SCREW CAPS

[NorthernWinos]

Without any intensionwe have been accumulating some wine bottles with screw tops....seems that more companies must be going to them so they are showing up in our supply line.
I am making some liquor kits and thought a screw top bottle might work for those. Awhile back I bought some 28mm metal and some plastic screw tops...they fit the 187mil bottles that I have acquired but do not fit the 750mil bottles....


Has anyone else run into this problem of the 28mm lids not fitting their screw top bottles?

 

[grapeman]

I gave up trying to find screw caps for the bottles. I just use 375 ml bottles with #8 cork. They work just fine for the liquors. Since they are low alcohol(18-20%ABV) you can use them up before they go bad just popping the cork back in.

 

[NorthernWinos]

I got some 'tasting corks' the ones with a big tops on them...I might use those for my liqours....


Some of these screw top bottles camewith the old caps on them...might just have to re-use some of those.


Ho..hummm...with all these companies starting to use screw caps the supply companiesare going to have to help us home-winemakers out.


Going to be saving my cork type bottles for myself and any 'questionable' people that receive 'wine-gifts' will be getting screw tops.


Pulling a cork is just the 'right' way...very romantic to hear that pop.

 

[jobe05]

I have a case of 375ML screw tops that someone gave me a while back. I use them for sample bottles when I make a kit so I can sample a small bottle during the aging process. These I don't mind because I drink them first so the wine isn't in them very long.

When I pick bottles up at the winery that I go to, once in a while I will get a screw top bottle in my cases of bottles, but no one ever knows where it came from.

I'm gonna bottle my brandy in 187ML bottles and was going to use #8 Corks, but I like the idea of the tasting corks, might try a couple of those.

 

[Waldo]

I havent has much luck with the tasting corks. I have had several that just broke off from the cork rightat the cap. Is there a trick to using them that I am unaware of. Like maybe mositening them first?

 

[grapeman]

I havent has much luck with the tasting corks. I have had several that just broke off from the cork rightat the cap. Is there a trick to using them that I am unaware of. Like maybe mositening them first?

I think it depends on the manufacturer and when bought. I have a bag of 10 I got three years ago and they are lasting forever without incident. I even twisted one so hard getting it out that I broke a little piece of the plastic top off- and the cork stayed in one piece. I then got 2 more bags of 5 each and they are just what you are talking about- the cork crumbles when you try to open them. I gave up on them and don't use them. They are at best a one use cork, so what's the point with them? I would love to get more of the good ones,

 

[NorthernWinos]

I was just trying a new tasting cork in a bottle yesterday and it broke off. I save the synthetic plastic type corks from my honey's Kobel Brandy and those last forever, think you can buy those too.








Sometimes I use those magnum 350mil bottles for fermenting extra wine from a batch, when I store those big bottlesI put one of those tasting corks in them with some K-meta.


Some of the cork type tasting corks have been reused many times without incedent...maybe the one I used yesterday was just old in the open bag.Edited by: Northern Winos