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You ever wondered why those wine bottle heat shrink capsules/seals have holes in them?
If you have, I have an answer for you: that's because they're meant to serve no purpose whatsoever, other than making the bottle look pretty while allowing for sealing of the wine too early while it's still outgassing. And yeah, corks are not hermetic at all. That's why actually good wine is always sealed with wax ;)

@ThatCrazyDude I guess that's why you do the heat shrink thing then... your wines are never good... 🤣

@fuknukl there's a reason why almost all supermarket wine is sealed with those, even though sealing wax is actually cheaper, isn't it lol

@ThatCrazyDude Actually I just thought it was for branding, to protect the top of the bottle and otherwise exposed cork?

@fuknukl well, maybe. But I'm kinda thinking that if I was running commercial wine making operation, I'd be doing my bottle neck branding directly on the crock if I was really hell bent on that. I mean, you can see the crock trough the bottle and branded crock looks kinda fancier than a piece of heat shrink tubing

@ThatCrazyDude $$$ (or in your case €€€)

@fuknukl dunno if that's really an issue. In fact, I doubt it. I mean, if you're brewing at home for yourself, the family and close friends like I do, it definitely wouldn't make sense, since you'll be buying 100 corks at a time tops, but you can justify ordering like 5,000 run, I don't think the manufacturer would even charge you for changing the brand stamp they slap on them by default

@ThatCrazyDude @fuknukl you can’t fix a crafter they just gonna do it and innovate along the way.

@ThatCrazyDude in the homebrew community, we usually dip our very best beers in the really hard wax. It's not so much for the seal or the asthetics, but more to drunk-proof the good stuff. Hard to open those special bottles when you've been drinking all day and run out of the regular stuff.

@ThePilgrim about to melt some "wax" and do some sealing myself. :)

@sullybiker @sj_zero @ThePilgrim the stuff they sell for sealing bottles isn't very good for sealing envelopes tho. I mean, it's cheap, even the fancy metalic "gold" stuff I gorge the other time was like 20 bucks a kilo, but since it's made for bottles, it's more of a plastic/rubber than real letter sealing wax. It will stick to paper just fine, but you'll never get that "breaking the seal experience out of that, so there's that. Just saying ;)

@ThatCrazyDude @sullybiker @sj_zero yep. That's the stuff for protecting your good stuff from drunks!