Homemade Beer Gun Woes

[stepcg6]

Hey everyone,

I've been following this thread for awhile now, and I see some people with fantastic success in bottling from the keg with this method.

Unfortunately, I'm not having that same success. It's really frustrating and I ask for your help before I purchase a beer gun. You guys are my last hope!

I've followed all these instructions and recommendations exactly. I have 10 feet of tubing that connects my beer out to the racking cane, made per the instructions. I have my beer carbed to the correct psi, then bled off and bottled at around 3 psi. I sanitize and freeze all bottles tubing, and other bottling parts.

I'm still getting up to half the bottle full of foam!

My beer lines are super foamy when they out of the bottling line...and yet the kegerator itself works fantastically with no issues.

I even made a video of my troubles

[ame]http://youtu.be/SIkVwElE0PE[/ame]

Please everyone, you're my last hope! Unless I can solve this problem, I'll be purchasing a beer gun. I need to have good consistent bottles for competition, and this method seems to be anything but consistent.

Thanks in advance!

 

[scubasteve03]

Your technique looks fine to me. The problem is the foam in your lines. What size tubing are you using for your picnic tap? The video makes it look pretty big. My suggestion would be to use some smaller tubing.

 

[mikescooling]

Did you bleed off the pressure in the keg? Is the tubing cold? I can see you have way to much pressure in the line, it should not pop like that..... Make everything cold, line, bottles, kegs; then purge that line of beer foam, so their is only liquid beer, then when you do it next time you have to burp the bung and not let the pressure build up.