fishguy_40
Member
- Joined
- Apr 28, 2008
- Messages
- 22
- Reaction score
- 0
if i were to bottle in standard wine bottles, will the corks hold up to the carbonation?
I carbonated a bunch of mine in 22oz bombers. If you kinda squint, they're almost a wine bottle.
Nope!
NEVER try and carbonate in a wine bottle.
Best case...you blow corks all over the cellar....worst case, a bottle blows up while you are opening it, severs an artery in your neck, and your wife gets to watch you bleed to death on the kitchen floor.
Use beer bottles to carbonate in.
does the apfelwein automatically come out fizzy? Or is that something added later? I'm reading the apfelwein thread, but it is enough reading for days.....
It will have a bit of CO2 in it when you rack it, but I wouldn't call it "fizzy" by any measure. It's definitely flat, just a few bubbles here and there.
To get any real carbonation you'll have to bottle it with sugar and let it sit.
so, if I sweetened it with sugar after it's done fermenting, then it will get some fizz, interesting..... I'm assuming because it gets the yeast going again? It won't taste yeasty doing it that way will it? I am pretty sure I don't want it completely dry, so will definitely sweeten it after I ferment one way or another.......
Enter your email address to join: