Comments on: Elderflower champagne… highly volatile

By: privatehire

privatehire — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:06:15 +0000

watch out when opening the bottles………last night i opened the “Grolsh” type bottle and the pressure was so great that it took the lid off and cut my forehead……after a mop up of blood, still drank the stuff….

By: Caspar

Caspar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:25:17 +0000

James, down in the footer is a link to a comments feed, http://www.nik.co.uk/comments/feed/

By: james

james — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:17:59 +0000

Nik, I have your blog on a Google reader feed. Do you know if I can get comments on RSS?

By: Nik

Nik — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:36:04 +0000

I’m not entirely surprised that your champagne managed to rupture a plastic bottle. I have now had six corks come out of my glass bottles, so it’s certainly very strong. I may have to start securing them with caps and cuffs as well as corks.

I deliberately avoided plastic on this account, and bought 15 clear glass wine bottles from a local brewing store, plus 30 corks and a corking gun. The total cost was £25, but most of that was for the corker, which can of course be re-used whenever we make wine, so it’s more of an investment than an expense.

I’m now collecting empty wine bottles from friends and family for the next batch.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:53:29 +0000

Hi Nik,

I wonder if you might be able to pass on some advice. I made a batch of Elderflower champagne two weeks ago and bottled it in plastic fizzy drinks bottles. Yesterday evening there was a huge explosion and both bottles had exploded all over the kitchen! The biggest shame is that the champagne smelt amazing but was splatted all over the ktichen floor! Any advice on what I can use to bottle the champange? Is glass any better than plastic or will it do the same?

Cheers!

By: alex

alex — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:13:12 +0000

They’re brilliant Nik! even if you never drink them, you can be happy knowing they look beautiful!