plastic wine bottle corks

[topgear]

has anyone used plastic wine bottle corks are they any good for home brew??? do they go in easy??? why is there 22mm and 24mm??? :

 

[Moley]

If you mean this sort of thing, yes, they are great :thumb:

I didn't realise they came in different sizes, but screw necked bottles can have a significantly larger inside diameter than corked bottles, and I would always test a stopper inside the bottle neck before I went to the bother of cleaning the bottle or removing the label, sometimes they are too loose a fit or don't touch the sides at all.

With previously corked bottles, these stoppers may need a bit of gentle persuasion to drive all the way home, like a rubber mallet, and some leverage with the back of a knife to get them out again, but they are re-usable and you can store the bottles upright.

 

[topgear]

hi moley thanks for your reply, but i mean the ones that look like real corks but are made of soft plastic :hmm:

 

[Moley]

If you have found a supplier of those in realistic quantities at sensible prices, give us a link.

For me, that's got to be less than 70p a dozen inc. carriage, and I usually buy by the hundred.

 

[snail59]

I think he might mean one's like these NORMACORC I haven't used them so can't comment.