Bottling from keg

[CHRISTAFER]

I am going to the Raider this weekend and want to bring some homebrew whats the best way to take it from the keg to a bottle to share with friends...Keg is ready and currently drinking from it.

 

[HenryHill]

Use the BMBF.

BierMuncher's Bottle Filler. You'll need a cobra/picnic tap on your beer line, a piece of racking cane stuck into the cobra, that reaches to near the bottom of a bottle, while stuck thru a male or female rubber stopper. ( I use a FEMALE stopper.) You will need to drill an air relief hole in the stopper next to the cane's hole to allow air in bottle to get out.

Turn the pressure down to about 2 psi only for filling. Remember to release the pressure relief valve to vent the pressure between the 2 psi, and your previous serving pressure.

Cap on foam which will prevent oxidation/atmosphere above the beer. Fill to normal level.

 

[wilserbrewer]

I just fill bottles gently w/ a picnic tap w/ the bottles as horizontal as possible and cap on an inch or two of foam. Granted, this might not work for long term storage, but I don't have those issues. Anyone else do this? It's so easy I haven't bothered w/ anything else.

 

[bguzz]

Use the BMBF.

BierMuncher's Bottle Filler. You'll need a cobra/picnic tap on your beer line, a piece of racking cane stuck into the cobra, that reaches to near the bottom of a bottle, while stuck thru a male or female rubber stopper. ( I use a FEMALE stopper.) You will need to drill an air relief hole in the stopper next to the cane's hole to allow air in bottle to get out.

Turn the pressure down to about 2 psi only for filling. Remember to release the pressure relief valve to vent the pressure between the 2 psi, and your previous serving pressure.

Cap on foam which will prevent oxidation/atmosphere above the beer. Fill to normal level.

Does this work for long term bottling? Like for 6 months? or will it go bad using this method?

 

[sudbuster]

Use the BMBF.

BierMuncher's Bottle Filler. You'll need a cobra/picnic tap on your beer line, a piece of racking cane stuck into the cobra, that reaches to near the bottom of a bottle, while stuck thru a male or female rubber stopper. ( I use a FEMALE stopper.) You will need to drill an air relief hole in the stopper next to the cane's hole to allow air in bottle to get out.

Turn the pressure down to about 2 psi only for filling. Remember to release the pressure relief valve to vent the pressure between the 2 psi, and your previous serving pressure.

Cap on foam which will prevent oxidation/atmosphere above the beer. Fill to normal level.

Henry: once again you saved the day.... Great advice.

 

[lumpher]

Does this work for long term bottling? Like for 6 months? or will it go bad using this method?

i use this same method for short-term. works great for 3-4 days. any more, it goes flat

 

[sudbuster]

Does this work for long term bottling? Like for 6 months? or will it go bad using this method?

BeerMunchers method will bottle beer as well as a counter-pressure filler. I have used both. The beer will be safe and keep well as long as it is stored at cellar temps. But, try to use it up by the time it peaks for the style of beer you have brewed.

 

[arturo7]

If you are going to drink it the same day there is no need for an elaborate system. Just tilt the bottle to avoid foaming and cap it quickly.

 

[sudbuster]

arturo7; remember, dude.. there is still a thred to kill.......

 

[SweetSounds]

If I'm going to drink it inside of a week or 2, I'll just jam a piece of vinyl tubing on the tap that will reach the bottom of the bottle.
Open the tap, fill the bottle, cap, drink. (Just like buying a growler from your local brew haus)
If it's too foamy, drop the pressure in the keg so it fills slower. It's been my experience that as long as you are filling from the bottom, foaming is not much of a problem, even at serving pressure.

If it's going to be in bottles for a while (Months, not weeks) I'll jam a bottling wand in the end of a picnic tap, drop the pressure on the keg, and fill the bottle that way. When it's full I'll knock it on the counter to make it foam. When the foam hits the top of the bottle, cap it. This pushes all oxygen out of the bottle so the beer doesn't go skunk.

No special tools or CO2 tanks required.

 

[SevenFields]

It also helps if you chill the bottles before you fill them.

 

[grampska]

Yeah, for short term drinking I just do the tubing into the tap thing.

 

[rawlus]

anyone know if normal 3/16th" I.D. bev line fits inside a perlick pearl tap snugly? or discovered a way to bottle into growlers from the tap using a cane/stopper method without resorting to connecting a picnic tap & line & disconnect?
just looking for a straightforward and easy to pull off approach...
i've done it before with picnic tap, cane and stopper but never tried it with the tap itself.

 

[SweetSounds]

I just use 7/16" ID vinyl about 14" long and slide it over the the outside of the faucet. Never tried to jam it inside.

 

[hamiltont]

anyone know if normal 3/16th" I.D. bev line fits inside a perlick pearl tap snugly? or discovered a way to bottle into growlers from the tap using a cane/stopper method without resorting to connecting a picnic tap & line & disconnect?
just looking for a straightforward and easy to pull off approach...
i've done it before with picnic tap, cane and stopper but never tried it with the tap itself.

I use the bottle filler with a short piece of tubing on the end that fits over the spigot on the bottling bucket. It fits perfectly inside the Perlick 525's. I just drop the pressure to ~2 lbs. and bottle away, with a bucket underneath for the runoff of course.

 

[rawlus]

I use the bottle filler with a short piece of tubing on the end that fits over the spigot on the bottling bucket. It fits perfectly inside the Perlick 525's. I just drop the pressure to ~2 lbs. and bottle away, with a bucket underneath for the runoff of course.

great info... i tried an experiment tonight at serving pressure with a racking cane/stopper combo, too much pressure, too much foam, volcano erupt. heh.

will retry from the tap with serving pressure dialed way down next time, then depressurize the keg and see if i can just float the beer into the growler with minimal foaming....