I'd be intending to bottle my Belgian beers, I have a few bottles collected and want to go the trad route with corks and a cap on top of them, seems easier than cages.
Does anyone have the requisite capper? I know Brian is selling one at the moment which has an adaptor to get it to the correct size, but at the moment I don't plan on needing it too often.
Quote from: Tube on April 08, 2014, 10:52:35 AM
Buy the 28mm bell and you can use my bench capper.
Kewl.
Any idea if the corks use standard corks and corkers? I think it's just the flair at the neck that's different.
QuoteAny idea if the corks use standard corks and corkers?
The (Belgium) beer bottle uses a different seized cork compared to the Wine or Champagne. The beer bottle cork is wider (44x25,5mm) than the wine bottle cork (38x24 mm) but yet smaller that a Champagne cork (48x30.5)
Same goes for the lid in the cages, 38 x 26.5 mm for the beer cork, 38 x 30 mm for the Champagne cork.
Feck... That's a royal pain. I've delabeled some of the bottles I had. Are there any distinguishing marks that I can read on the bottles that classify them?
Quote from: Tube on April 08, 2014, 01:43:12 PM
Use a caliper to measure?
I can probably do this this evening if I can find the calipers.
I've a mix of beer, wine and gueuze bottles and not all are easily identifiable without labels.
I presume the gueuze bottles are same a champagne corks since they're green glass. Hopefully, Eoin can confirm that. It would at least mean just getting a mix of 2 cork types.
Quote from: Tube on April 08, 2014, 05:01:40 PM
I've very accurate digital calipers.
So do I, Lidl did them a while back.
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Ok, I have a selection of bottles from different sources.
But essentially it's two types champagne and lambic.
The champagne bottle is 29mm external diameter and 17.2 internal.
The lambic is 29mm external and 18mm internal.
Measured over a sample of two bottles of each type and rounded.
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I just did a little testing with wine corks and the corker. Bearing in mind it's a crappy corker and I'd need to practice a bit more on it. With two types of cork, first Cork is standard wine bottle, the second is tapered.
It appears to work very well in any case.
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That's good news. Looking like cork and cap so.
I can spare a few beer corks for you to compare/ try out if you like. No bother.
Let me know and I'll stick them in the post.
Just thinking... They might not fit in a conventional corker.
I have a hand corker for putting the corks in.
I see Homebrew West is putting in an order with Brouwland. They stock the beer corks you were looking for.