ksbrain
Well-Known Member
I promised a guy at work that I'd bring him in a bottle of each of my beers that's on tap right now. So I had to actually bottle it tonight. I use a simple tube crammed onto the end of my faucet to bottle normally. Usually I fill a used soda bottle, like a 20-ounce plastic coke bottle. It works great, I don't have to turn down the pressure or anything.
I guess the opening on a standard 12-ounce glass beer bottle is a bit tighter than the soda bottles, because it didn't work at all tonight!
I figured I'd do a twelve pack, with three of each of the four I have on tap, as long as I was bottling one of each, might as well do three of each. And I thought glass would make sense then.
Turns out the hose that fits over the faucets basically makes a seal with the neck of the bottle, so pressure builds up and spurts foam back out the tube and through the faucet, making a huge mess and resulting in short fills.
GRR!
Just venting, really, but I think from now on I might bottle off a six pack at kegging time in glass, or else just stick with the plastic bottles.
Time to RDWHAHB
I guess the opening on a standard 12-ounce glass beer bottle is a bit tighter than the soda bottles, because it didn't work at all tonight!
I figured I'd do a twelve pack, with three of each of the four I have on tap, as long as I was bottling one of each, might as well do three of each. And I thought glass would make sense then.
Turns out the hose that fits over the faucets basically makes a seal with the neck of the bottle, so pressure builds up and spurts foam back out the tube and through the faucet, making a huge mess and resulting in short fills.
GRR!
Just venting, really, but I think from now on I might bottle off a six pack at kegging time in glass, or else just stick with the plastic bottles.
Time to RDWHAHB
