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10-25-2007, 09:43 PM
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One day I'll fill a keg. This day is not that day.
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5 gallon [US, liquid] = 640 ounce [US, liquid]
Last edited by El_Borracho; 10-25-2007 at 10:18 PM.
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10-25-2007, 10:00 PM
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...My Junk is Ugly...
Join Date: Jan 2007
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You're getting us a bit  there El B...
You're liable to get more replies and better help starting a new thread with your secondary to bottle questons. Like Cheese said, this topic deals with bottling from finished kegs of beer. |
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10-25-2007, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by KitrGy
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Where did you get the stainless tubing to make that?
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10-25-2007, 10:22 PM
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...My Junk is Ugly...
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I thinks he's gone.
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10-26-2007, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BierMuncher
But it's the moving the cane fro bottle to bottle that drips everywhere.
At the end of a 12 pack (all I can fit in a bucket), I end up with the better part of a 1/2 cup of beer at the bottom.
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I cut my cane down to about 14" of straight tube, and it hardly drips at all. In fact, when I'm done I have to pull the tube from the tap or it just sits in the tube.
If you can't picture what's happening, think about one of those little hamster water bottles that keeps the fluid in my vacuum action. Or when you pick up drink with a straw by putting your finger over the top. |
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10-26-2007, 01:35 PM
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I built a cpbf years ago, and like someone else said at the start of the thread, I've since turned it into "spare parts". It was just too much of a pita to keep clean. I started using the picnic tap and plastic wand simply as a way to get kegged beer into growlers and swing tops for transportation to partys and what not. For long term storage I started flooding the bottles first with CO2 from a valve and tee off of my gas line before crimping a hard cap on top and it works great. As the bottle is filled the CO2 keeps the beer away from any oxygen (in theory). At the end of the fill as I'm removing the "wand" from the bottle I fill that extra bit of head space with a quick spray of foam from the tip and slam a cap on the bottle. After the bit of foamover subsides I end up with about 3/4" of space under the caps. Takes a bit of practice, but the bottles keep for months and costs about $3 to bottle off a keg.
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10-26-2007, 01:49 PM
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Mmm...beer.
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Muncher, I meant to post in this thread a while back - AWESOME IDEA!
I'm now jealous of your DIY Beer Gun and sorry I spent cash on the Blichmann (Bling-mann) version. I like yours way better, and I might have to make one just for the hell of it!
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10-26-2007, 09:13 PM
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This is exacly the thread i needed as I am planning on a sweet Raspberry "Lambic" (another thread) and I cant have it naturally condition as I plan to pasteurize to stop fermentation at the sweetness I want.
Perfect.
Thanks.
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10-26-2007, 09:23 PM
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Got all the required parts today from my LHBS:
Cornelius liquid QD, 4 feet of 1/4" ID tubing, cobra tap, short racking cane, little drilled rubber stopper, and a bottle of Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout - all for $24, including the $2.25 they overcharged me but wasn't worth going back to argue about.
Can't wait to try it!
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