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.
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?
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 