How to Open Champagne
In order to open a champagne bottle successfully you need just a little patience or some skill. In this article we’re going to write about how to open a champagne bottle step by step regardless of the champagne brands or how expensive it is. For smaller bottles, the pressure level inside it will be lower and perhaps it’s better to exercise with a 200 ml bottle the first time.
It’s fine to pick a regular (750 ml) champagne bottle if you can’t find a smaller one. First, make sure the bottle is chilled. Put it inside an ice bucket for 20 minutes. You can put it in the refrigerator too. Chilled champagne is much more tasty and the pressure level is lower, avoiding a waste when you pop it. The ideal temperature is 5 – 8 degrees C (45 F).
If the bottle is cooled down, take a towel and clean the surface. A dry bottle is easier to handle.
Use a towel to cover the bottle of champagne, and incline the bottle at a small angle pointing it in a safe direction. Next, with your main hand slowly twist the cork while holding the bottle tight with your secondary hand. You can also turn the bottle while holding the cork. You should hear the pop shortly however, sometimes it won’t open so easily. Try a little harder and if it doesn’t work, shake the bottle and then try opening it again. Eventually you’ll open it, but usually it won’t be necessary to shake it. Don’t use a corkscrew. After you open it, remove the towel and start pouring it. Pour just a little and the foam will fill up the glass. Pour some more after the foam is gone.
This is the general systematic method that works with each sort of champagne, regardless of how much it costs. Ordinarily if it’s more expensive, there will be less chances for accidents, as inexpensive champagne brands might have a weak wire cage or a thinner glass.
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I bought a bottle about a month ago and opened it. I never finished it and I wouldnt mind a glass tonight. Ive tasted it, and the only negative is that it is a tad flat. Other than that, it tastes the same. Should this be safe to drink?
i dont care what it tastes like, i just want to know it is safe to drink
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
My dad wanted me to ask what it is called, when you’re on a ship and you smash a champagne bottle. Is it champagne or wine and what part of the boat are they on when they do that, and what’s it called? He’s writing a book, and he has to know.
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
Is it best to put a stopper in the bottle or does the method of putting a spoon in the bottle actually work?
I was given a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne 2002 vintage.
I was told the bottle itself is made with some crystal.
My question is does this bottle actually have crystal in it?
Its heavy and all and I know way back then they used lead crystal, but I think its illegal to use lead crystal.
Thank you.
new years eve is almost here! i dont want to hurt anyone with a cork..how do i prevent the cork from flying across the room?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
How long will it keep its fizz and is there any way for me to make sure it doesn’t go flat within a few days.
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
My dad wanted me to ask what it is called, when you’re on a ship and you smash a champagne bottle. Is it champagne or wine and what part of the boat are they on when they do that, and what’s it called? He’s writing a book, and he has to know.
so i’m just wondering .
how come when you leave a bottle of soda (plastic) in the fridge , it looses its carbonation or bubbles so quickly. however , once you’ve popped open a can of soda (metal) , you can leave it in the fridge, and the bubbles stay in .
& also , once you open champagne , and you stick the handle of a spoon or fork in it , the bubbles stay .
why is this .
is the metal something to do with carbonation staying in both the champagne and soda can ?
My boyfiend proposed to me a couple days ago & I’d like to come up with a creative way to display the bottle of champagne we drank after. I thought mabe a small lamp or something………need ideas!!!!
I am about to travel and as a sovenir I want to bring back an empty 0,21e champagne bottle. I am under the legal drinking age but it is empty. Do you think this would be a problem?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
Let’s say each person drinks 1 full glass of champagne, how many people can a 750 ml bottle satisfy?
Thanks
My boyfiend proposed to me a couple days ago & I’d like to come up with a creative way to display the bottle of champagne we drank after. I thought mabe a small lamp or something………need ideas!!!!
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
Let’s say each person drinks 1 full glass of champagne, how many people can a 750 ml bottle satisfy?
Thanks
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
How long will it keep its fizz and is there any way for me to make sure it doesn’t go flat within a few days.
Let’s say each person drinks 1 full glass of champagne, how many people can a 750 ml bottle satisfy?
Thanks
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
I am making a cake for friend’s party on saturday and i decided to make it in the shape of a champagne bottle but im not sure how to go about it. Should I do it like a swiss roll, then shape it after its cooked, or put small cylinders on top of each other, or make separate pieces and fix them together with the filling and the icing? Or is there a better way?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I have an empty bottle from champagne that I would like to put the cork back in and save as it is from a sentimental occasion. Is there any way to achieve this at home?
so i’m just wondering .
how come when you leave a bottle of soda (plastic) in the fridge , it looses its carbonation or bubbles so quickly. however , once you’ve popped open a can of soda (metal) , you can leave it in the fridge, and the bubbles stay in .
& also , once you open champagne , and you stick the handle of a spoon or fork in it , the bubbles stay .
why is this .
is the metal something to do with carbonation staying in both the champagne and soda can ?
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
My dad wanted me to ask what it is called, when you’re on a ship and you smash a champagne bottle. Is it champagne or wine and what part of the boat are they on when they do that, and what’s it called? He’s writing a book, and he has to know.
can you put champagne/sparkling cider into beer bottles? If so how? I’m making a sparkling wine/Federweisser and I’m curious if I can bottle it in small serving bottles. I was planning on bringing it with me to an event, and I really don’t like the idea of doing it like a champagne bottle or bringing a cooler with me and keeping the airlock on the bottle it’s brewing in, but instead into beer bottles or something similar.
My boyfiend proposed to me a couple days ago & I’d like to come up with a creative way to display the bottle of champagne we drank after. I thought mabe a small lamp or something………need ideas!!!!
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
can you put champagne/sparkling cider into beer bottles? If so how? I’m making a sparkling wine/Federweisser and I’m curious if I can bottle it in small serving bottles. I was planning on bringing it with me to an event, and I really don’t like the idea of doing it like a champagne bottle or bringing a cooler with me and keeping the airlock on the bottle it’s brewing in, but instead into beer bottles or something similar.
We are having a bathalzer size bottle (that sits in a holder to pour from) of champagne at my sons wedding. I am trying to figure out how to most efficiently serve the 150 people champagne timely and also, how long I need to keep it on ice to chill it properly.
My dad wanted me to ask what it is called, when you’re on a ship and you smash a champagne bottle. Is it champagne or wine and what part of the boat are they on when they do that, and what’s it called? He’s writing a book, and he has to know.
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
Let’s say each person drinks 1 full glass of champagne, how many people can a 750 ml bottle satisfy?
Thanks
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
You can shoot a mouse or a bird (don’t remember what it was of those two) from a champagne bottle. Then you can get boosts from hitting lights and so on. The goal in the game is to get as far on the map as possible.
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I am making a cake for friend’s party on saturday and i decided to make it in the shape of a champagne bottle but im not sure how to go about it. Should I do it like a swiss roll, then shape it after its cooked, or put small cylinders on top of each other, or make separate pieces and fix them together with the filling and the icing? Or is there a better way?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
How long will it keep its fizz and is there any way for me to make sure it doesn’t go flat within a few days.
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
How would it be possible to open champagne when the cork breaks off in the bottle’s neck and is stuck there? Thanks for your help
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
so i’m just wondering .
how come when you leave a bottle of soda (plastic) in the fridge , it looses its carbonation or bubbles so quickly. however , once you’ve popped open a can of soda (metal) , you can leave it in the fridge, and the bubbles stay in .
& also , once you open champagne , and you stick the handle of a spoon or fork in it , the bubbles stay .
why is this .
is the metal something to do with carbonation staying in both the champagne and soda can ?
My boyfiend proposed to me a couple days ago & I’d like to come up with a creative way to display the bottle of champagne we drank after. I thought mabe a small lamp or something………need ideas!!!!
I’m setting up a champagne service for a party i’m having. Bottle in iced bucket, and I wanted to accent it with a napkin tied around the bottle’s neck.
Any ideas on how to do this and make it look nice?
My boyfiend proposed to me a couple days ago & I’d like to come up with a creative way to display the bottle of champagne we drank after. I thought mabe a small lamp or something………need ideas!!!!
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
I’m not interested in the bubbles, I know they go away after 3 days of being opened or whatever. But I’m worried about it “spoiling” and getting food poisoning or something. How long does it take *from the day it’s opened* to spoil?
You would expect the gas to escape to escape because the bottle is open and the teaspoon doesn’t seal it… but somehow the champagne stays carbonated and fresh… why?
Just curious, everyone seem to like opening champagne during special ocassion but isnt jumping off a plane and opening a bottle of champagne seem more suitable? even i know superman couldn’t accomplish this but just curious how other would respond because it does seem suicidal, once again the god of stupidity so dont attempt any ideas im given, will not be responsible for any stupidity taken on reading my Q’s and C’s.
editing , came to a conclusion the diver would probably, no, i take that back, scratch the word probably out, the diver would not be able to even open the champagne, but instead get his or her champagne stolen by the wind. the quote for this most ridiculous idiotic question is drink your champagne after not during,. Visitor to my question prob think dude you just answer your own question, yeah because yall were to slow and i would like to hear others opinions.
I’m setting up a champagne service for a party i’m having. Bottle in iced bucket, and I wanted to accent it with a napkin tied around the bottle’s neck.
Any ideas on how to do this and make it look nice?
I have a bottle of champagne from 2000. I bought it in Dec.1999 for the millenium & never opened it. Then I still have kept it unopened all this time, not refrigerated, in the kitchen. I am not sure if it is like wine & will age better with time or it champagne goes bad.. I don’t want to get sick from it is this is the case. Please help…I’m not a champagne connioseur.
Me? Oh, I just pop open some Cristal champagne and invite my friends over to celebrate. What do you do?
Many recipes that call for wine-Can you use Champagne red or white instead? No one ever says. Second does Champagne HAVE to be refrigerated after opening? Most alcohol (wine,liquor)does not ,but what about Champagne? Can you get food poisening from Champagne that has been left out several days when the weather is warm?
Main rap Goldlen gate
growning up as a kid parents never around no one to help me when i was falling down i got the serenity of a king i can be anything south streets always crowded my city always doubted me til i rose to the top when i won the golden ring and cracked open the champagne top i aint ever going to stop party hard party all day thats the way to live your life like your heart is hooked up to a device tickin down til its down to 0 its time to play can i be your hero yaaaaa i am so sick i roll in lambos with my boy race dont madder kick you to the curb take ya to saturn my time is almost up whats on me cant be anything to powerful i smash like a king step into the ring if you think you got what it takes to be the next mvp ding ding girl i take to where ever you wanta go i am a god i clap my hands to start the show yaaa never wanted my kids first seeing me be on the tv screen getting b usted for drugs i hold the golden key that opens the golden gate to another universe full of druds and pain i cant quite remember the name
flying so high i can the sky my eyes all red need a lil vizen to keep mt strait i drunk all 8 crates ima lil tipsy so ima be a lil late yaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Chorus
Ya see I was a troubled kid I learned how to run from a shoot of a gun only thing I ever wanted was to be reunited with the man up stairs ………………… all my life I just been trying to make it to planet hezzy where the kush is juicy and daddy cant see me bitch I aint quiting life on the south side you learn to survive seeing things people should never see yaaa baby im entering planet heezy.
What can I use it for, it’s such a waste to throw it away. How long could I keep it if I wanted to put it in a meat dish during the week?
Thanks all!
Get her back to my place and open a bottle of Champagne at the nights end?
I’ve seen really great places. But before I make a choice I want to really visit all my options. My Guestlist is for 200 ppl. But we have drafted list that we can invited up to 260 and downsize to 120. But I’m really looking for a place that can accomodate 200+
So if anyone can give me they’re opinion on reception halls in the queens brooklyn or long island area of NYC. And the prices if you know and what the packages include.
So far I really like the Grand Prospect Hall $110 per person (+18% service charge and tax) But this place & service is jaw dropping
And The Villa Russo which has an ALL inclusive package for 9995 for 100 people.. (+service charge & tax) and $59 each additional person. That includes dj, centerpieces, favors, a limo, a tux rental, photo & video coverage, cake, champagne and open bar.
But I know there are some hidden treasures out there! The less money I spend on my reception, the more I can put on my house down payment.
Esspecially these ppl who have weddings under 5k! Please tell me how u do it.
Champage is a carbonated beverage and builds pressure if contained. Therefore, it would make sense that a champage bottle would be thicker than a wine bottle.
Given any amount of liquid stored, how much thicker is a champage bottle compared to a wine bottle?
What do you think? We’re going to have around 80 people at our wedding, and let’s face it, most of us will probably be drinking all night. We’ll have beer and wine as well, so we’ll probably keep the champagne unopened until we cut the cake, but we want to have enough of it for everyone to participate in the toast. What say all you fine, food-savvy people? How many bottles should we buy?
I was listening to a wine officianado explaining how to open a bottle of champagne. He emphasized that the cork shouldn’t make a popping sound when you open the bottle. I thought maybe because it lets too much carbonation out. But from my own experience, I always let the cork pop loudly and the champagne is still as bubbly as can be. Isn’t a loud POP! a lot more festive then a tired out “Fffttt”?
I’d like to find and buy a Moet&Chandon bottle this size?
And it turns out that they in fact, haven’t paid it back, no where near… THE SPIN ON THIS IS MAKING ME DIZZY!!! (stop the lies, I want to get off)
excerpt…
In short, GM is using government money to pay back government money to get more government money. And at a 2% lower interest rate at that. This is a nifty scheme to refinance GM’s government debt–not pay it back!
GM boasts that, because it is doing so well, it is paying the $6.7 billion five years ahead of schedule since it was not due until 2015. So will there be an accelerated payback of the rest of the $49.6 billion investment? No. That goal has been pushed back, as it turns out.
The General Accountability Office, on the other hand, remains deeply pessimistic. It concluded in a December report (which a more recent April report has said nothing to contradict, despite media spin to the contrary) that: “The Treasury is unlikely to recover the entirety of its investment in Chrysler or GM, given that the companies’ values would have to grow substantially more than they have in the past.”
Mr. Whitacre’s bailout payback ploy is a desperate attempt to win back the car-buying public deeply disgusted by the spectacle of GM rattling its tin-cup before Uncle Sam. But the fact of the matter is that the company is still deep in the hole. It might claw its way back – or it might not. But surely it’s premature for its media boosters to pop open the champagne bottle without getting their story straight?
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/23/general-motors-economy-bailout-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia.html
I refer to the debate among owners in le champagne to outsource vine yeards to England due to over demand…
Truetell do you have your computer stool upside down by any chance?
My friend is bringing a small champagne bottle from Europe to the states, but she doesn’t want the bottle to pop in mid air.
The bottle will be in a check-in bag, but we dont know if the cargo is pressurized or heated.
Thanks!
i decided to open a bottle of champagne and i have no clue how old it is? is this okay?
I’m setting up a champagne service for a party i’m having. Bottle in iced bucket, and I wanted to accent it with a napkin tied around the bottle’s neck.
Any ideas on how to do this and make it look nice?
When I open it, there’s a barely audible pop. Nothing happens and everyone just looks unimpressed. But the opposite way, where you pop the cork and foam goes spilling everywhere also seems to be the wrong way to go about it. How do you get the loud cork pop without foam spilling everywhere?
what do people do after you open a bottle of champagne but did not get to finish its contents. i tried to recork it, but the cork came flying out after a while.
I have this nice bottle of champagne brought over from France. I was planning on serving it one night and put it in the cold. I wasn’t able to serve it that night and want to put it back to room temperature until a later date. Will this taint the taste or quality of the champagne the next time I chill and serve it?
My partner and I are expecting our first child in a month and I would like some suggestions on what wine or champagne we should buy to celebrate. Normally we enjoy something like Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc but are open to suggestions. Price is not a major issue.
PS We are in Aus.
I have had an unopened bottle of champagne in my frige for over a year now. Will it still be good or even safe to drink?
I have a cheap bottle of champagne, the kind where you twist a metal top to open it. I’m supposed to twist it until I hear a pop, but it never happens. The top never seems to get tighter or looser no matter how much I twist it? Am I missing something or is there something wrong with the bottle? And to think this was supposed to make Champagne easier to open (lol)! Any help is appreciated.
It’s not a traditional cork bottle. It has a metal cap on top, similar to beer and soda bottles but it’s noticeably bigger. Twisting the top apparently pulls out the stopper, and I should hear a ‘pop’ when this happens. The problem is that it never happens, I twist and twist and nothing ever happens. It’s not any of the bottle tops listed in the link “didntevengetachance” listed, unfortunately.
A groom opens a champagne bottle and the cork pops vertically upwards at 8m/s. What is its velocity when it returns to the groom?
Can you show me how to work it to get the correct answer?
how many pounds of pressure in a champagne bottle to make the cork pop?
How long will it keep its fizz and is there any way for me to make sure it doesn’t go flat within a few days.
I opened a bottle of champagne for Christmas. Surely it’ll still be OK to drink for New Year’s, but what about after? How long will it keep in the fridge? (I’m not a big drinker, so I won’t finish it off anytime soon.)
of course I re-corked it silly.
I opened a bottle on christmas day to have one glass (been breastfeeding and not drinking since I got pregnant…..nearly 2 years now) how long will it keep for and is it okay to drink it even if its gone a bit flat
Oh Kimbo. I didnt buy it. It was a gift from last year when my daughter was born and my boyf has been drinking it too.
1. “I have spent many years opening champagne bottles, always carefully holding them so as not to hit anyone. This was the first time I had taken deliberate aim.”
2. “So there you have your mission. Astonish me. Amuse me. Convince me.”
3. “You’d have to multiply what I saw times all the hours I wasn’t looking, by all the angles I wasn’t watching, by every other latitudinal line, by forever.”
4. “It seemed even more seductive, certainly more real, in the cool grey morning light. How on earth had it happened?”
5. “Instead of counting sheep, she counted all the motherless girls in literature she could think of, starting with Emma woodhouse, Eliza Dolittle, Scout Finch, Cordelia, Lady Chatterley, Nancy Drew . . . and finally fell asleep.”
A) admissions by Nancy Lieberman p 91
B) Blue Rose by Anthony Elgin p 18
C) Eat, Drink, and be Merry By Peter Kin p. 208
D) DeNiro’s Game Rawi Hage pg 46
E) Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall P 153
F) Radical Prunings by Bonnie Thomas Ab
do not need 7d and 4b any more thanks for all your help who do these books are not in my lib. so needed some help
Hi guys. I’m about to ask you an incredibly irrelevant and bamboozling question that has been plaguing me since I recently re-watched Gossip Girl’s season 2.
For those of you who don’t remember, episode 13 is the episode with Bart’s funeral/Eleanor’s wedding. Dorota whispers something to Blair while Cyrus and Eleanor are cracking open the champagne, and she goes upstairs to find Chuck in her room.
Now, here comes the confusing bit – how the hell did Chuck get up there? He clearly wasn’t upstairs when the wedding started, and the only way to Blair’s room is to come out of the elevator and up the stairs. Are we expected to believe that he crept past all the wedding guests (including the rabbi, who was actually facing the staircase) AND got up the stairs and into Blair’s room without anyone noticing him?
I’d say he came in through the window, but he was both a) inebriated and b) not Spiderman.
Any thoughts? The most logical/funny one will win best answer!
I guess I should start this off by stating my wife and sister are identical twins. And I guess I should apologize for the length of this, but bear with me it is an actual problem and I do need advice on how to handle it.
So, every year for Thanksgiving my wife and I meet her parents and her sister at their families vacation house for the long weekend. We usually take separate cars there, as I work about 45 mins out of town (in the direction of the vacation house). I like to save time by not having to backtrack to our house, so we agree to meet there. My company only works a half-day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, while my wife’s company does not, but she said she was going to try to take off a few hours early and meet me there early.
As I arrived at my in-laws vacation house, it appeared that no one had made it there yet. No cars in the driveway, no lights on, etc. So I grabbed the spare key (that they keep in a frog statue in the garden by the porch) and let myself in. As I opened the front door I could here some soft music playing, and the dim flickering of candlelight from upstairs. After taking my coat off, I made my way through the living room to the kitchen. On the kitchen table was bottle of opened, chilling champagne, two glasses, and a note surrounded by some rose petals. The note said “get yourself upstairs NOW!!! bring the champagne xoxoxoxo”
Of course, I grabbed the champagne and headed upstairs, barely noticing the trail of rose petals on the staircase leading to one of the bedrooms. I began to think this was odd, as my wife is not usually this romantic, but we’ve been married eight years, and had talked about spicing things up on occasion. As I turn the corner down the upstairs hall, I see my wife standing in the doorway with some very sexy lingerie on. I am thinking today’s my lucky day, and what a great weekend this is gonna be. Now I will spare you the details on what happened next, but let me say that she did things that she had never done before. She is usually pretty reserved when it comes to bedroom things, preferring missionary style, etc, etc. Not wanting to kill the mood, I did not question any of this, just figured I should enjoy it. My wife was going out of her way to finally start spicing things up, who was I to be a buzzkill.
After about ninety minutes of passionate love-making, we take a shower together, clean up, and head downstairs. As we are hanging around the kitchen, making small talk, and eating fritos with onion dip, I notice my wife’s car pulling into the driveway! My stomach dropped so hard, it felt like it was falling out of my body. I glanced over at the woman who I thought was my wife, and she had this sheepish little grin on her face! As you probably have surmised thus far, it was not my wife that planned this little escapade, but her sister. I broke out in a panic, the cold sweat beading on my forehead, I was not sure what to do!
Ultimately, I tried to play it cool, I am very surprised my wife never caught wind of anything, as the air in that house was heavy with awkwardness when she walked in. But she just greeted us as everything was normal. Now, the rest of the weekend was fairly uneventful, except for the sly grins, and winks from my wife’s sister. It’s been about 4 months since that happened, and I have not discussed these events with anyone. It has been awkward being around my wife’s sister, but I do not think my wife suspects anything. My wife’s sister has not made any more advances, or anything to me since. She has always been, the more mischievous of the two but this prank she pulled was definitely over the top.
So, I guess I am asking for advice on whether or not I should tell my wife about this episode. I don’t believe I cheated because I really believed I was with my wife. I am positive she does not suspect anything, and I really don’t want to upset her or put my marriage in jeopardy. So should I just keep quiet?
Yes, folks, this is real….I did suspect something wasn’t right but I chalked it up to my wife trying to spice things up…we had been talking about spicing things up for a few months prior…
I need to know what year gave the best champagne from the year 1900 to the year 2000…
Wine experts will sometimes complain that a bottle of wine is ‘corked’. Typically this means that a chemical reaction has taken place between the wine and the cork, thus damaging the wine.
How can I tell if a bottle of wine is ‘corked’? Specifically, if a glass of champagne tastes of cork, does that mean the bottle was ‘corked’.
And please, let’s pass on the obvious joke about corked meaning the cork was removed…
I always love to tell my story……
We went to the Marriott at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit for a night on the town. We both dressed up and went to eat a beautiful dinner at Seldom Blues. We ate a wonderful seafood dinner on the riverfront, laughing and sharing wine. We went back up to our room which was located on the 57th floor of the hotel. Waiting for us was a bottle of champagne on ice for two. The room was beautiful, the windows stretched floor to ceiling and went the entire length of the room, over looking the Detroit river and the Windsor skyline. While Nick opened the champagne I went for the drapes we had a beautiful view and they were closed. When I opened them written on the window in big letters were the words:
“Kristy will you Marry me?”
Of course I thought that I had ruined his plan or a surprise or something by opening them up so I responded with:
“Oh my god, I’m sorry!”
Nick waiting there on one knee with the ring in his hand laughed and said:
“That wasn’t quite the answer I was hoping for!”
Lets here your stories!!
** Lets HEAR your stories!
u know that scene where angelina jolie and brad pitt are having dinner, sitting across the table from each other. then brad pitt comes to her side of the table to open the champagne, then drops the champagne bottle, and angelina catches it. was that done deliberately by brad pitt, and what it signified when she caught it? how did that event/scene change the equation between them?
i was celebrating an end of a relationship by myself and only had about 2 glasses…how can i close the bottle back up? the cork doesn’t fit and its too late to go to the store to get a special pressurised resealing cork…
My girlfriend and i attend different schools and see each other during breaks and sometime we visit each other. we have been going out for about 3 years now. i think about her all the time, and my problem is that i bitch her out on the phone occasionally when im drunk. Now, hear me out on why i do this. My girlfriend is on a club team and every night she hangs out with the boys team and smoke drink and idk what the fuck else they do at house. most of the time whenever she goes she is with her roommate. the roommate is single and is looking to mingle if you know what i mean. my girlfriend is very flirty, she can easily make guy friends, and i would never expect her to cheat but in the back of my mind tells me what if. i told her before how i felt about all this and she told me that whenever she tells me storys that include her guy friends in it i act like i dont care. which is true i dont but i listen because it her and i love her. i told her i get jealous because shes always over there and we barely even talk this semester because she is “too busy” with school work. but shes always with the guys smoking on the weekdays, and both srinking and smoking and other things i dont know of on the weekends. because of the fact that we dont talk as much as we used to, i begin to think of stuff that she might be doing and that always ends up horrible because my mind begins to believe all the nasty and fucked up things she probably wouldnt do. butwe are both in college and when i visit her one time with here sister she told the both of us that she is in this phase where she is willing to try new things…like other drugs or what ever.an i told her i wasnt cool with that but i cant control her. last year we were having a verbal fight about some stupid shit like she was telling a story that involved her guy friends and she told me ” fine, i wont tell you anything that included my friends.” and i was like only your guy friends, because that makes me jealous that other guys are having fun with her and im away at school. the thing that ticked me off was after i said that she said ” what you dont know cant hurt you right” and i was speechless and mad. so back to my problem that i am having with my girlfriend is that, she is on the verge right now on deciding whether or not to stay together on my actions on words ive said that i would have never have told her if i wasnt so drunk. because you see this happened before. and now i think she had too much. i bottle in the horrible things i think that hypothetically might be going on at her school with her guy friends. i never wanted to know all of the things i thought about because i know the are just absurd and just plain horrible. and the ottle that i tried to contain just popped open like a champagne bottle on new years and every word that i never wanted her to know just flowed right out. she has every right to do what she wants with me know, but i dont want to lose her.if we were to break-up idk if i can chase the girl im in love with if i broke her heart words i never wanted her to know. so if anyone can help ASAPi would really appreciate it
how long does an open bottle of champagne start to go flat…can you re seal it and drink it a few hours later and it still be fizzy?
Y & R has been filled with so much comedy lately…On last Friday’s episode, I almost fell out of my seat when Lauryn told Eden that she was going to make burgers!!! Really? And when Gloria popped open the Champagne bottle only to hit Jill in the head with the cork…
How much longer do we have to endure watching America’s Dumbest Criminals with their botched attempt at the Chancellor fortune?
And I never thought I would say this but I feel sorry for poor Chloe….what happened to Chloe’s edge? When she first arrived in GC, she was so vindictive so Phyllis like, now she’s letting Billy get the best of her?