So the unthinkable has happened and I've got a bottle of really good gin that won't come out of the bottle. When I try to pour it, the liquid inside the bottle moves but won't come out. Has this ever happened to any of you? What can I do?
What's blocking it? Maybe I'm not understanding what's going on. Take off the lid, upend the bottle, out comes gin. Is there something in the way of the opening?So the unthinkable has happened and I've got a bottle of really good gin that won't come out of the bottle. When I try to pour it, the liquid inside the bottle moves but won't come out. Has this ever happened to any of you? What can I do?
The bottle has a cap and a stopper and it's the stopper that doesn't seem to be pouring. I take out the cap and try to pour the gin but it doesn't come out.What's blocking it? Maybe I'm not understanding what's going on. Take off the lid, upend the bottle, out comes gin. Is there something in the way of the opening?
I'd have smashed the bottle over a sieve by now. Voila!!
Russ
Some spirits come with a flame retardant stopper. I've encountered it on a number of bottles over the years. One such battle (lol, typo it should read bottle but battle will do) was a cask strength whisky... Another a bottle of vodka and another I think was a bicardi 151 that was a very high proof...I'm still not following the exactly what you mean, but it would seem pretty straightforward - something is blocking the opening, so remove that something and you'll be fine.
I sometimes get olive oil bottles (plastic) where the manufacturing process failed to punch out some holes to allow the oil to pour out. I just get a pointy bottle opener, jab it into the plastic top, then pry it off.
Can you post a picture? Bottles with pourers (if that's what you have)...the pourer can usually be popped off. My two bottles of gin, one has a screw top and the other a cork top.
I think this has to be the case. But, I understand that liquor bottles sometimes have a spout added to discourage unscrupulous distributors from refilling the bottles. Here's an interesting discussion on this that might have the answer LissaC needs.we've not heard. I suspect the bottle has flowed, adequate to satiate a response,,,, perhaps???
had a evoo bottle from portugal with an impossible flow regulator.... didn't work, couldn't get the dxxx thing out.....
center punch + hammer made it flow quite nicely.....