Hey all this is probably a stupid question, and may have been asked before but..... I usually dont run into this issue but I opened a bottle Sat. night that had a cork. It got too late and I just couldn't finish it ( awful I know). I had to stick about half the bottle in the fridge and will be finishing it tonight. My question is: how is the best way to put an opened bottle back in the fridge and not have the beer go to shit In a day or two? Thanks!
I usually pour the remainder into a smaller bottle that has a swingtop cork w/ rubber stopper. Of course you have to plan ahead to do this (mainly have a clean swingtop bottle on hand) but this has worked well for me. I keep a 500mL bottle on hand for just this situation.
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Honestly, my hillbilly solution, as long as I'm drinking it the next day, is wadded up saran wrap in the neck...not perfect, but a quick fix
Doesn't this cause the beer to go a little flat? You lose some carbonation pouring from one bottle into another, and then more when you pour it from the second bottle. Do you use a funnel? Not trying to be funny here. Just interested in your solution since I occasionally run into this myself.
No, I haven't had a problem w/ this. Usually what I do is, before I even pour the beer I'm going to drink into the glass, I fill the swingtop "reserve" bottle to the very top. I pour very carefully (hardly a trickle) at a very gentle angle to avoid stirring up the beer. I don't use a funnel, just pour mouth-to-mouth. It also helps that I typically do this with high-ABV beers (imperial stouts, barley wines) that generally don't have a lot of carbonation, as these are typically the ones I'm less likely to finish in one sitting. So good carbonation is already less of an issue from the get-go.
I usually cut the cork with a knife at about 45 degrees at the bottom, usually able to put them back into the bottle at that point
Regarding the swingtop method: I've found that beer in my swingtop Stone growler is flat within a few hours. The answer here seems obvious, but when filling a growler with, say, an IPA, does everyone here try to drain that in a single session?
Well, the point I was making was to use a swingtop bottle that's considerably smaller than the original bottle, and also make sure to gently fill it all the way to the top. Basically you want to minimize exposure to air once the original bottle has been opened. So a growler would be relatively useless, unless your original container is a keg.
Tried them at Clusterfork. Seems to be a very short term solutions. More so stuff doesnt fall in your beer. Like their site says, works well for sanitizing before bottling. Cheers!
The wine industry offers thousands of bottle-stoppers. I've used this type with good results: http://findnsave.washingtonpost.com/Product/1976798/Wine-Stopper
Yeah, stick that cork right back in there somehow or find yourself another type of stopper. Don't go for the type that is a favorite gadget of wine drinkers that comes with a rubber stopper and a pump to create a vacuum inside the bottle. It can remove the carbonation from solution.
Honestly, I keep a synthetic cork floating around for recapping wine. I live by myself, so recapping wine is a must. I was gifted a bottle of Hellhound on My Ale totally unexpected. I drank 8 ozs, and recorked with a natural cork. After keeping that thing in the fridge and uncorking it today, the cork just snapped in two. My best advice, go buy cheap as hell wine that uses synthetic corks, pour it for someone, and keep the cork for your own uses.
How long was it in the fridge for? The times I have done this I've only left it in the fridge for like 3 days max
about 4 days. I shouldnt have let it go, but more pressing matters came up. Plus it wasnt high up on the list of priorities. The synthetic cork doesnt have that problem tho.
