Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:25 pm
Cranky a mix of bicarb soda and water is good for removing odours and taste from things.
I've often used it to get the smell out of things like second hand jars used for pickling and such.
It might just work on corks as well.
I considered something like that but I've ultimately decided on another route that I now know is feasible.
One of the more common bottles I find are one liter Woodford reserve which have a really nice natural cork stopper with a wooden top part. Because I haven't figured out a way to remove the wording off the Woodford reserve bottles, short of sandblasting, I don't take them any more but I do take the stoppers because they are good for other bottles. These corks happen to be the same diameter as the Casa Nobles. They are also held to the wood with water soluble glue as is the cork on the Casa Noble stopper. The Woodford reserve corks come off in a couple hours when soaked in hot water. The Casa Nobles require about 24hrs and they come right off. So then it's just a matter of taking the Woodford reserve cork and gluing it into the metal part of the Casa Noble stopper.
There is one thing that makes me consider not actually using the Casa Noble stopper top and that is some of them don't have very good machining. Some are solid stainless steel but others have a plastic/teflon slug in them.
Here are pics of the quality differences. The first one is the sold stainless
and the second one is the one with the plastic slug
Because of this I am seriously considering that idea of turning some unique wooden pieces to replace them with. The more I consider it the more I like that idea
I picked up a Cooperstown limited reserve in a baseball bottle a few weeks ago when I was up there:
Base is a baseball diamond and the decanter is great detail of a baseball including the correct number of threads. The bourbon was ok, pretty sure I bought it for the bottle!
The other day I saw that someone had left a bottle on top of the bottle bin. This happens in general when people want to get rid of glassware without going through the trouble of advertising (I got a few swing-top lid jars this way) or when they realise that it doesn't fit through the hole on the side of the bin. In any case it looked pretty so I picked it up.
It had been rinsed already but I cleaned it out to be sure, and now need to find a cork that'll fit it. Then my curiosity got the better of me and I googled it. Seems it sold (out of production now) for 210-250€ per bottle. Someone in the village must really like their interesting rums. Now I want to meet them!
"I have a potstill that smears like a fresh plowed coon on the highway" - Jimbo
