Bottling

[voodoochild7]

Just bottled my first batch it tasted pretty good. Things went fairly smooth except for one thing the bottler is used is one of the types where you stick it in the bottom of the bottle and it depresses a valve then the pressure of the beer in the tube puts it back. The valve got stuck every so often and the rubber gasket inside came loose and I had to control flow with the little plastic thing on the siphon tube to stop the flow. Has anyone else had this problem and is there a better filler I can get that doesn't do this? This is of the sprinless variety by the way.

 

[OtherWhiteMeat]

Seems like I got the same filler, although I diddnt think it had a rubber seal in it. Mine has worked great since I got it. Maybe you just got a bad filler.
Try something like this it may work better.
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products/ProdByID.aspx?ProdID=4738

 

[Truble]

I had the same gravity filler (springless). It came with my kit. I didn't even use it after trying it out-I bought a spring tip filler for a couple bucks. I bottled for the first time last weekend, and it went very very smoothly <<knocks on wood>>. I had tested the gravity filler with water when I got the kit so that I knew how to use everything, and was not impressed. it didn't seal up tight, and if you bumped the tip on the way out of the bottle, it would release beer. At least, that is what I found in my test.

 

[Orfy]

Mine drips, I just put a bucket under it.

 

[OtherWhiteMeat]

I bottle mine on the dishwasher door so all the spilled beer goes in the dishwasher when im done. Then i put all the bottles in the dishwasher on the rinse cycle and rinse them clean before i box them.

 

[sause]

I use a spring tip one, I like it. No spills if you keep an extra bottle handy at all times.