Given the choice, for bottling a Doppelbock...

[D-Train]

Would you keg, force carb, and then bottle using a BMBF-like setup (Biermuncher bottle filler), or would you go the old priming sugar, bottling bucket, and wand type setup? One of the goals is to allow some graceful aging. I'm fairly confident with my keg bottling technique (cap on foam, good sanitation, etc.) but I've never waited longer than a month to consume a beer bottled this way and I'd like this batch to last up to a year.

 

[JAG107]

This might not be much help, but the one doppel I've made so far I bottled from the priming bucket (I haven't kegged anything... yet), and it came out beautiful. Aged in the chest freezer at 39F for a month til I tried the first one. I left them out for 14 days in 70-75F temp. before putting the bottles in the chest. Carbonation is perfect.