Membership questions? Log in issues? Email info@brewersassociation.org

Author Topic: Gilda corker with belgian corks?  (Read 2028 times)

narvin

  • Guest
Gilda corker with belgian corks?
« on: March 20, 2013, 05:41:12 pm »
I was going to fill a Jeroboam (3L champagne) with Geueze for NHC club night but the thing is too tall for my floor corker.  Has anyone used a handheld with Belgian or champagne bottles?  This one seems to be the best of the bunch, since it has an iris.  I figure it will be a pain to get it right, but I only need to do it once.


Offline snowtiger87

  • Brewer
  • ****
  • Posts: 443
Re: Gilda corker with belgian corks?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 10:58:01 am »
I would just compress the cork in your floor corker for about 5 minutes, then take it out quickly put it in the Jeroboam. Use a rubber pallet to tap it in if you need too. That has worked for me in the past.

Where did you get the cage and wire for it?
Brewing since 1989 - BJCP National Rank
Member of KROC and Foam on the Range

Fermenting: Double IPA
Conditioning: Saison du Potiron
On tap: Cider, Cream Ale, Bock, Rye Dunkel Doppelbock, Celebration Clone, Imperial Stout

narvin

  • Guest
Re: Gilda corker with belgian corks?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2013, 10:54:37 am »
That's a great idea, thanks.

I was just going to use a regular cage.  It was a bottle of corsendonk and I thought the one that came off of it was normal size.  It may have been missing the little cap at the top of the cage, but I can't remember.  Generally, any event where a 3L bottle is opened is going to obscure my memory  :D