Flat beer with my counter pressure bottle filler

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sareinhart

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Folks -

I got a counter pressure bottling wand. Two valves at the top. One for beer. The other for CO2. I have a 2 stage regulator. I have the CO2 from one side going into the keg. The other to the CO2 leg of my bottling wand.

Beer is pretty well carbonated. Almost over carbonated.

Process:
Fill bottle with air. Burp the CO2 out. Do it a couple times. To purge Oxygen.
Open the beer valve. I don't get a lot of foam. Let it fill. I let the cork slightly loose in the bottle so I get a slow fill.
Yank the bottling wand out. Cap it right away.

I can't stress enough. I don't get a lot of foam and I don't leave a lot of head space. About as much as you would see in commercially bottled beer.

Any thoughts as to why my beer is pretty flat when I pour it out in a glass? is this just normal?
 
You're losing all your carbonation in your lines. Turn the regulator down to 2 PSI, disconnect your gas line, blow off the extra CO2 in the keg, hook your gas line back up and then try bottling from it.
 

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