Corks Popping Out of Bottles
 

I have never had this problem before. I have had two corks pop out of
bottles with my Strawberry wine. One was hanging upside down, and the other
was sitting right-side up. It appears all other bottles are fine. Does
anyone know why this might have happened? It seems peculiar to me.

Sounds like some sort of secondary fermentation has emerged in your
Strawberry wine. Did you by chance sweeten the wine? And if so, did you
not stabilize with some Potassium Sorbate to prevent further fermentation?
I'm guessing you may have sweetened your wine a bit, and the leftover yeast
in the wine started to ferment the new sugar that was just added.

Van
"John Fouts" > wrote in message
.. .
>I have never had this problem before. I have had two corks pop out of
>bottles with my Strawberry wine. One was hanging upside down, and the
>other was sitting right-side up. It appears all other bottles are fine.
>Does anyone know why this might have happened? It seems peculiar to me.
>

Before I started to add a wine stabilizer to all my wines, I had some
popping corks with 2 or 3 batches which I thought were ready to bottle and
had been bottled for more than a few months. It is quite a mess. Since I
like my wines semi-sweet (or not bone dry) I stabilize (with sorbate) all my
wines.
Darlene

"Van DeWald" > wrote in message
news:kXpWe.21588$UI.12986@okepread05...
> Sounds like some sort of secondary fermentation has emerged in your
> Strawberry wine. Did you by chance sweeten the wine? And if so, did you
> not stabilize with some Potassium Sorbate to prevent further fermentation?
> I'm guessing you may have sweetened your wine a bit, and the leftover
> yeast in the wine started to ferment the new sugar that was just added.
>
> Van
> "John Fouts" > wrote in message
> .. .
>>I have never had this problem before. I have had two corks pop out of
>>bottles with my Strawberry wine. One was hanging upside down, and the
>>other was sitting right-side up. It appears all other bottles are fine.
>>Does anyone know why this might have happened? It seems peculiar to me.
>>
>
>

Thanks to both of you that responded. I had sweetened my wine about 3 weeks
ago, and did not add any sorbate. I understand that a secondary
fermentation must have occurred. I will add sorbate when my peach wine is
finished, and after it has been sweetened. Can this be added immediately
following the sweetening solution?


"Dar V" > wrote in message
...
> Before I started to add a wine stabilizer to all my wines, I had some
> popping corks with 2 or 3 batches which I thought were ready to bottle and
> had been bottled for more than a few months. It is quite a mess. Since I
> like my wines semi-sweet (or not bone dry) I stabilize (with sorbate) all
> my wines.
> Darlene
>
> "Van DeWald" > wrote in message
> news:kXpWe.21588$UI.12986@okepread05...
>> Sounds like some sort of secondary fermentation has emerged in your
>> Strawberry wine. Did you by chance sweeten the wine? And if so, did you
>> not stabilize with some Potassium Sorbate to prevent further
>> fermentation? I'm guessing you may have sweetened your wine a bit, and
>> the leftover yeast in the wine started to ferment the new sugar that was
>> just added.
>>
>> Van
>> "John Fouts" > wrote in message
>> .. .
>>>I have never had this problem before. I have had two corks pop out of
>>>bottles with my Strawberry wine. One was hanging upside down, and the
>>>other was sitting right-side up. It appears all other bottles are fine.
>>>Does anyone know why this might have happened? It seems peculiar to me.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

If you go to Jack Keller's site, http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/index.asp
, he suggests adding 1 crushed campden tablet, the appropriate amount of
wine stabilizer and sweetener per 1 gallon, and then waiting at least 10
days before bottling. He does suggest waiting longer, which I have started
to do over the past year or so.
Darlene

"John Fouts" > wrote in message
. ..
> Thanks to both of you that responded. I had sweetened my wine about 3
> weeks ago, and did not add any sorbate. I understand that a secondary
> fermentation must have occurred. I will add sorbate when my peach wine is
> finished, and after it has been sweetened. Can this be added immediately
> following the sweetening solution?
>
>
> "Dar V" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Before I started to add a wine stabilizer to all my wines, I had some
>> popping corks with 2 or 3 batches which I thought were ready to bottle
>> and had been bottled for more than a few months. It is quite a mess.
>> Since I like my wines semi-sweet (or not bone dry) I stabilize (with
>> sorbate) all my wines.
>> Darlene
>>
>> "Van DeWald" > wrote in message
>> news:kXpWe.21588$UI.12986@okepread05...
>>> Sounds like some sort of secondary fermentation has emerged in your
>>> Strawberry wine. Did you by chance sweeten the wine? And if so, did
>>> you not stabilize with some Potassium Sorbate to prevent further
>>> fermentation? I'm guessing you may have sweetened your wine a bit, and
>>> the leftover yeast in the wine started to ferment the new sugar that was
>>> just added.
>>>
>>> Van
>>> "John Fouts" > wrote in message
>>> .. .
>>>>I have never had this problem before. I have had two corks pop out of
>>>>bottles with my Strawberry wine. One was hanging upside down, and the
>>>>other was sitting right-side up. It appears all other bottles are fine.
>>>>Does anyone know why this might have happened? It seems peculiar to me.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

"John Fouts" > wrote in message
. ..
> Thanks to both of you that responded. I had sweetened my wine about 3
> weeks ago, and did not add any sorbate. I understand that a secondary
> fermentation must have occurred. I will add sorbate when my peach wine is
> finished, and after it has been sweetened. Can this be added immediately
> following the sweetening solution?

I suggest that you uncork any bottles of the strawberry still corked and
stabilize them. You were lucky that the corks popped instead of the bottles
shattering.

A few years ago, I tried making a cream wine by adding some grape syrup to a
gallon jug that had stopped fermenting months before and bottling soon
after. About a month later I was outside working on something when my wife
ran out to tell me of a series of explosions in the cellar. I went to check
and found that the bottles had all blown up, scattering shards of glass
around the wine cellar. Had anyone been in there at the time, they would
have been seriously injured.

Paul