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[crow]

DON'T bring glass on site... you CAN'T dispose of it safely, any bin you throw it in get's dealt with by the recycling crew (yes EVERYTHING gets hand sorted in the recycling area!) and those bags are often compacted first on the lorries so you are send shards of glass someone's way.

I've decanted for the last two years...

What you need to do it this...

buy 2 (or multiples of two... bottles) get a 1.5 litre coke bottle. Super chill the champagne, not frozen, but very cold. This stops it fizzing as much, hot things fizz more.

Then decent very slowly with a funnel. Put cap on and put back in fridge. Ours has been fine every year with still plenty of fizz.

The key is to have as little 'air space' as possible in the bottle - the more you have the more fizz you lose.

But again, please do not bring any glass on site, it's a nightmare when you are working the bins and you grab some filthy broken glass... (and the poor cows etc.)

Edited by crow, 18 June 2010 - 12:24 PM.

[tilt]

If you decant it just before you get on site it should stay fizzy for quite a while, keeping it cold would be more difficult

[farewellandgoodnight]

As people have said already, please don't be tempted to smuggle glass onto site. As no matter how good your intentions common sense often goes out of the window after a few drinks you don’t want to be responsible for getting broken glass everywhere. The rules state no glass so that means no glass.
You can get fizz in cans fairly readily or as mentioned earlier there are bars on site if you want the real thing. Best bet is get a few cans and enjoy your celebration without causing any harm to the animals or the farm.

[budvar]

Personally didn't say the OP should break the rules, just that that's what they might have to do if they want to bring champagne.

How about if they keep the bottle and take it away with them afterwards. I'd buy the "it's incredibly wrong to bring glass on site because it might smash" argument if it hadn't already been brought up that you can buy bottles in shangri-la i.e. it's condoned by GFL in certain places.

Either way I personally wouldn't bring glass. I decant everything into plastic bottles, which is fine for vodka and WKD but no champagne.

[drewsstrat]

Yes prosecco is Italian fizz and it was available from lidl last year in cans. No sight of it yet this year

[tilt]

Nothing says 'congratulations' like cheap Lidl Prosecco in a can  

[Neville Street]

I decanted 6 bottles of Cava into 500ml diet coke bottles and put them in a hard coolbox full of ice on Tuesday afternoon last year.  The last half litre washed down breakfast on Friday, and was still acceptably cold for Mrs NS.

The Cava is in the fridge chilling down now, the Diet Cokes will get drunk this weekend, and the process will be repeated on Monday night/Tuesday afternoon next week :)

[Baby On A Stick]

Thanks All. Came up with a cheap and 'law abiding' answer. My mate make fantastic Elderflower "champagne" which not only goes into plastic bottles (from dustbin it ferments in), it's cheap and it blows your socks off!  

Cheers

See you there

Edited by Baby On A Stick, 21 June 2010 - 05:31 PM.