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Carbonateing in a normal wine bottle?

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So I'd like to carbonate some of my mead in the bottle. I've seen plenty of guides saying to use champagne bottles, but I get my bottles from friends and such and they are normal wine bottles. Does anyone know a good way to do carbonating with normal bottles? I'm not looking for a huge amount of carbonation, just a little fizz. Also I'm assuming I won't be able to carbonate the mead if I have already added potassium sorbet and the yeast is all gone. Is this a correct assumption?
 
Once you sorbate and sulfate you'll need a keg if you want to force carbonate. You can use beer bottles and crown caps if you haven't stabilized already.
 
Carbonating in a normal wine bottle can be done. Just make sure you have plenty of eye patches on hand for the resulting blindness from shrapnel. They WILL explode.
 
Don't use regular wine bottles if you plan to carbonate they can blow up. I always use champagne bottles and use the plastic stoppers and wire them in.
 
Oh they work just fine. I was the same when I started. Slowly I changed over. I still have some beer bottles for sending samples. I will also start using them to store away samples for aging.


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I've come at this from starting to make mead for the first time ~2 years ago, fermenting anything alcoholic truth be told, then I found yet another fascinating fermenting hobby in the last couple months, beer. I have a lot of wine bottles, but I'm using beer bottles to hold most of my mead, 12 oz bottles of mead are far more drinkable than a 750ml one to me! But then I'm a lightweight nowadays... So gifts will go into the 750ml, my supply, samples, etc, are 12oz beer bottles...
 
HIC. 12oz doesn't even get to the halfway point in DAS HORN. LOL.

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