I started drinking my elderflower champagne 2 weeks after making it, when the "cork" gave only the tiniest of pops. It was very nice, but no fizz.
Yesterday's bottle now has a slight fizz, and with 5 more bottles to go, I am hoping they will get fizzier and fizzier.
The danger of fizzy is why I left plenty of space in the bottles!
Late one evening in my teens there was a loud bang coming from a cupboard in the kitchen. It was opened to find bottles swimming in elderflower champagne as 2 bottles had exploded, with the break coming just above the bases, so at first we couldn't see which bottles the champagne had come from. The whole family, some already in pyjamas, were then slowly easing off the tops (my mother used the old fashioned wire-topped cider bottles) so we could decant some into another bottle, leaving more space at the top.
It happened to me too, at the flat where I used to live; and I left the flat with a tiny piece of green glass still stuck in the spare bedroom ceiling!
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