Bulleit Bourbon/Rye Gripe.

[mawnansmiff]

Ever since I 'discovered' bourbon & rye via this Forum I have bought several hundred bottles over the last 8 or 9 years of various brands and enjoyed each and every one of them.

Last night I discovered amongst my stash a long forgotten about bottle of Bulleit Bourbon (thought I'd drunk it an age ago) so decided that would be my tipple for my late night tot.

As I was removing the protective seal from the bottle I remembered that every single bottle of Bulleit I've ever had came with a loose fitting cork and sure enough, once the seal was removed the cork just popped out with the seal. Why do they do this? I'm amazed they don't leak or evaporate.

Over the years I guess I must have had around 30+ bottles of their glorious juice and always with a loose bung. They look to be of the reconstituted cork variety (one up from those horrible silicone bungs) and as luck would have it I had a bottle of Sazerac Rye in the kitchen with about 1/4 inches left in the bottle so poured that on top of my shot of Bulleit and used that bung which fitted the Bulleit bottle a treat.

BTW, the Bulleit with Sazerac tasted fantastic

Anyone else suffered from undersized corks?

Jay.

 

[PipePint&Cross]

Over the years I've encountered loose corks, snapped corks, and disintegrating corks. I now keep a gallon baggies with a bunch of corks from old bottles in case I come across these scenarios. I always seem to have an appropriate sized cork to replace the malfunctioning one.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Thinking about it I've had several Buffalo Trace corks snap on me so I've had to revert to careful corkscrewing to remove the remainder.

I do actually have a few loose corks in a drawer for such emergencies.

Jay.

 

[shanez]

I've had good luck with silicone stoppers I got off Amazon:



I've got one that's been in a bottle of mezcal for a few years now.