Bottling with keg

[mrbugawkagawk]

i am using the "we dont need no stinking beer gun" from the diy sticky thread and i am having a problem with foaming. I am at 7 psi and every time i put the beer in the bottle from the keg there is way too much foam. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem

tom

 

[ChshreCat]

Are you chilling your bottles?

 

[velotech]

I've had to lower the pressure down to 3 or 4 for some beers. It takes a while to fill, but no foam. Also make sure you have a long line between your keg & gun: 5 or 6 feet.

 

[Budzu]

Use less than 5 psi if possible and position the bottle a couple feet above the keg. Make sure your bottles are very very cold.. I sanitize them with star san then fill the bottles with CO2, then loose cap and throw in the freezer for a few minutes. Also make sure your bottle filler has a seal that you can control with your hand, to keep the bottle filling nice and slow. I just did 8 bottles tonight and almost no foaming from a keg at 40 F.

Cheers and good luck!

 

[BierMuncher]

• Rinse your bottles in cold water.
• Make sure the end of your cane has the end cut at an angle.
• Close your gas valve, bleed the excess pressure from the keg, then set your PSI to 4-5.
• Make sure your stopper is pushed tightly onto the bottle so as to control the flow.
• Run a few ounces into a waste container nearby until the liquid is flowing clearly...then immediately place in the bottle and start filling.

If you're doing all of this, your beer may just be over carbonated and you'll have to live with some foam overflow.

 

[mrbugawkagawk]

i have yet to get my kegerator working, so the beer is room temp. so that is probably part of my problem i would guess.

 

[ChshreCat]

I don't think that's going to work. Even if you fill the bottles without them foaming over, once you chill them they aren't going to have much carb.

 

[RogerMcAllen]

How much are you pressurizing the bottles before letting them fill?

I was bottling my saison from a 15 psi keg into warm bottles and was having a ton of foaming issues because I was letting the pressure vent too early.

I had the best luck plugging up the bottle completely, opening the tap, and letting it pressurize until nothing would flow in. Then I gently let bled off a bit of pressure until the bottle filled.

I also used one of the universal drilled carboy stoppers turned upside down so that they stopper fits over the top of the bottle instead of in it. This way even if I shot a bit of foam it went down into my waste container and not up into my face.

 

[BierMuncher]

Yeah...no...yeah....sorry...

Transferring room temp beer is never a good idea. That CO2 is just itching to jump out of warm beer.

 

[Arkador]

Transferring room temp beer is never a good idea. That CO2 is just itching to jump out of warm beer.

Chill it, and go very low pressure. I use my BMBG at about 2PSI

 

[IrregularPulse]

Ditto, I also do about 2-3 psi. Just enough to push it up.