis]

I'd be somewhat wary of non-sparkling wine bottles, as they are not made to withstand pressure like champagne of sparkling bottles or magnums are.
Champagne bottles and magnums can be crownsealed using champagne crown seals with the appropriate cap on your capper.

I will not be putting corks in the bottles but the seals do not fit screw top bottles. Magnum 3L 1.5L and half magnum bottles all work great sparkling or non sparkling the bottles work well either way, no problems with the low pressure of beer, not in my experience anyway.

The champers bottles are of course easier to do, but it can be done with the cork closure type bottles as well!

[carol]

How do you seal wine bottles that take corks. They seem to have straight sides at the lip unlike champagne bottles that have a rim.
carol

[Kevnlis]

With a swing top...

[NTRabbit]

How do you seal wine bottles that take corks. They seem to have straight sides at the lip unlike champagne bottles that have a rim.
carol

With a bag of corks and a twin lever corker, easily bought from the same Homebrew Store that can sell you a bag of crown seals and a twin lever capper. Well, from any HBS that sells home wine making gear as well, as my local Brewcraft happens to do.

[Kevnlis]

Yeah... but swing tops are easier...

They also hold carbonation

[carol]

sorry to be a bother but I went and had a look at my swingtop Grolsch bottles (only 3 :-)) and they have holes drilled in them for the metal "thingy".
How does this work for wine bottles? Do you have to drill holes? Can you buy "swingtop gadgets" that don't need holes?

[Kevnlis]

Yeah you can get straps to replace the holes, the swingtops snap into them.