noodledancer77
Well-Known Member
I brewed a robust porter the week before Thanksgiving. If i remember right, the initial gravity was around 1.070, a bit bigger than beers I have previously made. For giggles we decided to bottle a few of them in belgian bottles and 750's sealed with a wine cork and dipped in sealing wax. We bottled in mid-december about the week of the 13th. i have two observations.
1. this bigger beer took longer to bottle condition than i anticipated. my cousin thought it would be done in a week...my reading on this forum convinced me otherwise. We them after two weeks and a month and they were not done at either time.
2. i just noticed that the wax on top of one of the 750's had cracked two days ago, and today the cork has pushed out of the bottle about a quarter inch.
At this point, i'm treating this thing as a deadly weapon and it is under quarantine until i get around to drinking it on Friday. In the mean time, I'm gonna try making a makeshift cage out of bailing wire.
Just wanted to share my experiences with folks thinking of using wine corks in bottles for beer. In the future I'll invest in a floor corker and some belgian corks with cages. Bottoms up!
1. this bigger beer took longer to bottle condition than i anticipated. my cousin thought it would be done in a week...my reading on this forum convinced me otherwise. We them after two weeks and a month and they were not done at either time.
2. i just noticed that the wax on top of one of the 750's had cracked two days ago, and today the cork has pushed out of the bottle about a quarter inch.
At this point, i'm treating this thing as a deadly weapon and it is under quarantine until i get around to drinking it on Friday. In the mean time, I'm gonna try making a makeshift cage out of bailing wire.
Just wanted to share my experiences with folks thinking of using wine corks in bottles for beer. In the future I'll invest in a floor corker and some belgian corks with cages. Bottoms up!