Question for you guys:
Two days ago I filled up two Sierra Nevada style bottles with this beer gun method. I sanitized the bottles in ice chilled water so they were nice and cold, and filled these two bottles with beer. The beer had been carbed for at least a month, so I bled off the pressure, set it to about 5 and filled the bottles slowly.
In case this matters, I bottled two beers, one with more headspace than I'd like, one with the correct amount of headspace. I opened the one with more headspace, as if it was ok I wanted to send the correctly filled one to my sister. I capped on foam and chilled in the fridge for a day. When I tried them yesterday, I felt like the carbonation was a little low in the body (though a good amount of bubbles), and little to no head. The head was also more pale and bubbly than the creamy rich head I get from the tap.
Any suggestions? Did the headspace affect anything? Do I need to let the bottles chill for longer than a day? Anyone notice anything incorrect in my setup?
Thanks for the help! I'd really like this to work because I get a lot of rich head from my kegorator and this didn't seem to replicate as well.