Champagne for kids

Well, many of you may like this idea, especially if you have younger children that you don't want drinking your hard stuff. Here we will be making soda, and then putting in champange bottles with plastic stoppers and wires.

Make a regular batch of soda (1 gal.), this should fill about 4 champagne bottles. I prefer to make cream soda in them so it looks more like the real stuff, but any soda will do.

Make the soda according to my recipe and when the yeast is going good bottle in champagne bottles. You should be able to find all that you need to do it at your local wine/beer suppiler, or order online. I would wait 3-4 days, you should see foam at the top of the liquid in the bottles, this indicates it is carbonating. You can tell if it is really fizzy because the stopper will be a little bit up from the bottle. In this case bring the temp. of the soda in the bottle down to about 34º, I'm serious, you need to do this in order to not loose any soda. Then take off the stopper, if it doesn't pop of then use pliers to help.

E.V.