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autoferret · 03-20-2006, 11:35 PM

I would love the recipe. But i'm leaning more toward a Saison.

So it looks like u will have to do champagne corks held w/ wire cages. Just need to figure out how to get them into the bottle now...

80/- · 03-21-2006, 04:21 PM

The french store the bottles at an angle, with the neck downawards and use a "bump and turn" method when aging champagne to ensure that the yeast sediment from the fermentation in the bottle works its way down to settle on the cork/cap.

They then freeze the champagne in the neck of the bottle using a glycol bath, remove the cork/cap and yeast plug and then re-cork.

Sounds like a lot of work but it may be worth it of you are willing to put the work in. The other option may be to use a similar method but to bump and turn in such a way that the yeast works its way down the bottle, whilst the cork is kept wet by the beer

HTH

80/-

m_f · 03-21-2006, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 80/-

The french store the bottles at an angle, with the neck downawards and use a "bump and turn" method when aging champagne to ensure that the yeast sediment from the fermentation in the bottle works its way down to settle on the cork/cap.

They then freeze the champagne in the neck of the bottle using a glycol bath, remove the cork/cap and yeast plug and then re-cork.

Sounds like a lot of work but it may be worth it of you are willing to put the work in. The other option may be to use a similar method but to bump and turn in such a way that the yeast works its way down the bottle, whilst the cork is kept wet by the beer

HTH

80/-

right on!
a link with a detail of the champenoise method applied to mead...
http://www.meadmadecomplicated.org/mead_making/recipes/sparkling.html

and it is a lot of work too!

cowain · 03-22-2006, 07:22 PM

any winemakers out there have an opinion on soaking corks or not prior to bottling? I think I saw a thread by Loungelizard where he said not to.

Lounge Lizard · 03-23-2006, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by cowain

any winemakers out there have an opinion on soaking corks or not prior to bottling? I think I saw a thread by Loungelizard where he said not to.

Tim Vandergriff of Winexpert fame says it is always the wrong thing to do. I don't know one way or the other, especially when it comes to synthetic corks like I plan on using. I don't see how a quick dip in One Step could hurt anything when using them. Here is the thread that you were referring to.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=6736

cowain · 03-23-2006, 04:49 PM

Thanks man. I think I'll probably give them a quick dip in some boiled and then chilled water or something like that.