Carb bottles Without Sugar

[HaGGardSmurf]

Hey guys, im wondering how I could carb my beer without using sugar but still bottling.

The reason I want to do this is so after fermenting is done I can run the beer through a filter to remove any extra yeast and sediment. I was thinking about buying a keg and siphoning filtered beer into it and then adding Co2 for a few days then fill bottles, but I dont know if a bottling wand for a keg exists or if this is even a good idea.

Really, I just want carbonated beer faster and with little to no sediment left in the bottles.

 

[Yooper]

Hey guys, im wondering how I could carb my beer without using sugar but still bottling.

The reason I want to do this is so after fermenting is done I can run the beer through a filter to remove any extra yeast and sediment. I was thinking about buying a keg and siphoning filtered beer into it and then adding Co2 for a few days then fill bottles, but I dont know if a bottling wand for a keg exists or if this is even a good idea.

Really, I just want carbonated beer faster and with little to no sediment left in the bottles.

It's a lot of trouble and expense for sediment free bottles, but yes, it works very well to do what you propose. That's exactly what commercial breweries do with filtered beer.

You'd need at least two kegs and a filtering setup, and a place to keep the beer cold (warm carbonated beer foams) in the kegs, and not move them so the sediment settles. Then just use a Blichmann beergun to fill the bottles.

Or, use a poorman's beergun like this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=24678

 

[blizz81]

You could carbonate in a keg and then bottle from that, but you'll need something to keep the keg cold so the CO2 can be absorbed into solution, and by that point, you're pretty much 90% of the way to dispensing via keg.

 

[HaGGardSmurf]

Excellent, for the time being I will probably just keep doing what I'm doing with the primary in the vessle, and secondary in the bottles. 95% of my beer is consumed by me but the 5% that I take to friends and family thats the stuff that usually gets sediment mixed into it from transport.

I'll be buying a new house in the near future so I'll be keeping an eye out for a house I can have a heated brewing room where I can create this setup, and have a keg fridge for the carbonating.