Oxegen problem filling bottles from keg.

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KilhavenBrew

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If I fill bottles from a keg and cap them, how long will they last? I wonder if anyone has a method to allow them to last a longer time. I am talking 6 months in a bottle after coming from a keg. But knowing oxygen will be there, I cannot think of anyway this will work.

I do not want to buy 10 kegs and store them all. But I want to brew 10 batches of beer and try them all on tap before putting them in storage. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to fill bottles from a keg and get high quality results? Meaning, no oxygenation to ruin the beer.

Thanks for any experience you can share on this matter.
 
Look for the "we don't need no stinking beer gun" thread, or something like that.

I also flush the bottles with co2 before filling. I have a cheap blow gun, like used with an air compressor, that I hook up to one of the co2 lines off my manifold.

Flush the bottles counter pressure fill, and then cap on foam.

It works well for me.

Edit:
Blow gun looks like this:
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200324799_200324799
 
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