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I am looking to bottle a batch of delicious chocolate stout in champagne bottles. A few bottles the mouth opening is small enough to use a standard cap but wondering how to properly close off the others. Should I cork them with a regular wine cork and then use wax pellets to seal in the co2? Or would iit work if I just used tasting corks like the ones on a scotch bottle?
Advice please
 
For the larger ones from europe you can get a new capping bell that just swaps out with the one you have and some 29 mm caps. Total cost about 7 bucks. If you want to use something other than caps you'll need both corks and cages. The belgian breweries use the belgian corks with cages for both "belgian" and champagne bottles. This will require a corker and you can find those instructions by searching the forum or youtube. If you don't want to use a corker then the plastic champagne stoppers are your best bet. I've seen some folks say that you can do this with a #9 wine cork, but I've never tried. The #9 is a few mm thinner than the belgian corks and may not seal off the pressure you need. Whatever way you go you'll either need to use a cage, or cap on top the way cantillon does but this would then still require a 29 mm capper. Corks alone would get pushed out of the bottle once carbed.
 
I am thinking the site needs a sticky thread for champagne bottles. It seems to be a frequent enough question that it would warrant an "everything you need to know here" thread.
 

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