Wine Bottling - CORKING ISSUES - Or NOT

Recently, Hive account@papa-pepper and I had the opportunity to visit Hive account@shalomacres and bottle some wine. I don't think Hive account@papa-pepper drinks but I love tasting a good wine. And we both love learning from the experiences of others.

We've made a few batches of wine since we began homesteading. Some turned out good and some turned out really good. I don't think we've ever had a batch turn out bad. I attribute our good success with following a few simple rules when it comes to making wine.

First off, spend the little bit of money to get the right equipment and don't skimp on the materials. Hobby wine equipment is sold everywhere and its cheap. So there is no excuse to not get the right stuff. Avoid any instructions to use balloons or saran wrap to seal your containers. Always make sure your equipment is clean and sterile when working with it. Boiling water works great for this if you don't want to buy any industry chemicals.

All that said, what do you do when its time to finish off your wine product? You've spent all this time working on it and now you have to save it for later consumption. This is another mistake I see people making. They will simply put it into containers and tighten the cap and call it good thinking the wine will stay good and sealed.

Just screwing on a cap will not seal the product. It will breathe. This is why it's important to ferment your wine with a bubbler and then you KNOW that its finished when its not producing anymore bubbles. At that point, its safe to bottle it but you need to have that final bottle sealed. This is where corks come in. Otherwise your wine will slowly turn to vinegar. Eck!

Recently at Hive account@shalomacres, we bottled some of his amazing elderberry wine. His wine didn't always taste this good...but we'll save that story for another post. He purchased a wine corker that was similar to one I had nightmares with. My similar handheld corker broke a lot of the corks and didn't seat them in the bottle fully. I then upgraded to a ferrari floor corker.

Hive account@shalomacres purchased a hand corker and surprisingly it worked well compared to the one I bought. I threw mine away because I was so frustrated with it.

The hand corker he purchased worked very well and set the corks at the perfect distance into the bottle. I was really flabbergasted! The hand corker I had was horrible.

This is a past video that I made with an Italian Ferrari floor corker. Yup, that's right, I own an Italian Ferrari and my name is NOT Tai Lopez. Check out the video!

Hey guys! You know you can post pictures in the comments below the same way you upload them in posts. Do you have any good pictures of you making wine? Any bad pictures of you making wine? POST THEM BELOW!

What kind of corker are you using. Let us know.

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