whiskeytango Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 What do you guys find works best or is it just personal preference? Anyone ever have a natural cork color their clear spirits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McKee Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Personal opinion.....natural corks with any high proof spirit (80 proof and up) is a mistake. Go synthetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I use synthetic in all my spirits. Works best for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Jewell Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Synthetic. Natural cork has a tendency to break when a bottle is stored in the freezer, which is where some consumers like to store their clear spirits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohninWV Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 We use natural cork on brown spirits and synthetic on clear spirits. Like these folks above, I think synthetic is the best option. We'd use it in all of our products, but, IMO, people expect natural cork in higher priced brown spirits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestar Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Synthetic. For spirits, the customer will open and reopen the bottle, and will store it standing up for extended periods of time. A natural cork would have the tendency to dry out and them crumble or break on repeated openings, as a result. Yeah, they look nice, and I still sometimes like to have them in my wines, but it really pisses me off when one breaks or detaches from the cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskeytango Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 OK so sonds like synthetic is the way to go, who are you getting them from? And any good bad reviews of vendors? Problems with the top separating from the cork? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McKee Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 TAPI makes a nice cork. No issues for 60K+ for us thus far. Kevin Dunbar kevin@tapiusa.com Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NordicDistiller Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 We had major problems with natural corks separating from the bar top in our clear spirits, but Amorim Cork came up with a new adhesive process that seemed to be effective in the 13th hour. Also they peroxide bleach their cork, so taint issues we not prevalent, but we did notice issues with the corks getting some "flora" about them after repeated opening and closing. For us, we wanted to stick with natural cork, but it was such a negative connotation with the natural corks towards our product that we switched to synthetic- tapi, as an interim, and now have moved to Stelvin ROPP capsules. As our sales reps said, "We don't care what the closure is as long as it doesn't break." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dehner Distillery Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 WWW.REDBOOTSTILLS.COM synthetic will not shrink. natural ones will, natural ones are a pain in the back side!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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