Wine bottles and corks for hard Cider?

[Dave_E]

Hi All,

Does anyone bottle and cork their hard cider? I did get some flip top bottles but frankly don’t have anywhere to store 6 - 12 bottles of cider upright. But I do have plenty of wine bottle rack space.

Dave

 

[Chalkyt]

No reason not to store the flip tops sideways (except that any settled sediment will mix when you open them... it doesn't change the flavour, just makes a slightly cloudy appearance and generally this happens anyway if you drain the bottle).

The only issue with flip-tops is that if you have left residual sugar that continues fermenting, the flip tops can leak at over 80psi but that is around 5 volumes of carbonation and very fizzy so corks would blow out of wine bottles unless the bottles have stelvin (screw on) caps.