Best way to bottle uncarbed beer from a keg

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Dr. Fedwell

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Finally got another co2 reg for the brewshop(kegerator is far from brew area). Want to bottle some specialty stuff that has been aging uncarbed. Any advice on this process? With a little help, some 1/4 " tubing will fit over the top of my bottling wand and the other end will fit on the bev QD. I'm sure I will have to set reg as low as possible to transfer. Should I use the wand? Just put the hose in the bottles and use the co2 valve to control flow? Is doing it under pressure a bad idea all together? Also, if I add priming sugar to a full keg, can I just purge any air with co2 and shake it? Or should I transfer to another keg that has the priming sugar (transfers are so easy now! Keg cleaning is still work though)?
 
I would use the wand and gravity to fill the bottles from the keg. If you pressurize with CO2, the beer will come out forcefully and wold be a hassle.

If you prime the whole keg, after bottling you will probably want to pressurize to something like 10 or 20 psi to seal the keg. Vent that a couple times to get the air out. Then just sit it aside for a couple of weeks at room temp while the sugar ferments and the beer carbs up.

No need to shake anything.
 

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