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blew cork out, made mess
I finished my wine, from welches juice several weeks ago. Used the Campden tablets, used stabalizer according to the recipe on Jack Kellers site.
I had adapted the recipe to make 3 gallons and had 14 bottles. I used saniclean, onestep and boiling water to sanitize my equipment. I let this sit in the glass carboy for 14 days after stabelizing, then bottled.
After a week standing up, I laid the bottles down on the shelf. I did drink a couple, tasted fine. I gave one bottle away, he said it was good also.
Last Sunday one on the corks blew out, made one heck of a mess. I tasted what was left in the bottle. Tasted awful. I put the rest of the bottles in an old ice chest, laying down. No more explosions. Was it just a unsanitary bottle, dirty cork, of just something in the air between the time I sanitized and filled and corked? I opened one more bottle and it tasted ok also.
I had the same thing happen to me with a still mead I made. My guess is there was some residual CO2 in the mix. Did you stir well prior to bottling? I've heard to stir it quite a bit to rid it of excess gas.
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