leavitt87
Active Member
Counter pressure bottle fillers work great but are a PITA if you want to fill some bottles from a keg in a kegerator (in my situation anyway). Unless I want to leave the fridge door open, I have to disconnect the liquid & gas disconnects from the keg, pull the keg out of the kegerator, hook up the bottle filler, fill the bottles, then hook the keg back up and put back in the fridge.
I usually don't mind doing this but I was in a hurry last night and had to think of a quick way to fill some bottles to take with me. First I dropped the pressure in the CO2 tank to 4-5 psi and tried to just fill the bottles by pouring directly from the faucet, although I knew what was going to happen. All foam.
Then I saw a carboy cap sitting on the shelf and thought, "I wonder..."
So I put the longer of the tubes on the cap into the faucet. Lined up the hole in the cap with the bottle opening, made sure to hold the bottle tightly against the cap so I could maintain the pressure in the bottle and opened the faucet. (Of course everything is sanitized first)
NO FOAM!!!
There was about an inch of foam that I capped over. Two hours later, still pressure & carbonation in the bottle.
I'm not sure how the carbonation would hold up for long term storage. Maybe I'll sacrifice a bottle to science.
I've posted some pics on photobucket: EASY BOTTLING
I usually don't mind doing this but I was in a hurry last night and had to think of a quick way to fill some bottles to take with me. First I dropped the pressure in the CO2 tank to 4-5 psi and tried to just fill the bottles by pouring directly from the faucet, although I knew what was going to happen. All foam.
Then I saw a carboy cap sitting on the shelf and thought, "I wonder..."
So I put the longer of the tubes on the cap into the faucet. Lined up the hole in the cap with the bottle opening, made sure to hold the bottle tightly against the cap so I could maintain the pressure in the bottle and opened the faucet. (Of course everything is sanitized first)
NO FOAM!!!
There was about an inch of foam that I capped over. Two hours later, still pressure & carbonation in the bottle.I'm not sure how the carbonation would hold up for long term storage. Maybe I'll sacrifice a bottle to science.
I've posted some pics on photobucket: EASY BOTTLING
