I'm looking to upgrade the crown part of my headjoint cork assembly with a gold or wood one. But would buying a $400 small piece actually improve the sound quality of my flute enough to justify the cost? Or would it be purely placebo effect / power of suggestion? Obviously I would have my local flute tech swap it out. I've been playing since middle school, I'm in my mid 20s now and just bought a new Yamaha beginner model (it suits my hobbyest needs just fine) but I want a little bit richer of a sound (I don't have high expectations) without breaking the bank. So no thousand dollar fancy schmancy headjoint lol. Help?
Hi all,
I have been collecting a variety of bottles for my first mead batch that I've been planning.
I have a variety of bottles collected from friends who drink. I have spirit type bottles with screw tops. wine bottles with screw tops. a couple of liqueur bottles with plastic or cork feeling stoppers.
I've also been considering keeping some beer bottles from store brought beers that I've drank and get some fresh crown caps to recap them.
I also think some of the bigger bottled could be corked.
Anyone have any experience with different types of bottle tops and stoppers when used for mead?
Are crown cork capped beer bottles suitable for bottling mead into?
I'm about to bottle my mead but I have a few questions. I see people using potassium metabisulfate to sanitize their corks, can I use chemipro oxi to sanitize them, and rinse them before I bottle? Because it's the only sanitizer I have on hand. Same for crown corks? Or do you just not sanitize corks?
Corks have a quality lable of 3 SIL and seem synthetic
Recently there was an article about Belgian brewers who conditioned their bottles laying on the side, but I know they use cork and cage or cork and cap.
Is it safe to condition a bottle on its side if it's just a crown cap, if I only do it for the two weeks-month required for carbonation before I turn it upright again? Or is that just risking too much in terms of oxidation or rust or metallic flavors?
I have the special Belgian bottles that take champagne corks but what about standard American beer bottles that came with crown caps? Has anyone here corked them? Your answer would be very much appreciated.
I know champagne corks compress more but are also wider. Any chance they'll break the bottle. I used a synthetic wine cork from a wine I just opened and it slid into a beer bottle fine, so much so I'm worried it might leak. It was snug at the opening though.
Also let me know if it is okay to use it for few months wine aging as well
I recently got one of the small double-lever style hand corkers, because I wanted to up my style a bit on gifted bottles and experiment with cork+cap for my long term stuff.
I tried corking an empty test bottle today before applying everything to an actual batch, and I've run in to some issues. I can cork the bottle just fine, but when I try to remove the cork, it is damn near impossible. I ended up chipping the lip of the test bottle several places to remove the cork, to the point where it is ruined and will have to be discarded.
I bought 38x23mm corks (somewhere between a #8 and #9 wine cork), the ID of the bottleneck is 18mm at the lip. I had the cork dipped in water before inserting it.
I like the look of the 375ml Belgian bottle, and I'd like to cork+cap them the same way you can with a Belgian champagne bottle to maximize the shelf life (and for aesthetics honestly) - anyone have experience with either? Is this a horrible idea?
I ordered a mix of 750ml and 330ml wine bottles online, got all the way to bottling my first batch of wine, and I just realised they sent the wrong 330ml bottles, and the caps don't fit. I have an excess of beer/cider bottles that are already sterilized from a recent batch of cider. Can I use some of those, with crown caps or will that somehow ruin it as it conditions?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Will a cork for wine bottles work ? And where can I buy just the cork?
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
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