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.
warra48 wrote: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 wrote: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.
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?
