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Flafemina

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I know this is a wine making forum but I am looking for some guidance on beer bottling. I broke my beer bottle capper over the weekend and needed to cap 50 more bottles of beer. Couldn't find one anywhere so I used my wine corker and corked the bottles. Is this an issue? Should I cap over the corks now that I can buy a new capper? Thank you for the help.
 
Bit of a delay, sorry. Definitely cap over the corks- while you won't get bottle bombs (unless you over-primed then capped the bottles), the carbonation stands a very good chance at pushing the corks out. Most corked beers will use a champagne style cork with a wire to hold it in place.
 
The carbonation tends to push the cork out.

For future reference, if the capper breaks pry off the bell piece from the capper.
Use this with a mallet or hammer an tap the caps on.
The bell simply crimps the caps when pushed down.

You could also have used a piece of PVC piping. If the open end of the size of a cap it can be used crimp down the cap.
 

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