broken cork : (

It's not going to go bad over night but I would decant it into an empty whisky bottle to be safe.

thanks monty :-)

@f.hertz the solution is easy. You simply buy another bottle of laphroaig which you drink immediately, then, poor the whisky from your corked one into the freshly emptied bottle...

@f.hertz Poor all the whisky into another container - anything large enough to hold the volume. Then turn the empty bottle with the broken cork stuck in it upside down and use a steak knife/corkscrew/screwdriver to 'cut' chunks off the cork until it is small enough to fit through the neck. Rinse out the cork and poor the whisky back in. Also keep a few spare stoppers from your empties as this will happen again and it's always useful to have a few kicking about. Good luck.

cpt. tom — don't think it hadn't crossed my mind ; )

rick — i actually ended up doing something of the sort you suggested, using the "plastic bag method" of removing the half cork still in the bottle. here it is on youtube, if anyone's interested: www.youtube.com/watch

Now that is a handy tip!

@f.hertz Brilliant - will try that next time

I've had that happen a couple of times.

What I eventually did was pour the contents into a clean empty, then shake the piece of cork down so that it seated itself appropriately in the neck of the bottle, then put the bottle in the microwave for a few seconds. Pop-voila--cork's out. Then just pour the whisky back into the bottle. I always save corks, too, for just such a problem.

Ch

This happened to me with my bottle of Bunnahabhain 12 Year. I just grabbed the cork from a recently emptied wine bottle (with the stained end out of the bottle). Also, you local hardware will sell various size corks, so you should be able to find one that fits.

Same thing happened to me on Laphroaig 18. I used a corkscrew to pull out the stub. At that time I didn't save old corks so I used Elmer's Glue to put the two halves back together then clamped the cork with a spring clamp overnight (I sprayed wine preserver in the bottle and sealed it with food wrap and a rubberband till moring).

I actually made a trip to the local hardware store today. Aside from typical corks, mine also had liquor corks, just like the ones that come with the bottle : )