Has anyone used a belgian (~25 mm) cork in a 750 mL/29 mm cap size champagne bottle?
Using the ferrari corker and a lot of F-words I've bottle champagne bottles w/ champagne corks just fine. The problem is that the champagne corks are hard to come by, and cost about $ 0.45/cork, which adds up. I have a source for belgian corks that's much cheaper @ around $ 0.16/cork, but my LHBS doesn't carry belgian bottles, at its expensive to ship glass.
So the cheapest thing would be to use belgian corks with champagne bottles, but I'm worried the smaller cork size will leave me with a bunch of flat ciders and belgian beers.
Any thoughts?
Using the ferrari corker and a lot of F-words I've bottle champagne bottles w/ champagne corks just fine. The problem is that the champagne corks are hard to come by, and cost about $ 0.45/cork, which adds up. I have a source for belgian corks that's much cheaper @ around $ 0.16/cork, but my LHBS doesn't carry belgian bottles, at its expensive to ship glass.
So the cheapest thing would be to use belgian corks with champagne bottles, but I'm worried the smaller cork size will leave me with a bunch of flat ciders and belgian beers.
Any thoughts?