Popping corks!

[Mash]

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!


<struggling>

[gaza the instructor]

Makin two lips from Hamster jam!!

[Mash]

Groan

[gaza the instructor]

You gotta get in the groove Mash.
"Illegitimi Nill Carborundum."
translation.....
" Do'nt let the bastards grind you down"

Thats all my Latin used in one go..and French And Spanish and Italian and German and Welsh
dont speak any Jock or Paddy at all

[Mash]

I always liked "fiat lux". Let there be light..... Just waiting for that well known cast manufacturer to bring it out, will LMTO.

[Easydrinker]

I am sure that would be funnier if yer spell checker was working.

Robert.

[Klunk]

Blimey, I've only just come back to this thread. Monty Python is not really my bag. Perhaps I'm too thick to get it.

Got bottles from mate in Germany, cheap as chips, think they were chinese seconds, will do for me and I only wanted a couple of dozen, all for Xmas

Normally get the Ophir bottles off my publican mate but not had that many off him lately. Got thing about them apart from being a really good heavy duty bottle, the labels come off easy

[Mash]

Just read the OP again. Are the corks lifting or popping? Volume changes with temp, maybe the closures are not a good match for the bottles.

[Klunk]

They were generally lifting, but one did shoot off and hit my mate on top of his napper and then caught in his hand

They seem OK ATM. I think there were three factors which I think you have highlighted all of them

1. Change in room temp. It's in mid 20'sC of an evening currently.
2. Maybe being a bit too generous when filling and not allowing room for expansion
and
3. The one you just mentioned, stoppers not being the best fit, though I don't think it's the stoppers more like the cheap chinky bottles maybe not offering the best of fits. Probably why I got them so cheap.

Not a lot I can do about 1 & 3 ATM but I reduced the amount of spirit down to the absolute base of the neck and they seem OK for now

[Mash]

You are bang on their. Pardon the pun.

You MUST have an air gap.
Air is compressable liquid isn't.

So you need to take a nip out of each of them.... Oh dear, tuff job

[Klunk]

Shocking (hic)

*Done with my best Sean Connery accent*

[Easydrinker]

Beware screwcaps and alcohol above 40%.
Just sayin'

Robert.