Simon Reed wrote:

When bottling wine and you have some left over
that will not fill a bottle, what do you do with
it?

If you have some splits (half bottles) use these -
otherwise - drink up. I hate it when I don't
have enough to fill another bottle - ha ha



We've been making wine for a few months from a
variety of kits. Some are for a demijohn, some
require one of MY beer making bins (the "30
bottle" kits). Despite following instructions
closely there is never enough in a demijohn to
fill 6 bottles and 30 bottles is usually just
over 27.

What do you do about this?

What do you do with the odd half bottle left
over after filling five
from a demijohn? I know sometimes it is OK to
drink but they're usually rough as old boots at
this point.

I ask because I have had an idea - which is
usually a bad sign. I do
the beer making, my wife does the wine. I have
a bunch of beer bottles
in a wide variety of sizes from 250 ml to 660
ml. BUT, these require a
crown cork cap. What would happen if you
bottled wine in a crown cork
capped bottle? Would it matter at all? Has
anyone tried it? Will the
wine age OK? Presumably lying the bottle down
to keep the cork wet is irrelevant (and might
rust the crown cork?)