ojaason
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I have intertap faucets with the growler filler attachment. Works great for growlers, but has anyone found a good way to fill a 12oz bottle from the tap?
I've done this for a few competitions. I make sure I chill my bottles in a starsan vessel in the fridge, I hook up my growler filler, then I put the bottle into a 1 gallon plastic pitcher and fill it up (no purging or anything of bottle but that wouldn't hurt). Usually there is a good bit of foam that still comes out of the bottle into the plastic pitcher. Once it's full up I slowly pull the tubing for the growler filler out while hitting it a few more times with beer to make sure the bottle is full enough. I then try and cap ontop of the foam to limit oxidation. It's a pain but it does work pretty well. Lastly, I drink the beer that spilled into the pitcher.
I have intertap faucets with the growler filler attachment. Works great for growlers, but has anyone found a good way to fill a 12oz bottle from the tap?
This is amazing. Where did you find this?
It's some norwegian guys which have made this. I don't know if it's available overseas.
https://www.tapcooler.no/en/accesso...e-filler-for-vent-matic-perlick-intertap-p-16
Looks like it's possible to order directly from them, but I'm not sure I trust the website
Sorry about the web site, we really should improve it. (Main focus has been on product development, e.g. the counter pressure can filler to be launched next month). If you don't trust us, you can trust PayPal Purchase Protection.https://www.tapcooler.no/en/accesso...e-filler-for-vent-matic-perlick-intertap-p-16
Looks like it's possible to order directly from them, but I'm not sure I trust the website
Sorry about the web site, we really should improve it. (Main focus has been on product development, e.g. the counter pressure can filler to be launched next month). If you don't trust us, you can trust PayPal Purchase Protection.
Cheers,
The Inventor
Good point. To get more foam, just increase the filling speed with the pressure relief valve. When using any counter pressure filler, purging the bottle with generous amounts of CO2 with the bottle sealed to the filler before filling and capping on foam, are the two important steps to avoid oxygen in the beer.I rather like the idea; however, one thing in the video was of concern to me. At the end of filling the bottle, there's still a void on top where there is no foam. I'd guess that's a mix of air and CO2, and thus, O2 is being admitted into the headspace. Is there a way to manipulate this so that doesn't occur? I want to cap on foam.
Good point. To get more foam, just increase the filling speed with the pressure relief valve. When using any counter pressure filler, purging the bottle with generous amounts of CO2 with the bottle sealed to the filler before filling and capping on foam, are the two important steps to avoid oxygen in the beer.
Around two weeks for untracked, slightly more for tracked.What kind of ship time from Norway to the mid United States?
Around two weeks for untracked, slightly more for tracked.
OK, I ordered it. Looking forward to it in about 2 weeks. I will, of course, review it here. Somewhere.
In now! [emoji846]I'm doing the same. Waiting till the ball lock accessory comes in.
I did that at first...but was wasting lots of beer when trying to purge the foam out of the bottles before capping. Maybe 25% waste, maybe a lot more.
Now I waste 0.01% it seems. I don't even use a drip tray/bucket/towel anymore when filling.
This is amazing. Where did you find this?
So I received my Tapcooler bottle filler last week. Today I had some time to try it out. Murphy’s Keg law allowed me to fill one bottle and then when filling bottle number two, the keg kicked. So my review is with a very small sample size.
I own a Last Straw Bottle filler so that is what I’m comparing to. The Tapcooler bottle filler is super easy to use. Easy to sanitize, easy to clean. Hardly any mess.
The silicone cap seals well around the bottle to make the counter pressure keep foaming to a minimum. I’ll use this bottle filler from now on.
Here is the bottle I filled. With some practice getting a perfect fill should be easy.
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