how would one bottle ALOT OF BOTTLES

[Cold_Steel]

I am trying to figure out how to bottle belgium style bottles with corks on a massive scale (big for me) around 240 bottles? Just curious if anyones got any good ideas or threads i missed. Oh and label.

 

[Cold_Steel]

oh and if someone says one at a time. I buying the first round

 

[conpewter]

Wow I'm not sure how to do this on a large scale other than have a bottling party, show 5 friends how to do it, have some beer ready and get going.

 

[BierMuncher]

...(big for me) around 240 bottles?...

A 240 bottle bottling session is big for anybody.

What's the occasion?

 

[ChshreCat]

Reproduce. Kids are great for mind-numbing repetitive chores.

 

[eschatz]

Friends... Lots of friends...

 

[Cold_Steel]

I found a thread in the dyi thats dealing with the same issue. Its funny my friend at the brew shop says he loses more homebrewers to bottling than anything else. hahaha

I am starting a nano brewery and I have 3 137 gallon fermenters to transfer over to bottles. I building the fermenters now so i dont have pictures and when i say building. I mean i am saving up the money hahaha. I close though.

 

[beerthirty]

I would up the size of the bottles to say...... 5 gallon, and use the unbreakable kind.

 

[Cold_Steel]

just for poops and giggles. I did price up growlers to see the cost. Yeah 10,000 grand later. Back to the drawing board.

 

[ChshreCat]

You don't want to try bottling in growlers anyway.

*BOOM*
*splash*

 

[beerthirty]

240 bottles= 240x750=180000ml/1000= 180litres/4=45 metric gallons /5=9. So 10 kegs(5 gallon unbreakable bottles) should hold it for you. 10x25=$250 in cornies.

 

[Orangevango]

Do you have a kegging setup? Im not going to say keg the beer, but here is what I would do.

• Procure a champagne corker.
• Get a corny keg disconnect and attach it to beer line with a bottling wand on the end.
• Put as many bottles as you can in the dishwasher to sanitize them.
• rig up the bottle filler on a rigid stand to one side of your dishwasher
• soak the corks in sanitizer as normal and put them in a large bowl close at hand
• put all the beer into corny kegs (after purging with CO2) with priming sugar and yeast (if you are re-yeasting) and purge with CO2 again before thoroughly shaking them to mix in the yeast and sugar.
• use 2 or 3 psi of CO2 to push the beer into bottles through the bottle filler.

so the process would go like this.
Stoop down and grab a bottle, fill it, place it on corker, load corker, cork while you are loading the corker with one hand you can set up the beer to fill, it would be great to rig up a kind of spring loaded stand to allow the beer to fill itself so you can use both hands for corking. A second person would be needed to do the wire cages unless you leave them un-caged until you do an entire dishwasher's worth of bottles. You could then wire them while the dishwasher ran its course and the bottles cooled.

A better way to do it would involve 3 people: a sanitizer that works a bottle filler attached to a a bucket of star san (fills a bottle with sanitizer, then dumps its contents into the bucket to be reused, being sure to submerge the mouth of the bottle). The filler who fills the bottles from the kegs. and the corker/cager who corks, cages, and boxes the bottles.

 

[de_ronde]

You have to buy an Italian Champagne floor corker. Champagne Floor Corker :: Midwest Supplies Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies

Collect loads of Belgian bottles from local taverns, and have a bottling party.