Recently, a friend said in a chat that when buying champagne, he found that some champagne was sealed with a beer bottle cap, so he wanted to know whether such a seal is suitable for expensive champagne. I believe that everyone will have questions about this, and this article will answer this question for you.
The first thing to say is that beer caps are perfectly fine for champagne and sparkling wines. Champagne with this seal can still be stored for several years, and it is even better at maintaining the number of bubbles.
Have you ever seen champagne sealed with a beer bottle cap?
Many people may not know that champagne and sparkling wine were originally sealed with this crown-shaped cap. Regular readers of our site know that Champagne undergoes secondary fermentation, where the still wine is bottled, added with sugar and yeast, and left to ferment. During secondary fermentation, yeast consumes sugar and produces carbon dioxide. In addition, residual yeast will add to the flavor of the champagne.
In order to keep the carbon dioxide from the secondary fermentation in the bottle, the bottle must be sealed. As the amount of carbon dioxide increases, the air pressure in the bottle will become larger and larger, and the ordinary cylindrical cork may be flushed out due to the pressure, so the crown-shaped bottle cap is the best choice at this time.
After fermentation in the bottle, the champagne will be aged for 18 months, at which time the crown cap is removed and replaced with a mushroom-shaped cork and wire mesh cover. The reason for switching to cork is that most people believe that cork is good for wine aging.
However, there are also some brewers who dare to challenge the traditional way of closing beer bottle caps. On the one hand, they want to avoid cork contamination; on the other hand, they may want to change the lofty attitude of champagne. Of course, there are brewers out of cost savings and consumer convenience
Post time: Jul-25-2023