Anyone tried bottling sparkling wine using your keg?

[billc68]

I am making a Country Mist Raspberry White Zinfandel for my wife for the summer. I want to bottle half and carbonate half in my keg, then transfer to bottles. Should make a good summer wine cooler.

Any experience? advice? ideas?

Thanks

 

[Yooper]

That sound work fine. I'd use beer bottles and caps, since wine bottles and corks aren't designed to hold carbonation.

I'd try the BMBF (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/) to bottle and you should be fine.

 

[billc68]

That sound work fine. I'd use beer bottles and caps, since wine bottles and corks aren't designed to hold carbonation.

I'd try the BMBF (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/) to bottle and you should be fine.

I think I will find some actual champagne bottles. My local Wine and beer shop doesn't carry much but they do have champagne corks and cages. I may also get a few clear PET 500ml screw cap bottles too.

 

[roylee]

We make a red raspberry wine that I keg in a corny and force carb (on the low end of bubbly). works fine.

 

[Wade E]

I have done the sparkling wine and transfer to bottles using the link in Yoopers post, it works just fine. The colder you do the transfer the better though as C02 stays in suspension better at colder temps.

 

[bmckee56]

Get your bottles as cold as your sparkling wine is or you will have gushers. I use a counter pressure bottling unit and have had reasonable results. To get true champagne carbonation levels you need to go to about 40psi. This can be messy and you will most likely lose a ton of wine in the process. I know I did. I keep my pressure to a limit of 24psi in the keg and live with the lower level of carbonation and bubbles.

Champagne bottles are a neccessity at 40psi. Beer bottles will work for 24psi.

Good Luck.

Salute!