I'm planning on making a Holiday Spice Ale for parties around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. I want to bottle it in wine or champagne bottles with a cork for presentation purposes. Before I do so, and potentially ruin a batch of beer, can it be done? A few questions I have regarding the matter...
1. Are wine or champagne bottles strong enough to handle carbonation? Or will I be making 'bottle bombs'?
2. Are there any priming issues I need to adjust before bottling since I'm using non-beer bottles?
3. Will using a cork be ok for beer?
4. How long will it take to bottle condition in wine/champagne bottles?
I'm pretty sure that Dogfish Head Brewery has a beer that they bottle in champagne bottles, but I've never seen it or had it, so I'm unsure if it's constructed differently or if there's mitigating factors during the bottling process that they do in order to safely bottle it.
Thanks
1. Are wine or champagne bottles strong enough to handle carbonation? Or will I be making 'bottle bombs'?
2. Are there any priming issues I need to adjust before bottling since I'm using non-beer bottles?
3. Will using a cork be ok for beer?
4. How long will it take to bottle condition in wine/champagne bottles?
I'm pretty sure that Dogfish Head Brewery has a beer that they bottle in champagne bottles, but I've never seen it or had it, so I'm unsure if it's constructed differently or if there's mitigating factors during the bottling process that they do in order to safely bottle it.
Thanks