Brocster
Well-Known Member
Just wondering if this sounds plausible...
I almost exclusively keg, but once in a while I need to bottle. Usually it is for a friend that is splitting half of a 10 gallon batch, my half going to a keg, his/her half to bottles (and naturally carbing the bottles).
Here is my thought, instead of transferring beer to a bottling bucket, stirring in the sugar solution (DME or corn) and then letting gravity take over through the spigot and bottle filler....
How about transferring to a corny, adding sugar solution, put about 5 psi on the keg and fill bottles with the ghetto racking cane I use for bottling carbed beer attached to a picnic tap? Cap and store as normal?
Seems like less chance for problems with oxygen, a more flexible filling station because you are not stuck to one location under a bucket, and easier cleaning, since you can just quickly rinse with some oxyclean and water, and then fill with a little starsan/water mix (which I usually leave in my kegs when empty anyways.
thoughts?
Thanks!
I almost exclusively keg, but once in a while I need to bottle. Usually it is for a friend that is splitting half of a 10 gallon batch, my half going to a keg, his/her half to bottles (and naturally carbing the bottles).
Here is my thought, instead of transferring beer to a bottling bucket, stirring in the sugar solution (DME or corn) and then letting gravity take over through the spigot and bottle filler....
How about transferring to a corny, adding sugar solution, put about 5 psi on the keg and fill bottles with the ghetto racking cane I use for bottling carbed beer attached to a picnic tap? Cap and store as normal?
Seems like less chance for problems with oxygen, a more flexible filling station because you are not stuck to one location under a bucket, and easier cleaning, since you can just quickly rinse with some oxyclean and water, and then fill with a little starsan/water mix (which I usually leave in my kegs when empty anyways.
thoughts?
Thanks!