I'm listening to The Brewing Network Sunday Show with Mike Mraz, talking about using a keg basically as a bottling bucket. Procedure, in a nutshell:
Purge a clean, sanitized keg with CO2
Rack beer into keg
Add boiled priming solution
Close keg, hit with CO2 to seal
Roll keg to mix
Relieve pressure from keg
Apply ~2psi from regulator
Shove sanitized bottling wand into sanitized picnic tap
Open picnic tap to locked-open
Fill and cap bottles!
Apparent advantages are more even mixing, less oxidation potential, and convenience. I just bottled my 3-gallon extract batch this way, and I am completely sold on it, as long as the batch can fit in a keg.
Purge a clean, sanitized keg with CO2
Rack beer into keg
Add boiled priming solution
Close keg, hit with CO2 to seal
Roll keg to mix
Relieve pressure from keg
Apply ~2psi from regulator
Shove sanitized bottling wand into sanitized picnic tap
Open picnic tap to locked-open
Fill and cap bottles!
Apparent advantages are more even mixing, less oxidation potential, and convenience. I just bottled my 3-gallon extract batch this way, and I am completely sold on it, as long as the batch can fit in a keg.