Champagne question

[Debbiefromtucson]

Can you bring to altitude?

[TellurideTom]

Of course. They do sell it at the liquor stores there.

[zack_adcock]

In my experience, if you're bringing it from down below it has the tendency to pop louder / with greater velocity, probably for the same reason bags of chips appear as if they'll burst at the seams when you reach altitude.

I'm not a physics expert (obviously), but I'd expect this makes sense somehow ;-)

[Hooch]

In my experience, if you're bringing it from down below it has the tendency to pop louder / with greater velocity, probably for the same reason bags of chips appear as if they'll burst at the seams when you reach altitude.

I'm not a physics expert (obviously), but I'd expect this makes sense somehow ;-)

I think it depends on what altitude at which it was originally bottled.  But for fun let's just assume that popping Champagne at 9000 ft in Telluride could be deadly 

[Debbiefromtucson]

As long as it will not explode while driving.... I was thinking of packing a case or so

[zack_adcock]

Do it!

[Debbiefromtucson]

Anyone know a source for compostable champagne glasses or wine glasses?

[zack_adcock]

For our wedding, we bought FabriKal Greenware products from WEBstaurantStore.com -- here's a link:

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/fabri-kal-greenware-gc9of-9-oz-clear-plastic-squat-cold-cup-50-pack/999GC9.html

They run about $4.59 / 50-pack -- a pretty good deal in comparison with other compostable plastic products, we found.

[Hooch]

For our wedding, we bought FabriKal Greenware products from WEBstaurantStore.com -- here's a link:

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/fabri-kal-greenware-gc9of-9-oz-clear-plastic-squat-cold-cup-50-pack/999GC9.html

They run about $4.59 / 50-pack -- a pretty good deal in comparison with other compostable plastic products, we found.

Very useful link.  Thanks!

[zack_adcock]

De nada.

They have a variety of other sizes (16 oz for beers, etc.) as well.

Shipping is a bit steep if you're only ordering a handful, though - apparently. We order hundreds of them so it wasn't so bad.

[Debbiefromtucson]

I will be ordering some stuff from here- let me know if anyone wants to go in with my order to save on shipping

[zack_adcock]

Incidentally, they are also one of the only places that we could find that reasonably sells in smaller quantities -- many locations required you to order cases of 1,000 units, which was a lot more than we needed / wanted to pay for. :-)

This sort of staggered information is what I get for typing during my few breaks from teaching throughout the day!

Good luck!

[erndog]

I think given the thinner air a cork would fly farther in town park that say, in Seattle.

Same reason a baseball flies farther in Coors Field than, say, AT&T park . . . ?  Right?

I don't know if the potato chip bag vs. sparkling wine bottle is an apples/apples comparison.  A potato chip bag expands at altitude because the pressure where it's packaged is greater than that at town park and the packaging can't contain the lower air pressure at altitude.   A sparkling wine bottle, is that, a bottle and contains the pressure difference better than the potato chip bag.

However, I think the lower pressure difference at town park is certainly responsible for an excess amount of flatuence in Telluride - given the potato chip bag scenario outlined above . . .