Corking and Capping method???

I'm preparing to bottle a barley wine. I plan on laying it down for a while and was toying with the idea of storing in champagne bottles and corks. I was turned off by this idea once I saw the price of the necessary equipment for corking champagne bottles ($150 floor model!) While looking through these bottling equipment sites I came across a refference to a method of "corking and capping beer" it said "typically used for long term ales such a s barley wine" I am very interested in alternative bottling methods and am curious if anyone out there has any knowledge of this method of "corking and Capping" or other corking methods that don't require $150 equipment. by the way the capper I use is a red barron 2 lever style.

a double lever hand corker is all you should need - at least for regular wine bottles.
they are only 16.00 in canada.
check the site you got your red baron capper from - under wine corkers
for champagne bottles you could buy the plastic corks and wire cages and i don't think you need a corker for them

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Most HBS will rent out a floor corker. Make sure you get the right size corks for the bottle. American champage bottles are different then the belgium beer bottles.

Thanks for the suggestion Pimp Juice. My LHBS does indeed rent out their corker.