How much force does it take to break a glass SoBe bottle?

Answer 1

I remember a friend had a wine bottle opener that inserted a hollow needle through the cork into the air space above the wine. Then the user worked a small pump above the bottle's cork. As pressure inside the bottle built, the cork began to rise out of the bottle. I had a cork crumble when I tried to use a corkscrew extractor. I attached a longer than normal inflation needle to a tankless air compressor. What was left of the cork popped right out without leaving any crumbled cork in the wine. So, I made a long inflation needle for a bicycle tire pump and tried it out on a new bottle of wine with a full length synthetic cork. The bicycle pump has a pressure gauge. The pressure registered 80 psi. just before the cork began to come out quite speedily. This was a standard glass wine bottle, not a bottle for champagne or sparkling wine. I looked around the internet and found some have conducted tests and determined a 2 liter (plastic) soft drink bottle will burst around 120 psi. I would think a normal glass wine bottle would be stronger than a plastic 2 liter soft drink bottle.

Answer 2

i'd say alot, since it's a glass bottle. :]]]