Beer Foams While Bottling - Is It Flat?

[whovous]

Yesterday was my first try with the Last Straw beer gun. The beer was very cold and the bottles were ice cold, but it all foamed like crazy. I wound up having to top the bottles off with beer poured from a glass.

I was up against a deadline to bottle for a competition. What is the likelihood I've just entered some very flat beer in this competition?

 

[MarineDwg9]

Did bottle any extra? If not, I would bottle one or two with your beer gun just like you did for the comp, let it sit for a while, and then pop the top. That should give you a pretty good idea of what the judges will get.

 

[Soulshine2]

How cold is cold? Although I'm still very new to this, I'm wondering why youre not bottling at room temperature. I would think that bottling at anything less (especially a substantially less temp)could result in bursting /bottle bombs while bottle carbing should the temperature actually reach usual room temp (70*F). How soon is your competition ? Did you bottle up enough to maybe do a pre-comp check of a few of your bottles a day or so in advance to make sure theyre ready before you transport the lot and find out the hard way ,that your suspicion is correct.

 

[whovous]

I should have been more clear. I was bottling from a keg at 35F. The bottles were straight from the freezer. The beer was decently carbed and poured well into a glass from my Pluto gun.

I did not connect the CO2 to the Last Straw. Does that matter?

The beers are already delivered to the competition

 

[Packerjh]

My first couple bottles are always fishy then it settles down. Until the lines get cold it will foam. I also chill my bottles but when bottling a case or so I can't chill them all so I sanitize in cool water and star san. I do drop the serving pressure to around 6-8 psi. After the first couple bottles I have almost no foam and perfectly full bottles.

Fwiw I tried capping a couple of bottles that were half foam... Those half full bottles rested in the fridge for a couple weeks and I opened them... They were just fine regarding carbonation... Was an interesting experiment.

 

[Packerjh]

Oh.... I use the last straw filler also

 

[whovous]

Yeah, I expected the fizz at the start and drew a full glass of beer before going to the bottles, as I saw in a video review. The foaming never stopped and I wasted a LOT of beer trying. I wound up pouring from the glass and topping off the bottles. I have two extra bottles to take to a friend this weekend, so I guess I will learn then if they are flat. Judging is Friday as well, so we may all learn at the same time.

I wish I understood why it foamed this way but did not foa, when I used the regular tap to pour to a glass.