Bottling from a keg?

[sparty78]

My buddy asked to brew a couple batches for his wedding, I'm not sure I have enough time to carbonate in bottles. Is it possible to force carbonate in a keg and then bottle?


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[shoreman]

Yes you can do that I'd probably pick up a bottling gun or you can make one out of tubing - if you do a search you will find it. Why not just serve kegs?

 

[kcmobrewer]

I have a blichmann beer gun. Love that thing. Easily one of the best brewing investments I've made.

 

[ph0ngwh0ng]

My buddy asked to brew a couple batches for his wedding, I'm not sure I have enough time to carbonate in bottles. Is it possible to force carbonate in a keg and then bottle?


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We don't need no stinking beergun!

 

[IslandLizard]

When you transfer the beer from the keg make sure the keg is carbonated and ice cold (34°F) and your bottles are frozen. This prevents foaming. It helps having another person cap them immediately.

 

[Hello]

When you transfer the beer from the keg make sure the keg is carbonated and ice cold (34°F) and your bottles are frozen. This prevents foaming. It helps having another person cap them immediately.

This is the best advice (after getting a beer gun or making one). I was trying to fill growlers with a homemade beer gun and doing everything to prevent 1/2 a growler of foam. I even turned my pressure down to 3 PSI, bled the kegs and still had issues. Then I took clean growlers, dunked them into star san, put them in the freezer upside down and filled frozen growlers (they're slippery so be careful). Any issues I have with foam are now entirely due to forgetting to bleed the keg, which I can fix.

Make sure your buddy comes over to help brew and help bottle.

 

[fantomlord]

We don't need no stinking beergun!

^that

When you transfer the beer from the keg make sure the keg is carbonated and ice cold (34°F) and your bottles are frozen. This prevents foaming. It helps having another person cap them immediately.

I've not had issues filling from my keg (~40°) into non-cooled (~65°) bottles. and yes, it does help to have a helper.