rmleer
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I discovered a hack that enables you to slowly poor beer from your corny keg/picnic tap at a slower rate to fill growlers/bottles without having to purge the keg to lower your psi from CO2.
I came up with this technique after learning about the Perlick 650 that allows you to control the flow rate right off of the faucet while maintaining a higher psi.
The Perlick would be good for continuous pours from a kegerator or keezer. I often fill my beer from my kegerator with attached picnic taps so a roughly $80 investment per tap doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I found that using a cheap "C" clamp from a hardware store works just as well for me on a basically free cost because I have some of them lying around the house.
What I do is, with my keezer open I clamp the liquid tubing about 3 inches away from the poppet attached to the keg to the point that I know there is no flow. I will slowly loosen the clamp until it is flowing at the desired speed!
I used this technique to fill a couple batches of bottles for a local homebrew competition and I got minimum spilling and foaming. I actually got a silver in the competition so there must not have been any carbonation issues.
Give it a try and let me know what you think!
I came up with this technique after learning about the Perlick 650 that allows you to control the flow rate right off of the faucet while maintaining a higher psi.
The Perlick would be good for continuous pours from a kegerator or keezer. I often fill my beer from my kegerator with attached picnic taps so a roughly $80 investment per tap doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I found that using a cheap "C" clamp from a hardware store works just as well for me on a basically free cost because I have some of them lying around the house.
What I do is, with my keezer open I clamp the liquid tubing about 3 inches away from the poppet attached to the keg to the point that I know there is no flow. I will slowly loosen the clamp until it is flowing at the desired speed!
I used this technique to fill a couple batches of bottles for a local homebrew competition and I got minimum spilling and foaming. I actually got a silver in the competition so there must not have been any carbonation issues.
Give it a try and let me know what you think!