I'm fed up with bottling!

[Beezy]

I don't mind bottling. I like to drink it down to a 6 pack then keep the last few around for a while. I still have two from my first batch. I just bought a keg for 20 bucks and I am getting a tank for free from a buddy. I am trying to do it el cheapo. Bottles are nice to have still. Will do both. Eventually fill bottles from the keg. That makes the most sense.

 

[scoundrel]

I'm pretty new at this, 55 gals brewed so far. Thing about kegs is how many kegs does one generally have? I really like having a wide range of beers to chose from. Right now I have a choice of a BB Red, Coopers Lager, Dark, Real Ale, MB Kolch, with MB Irish, MB Christmas racked and MB Belgien and Mild Brown on deck. What about gift beers? Do ya'll bottle a few before kegging to give?

I have 10 kegs. 4 on tap, 2 cold on deck, 4 warm on deck and 2 for some upcoming Brett beers. I usually bottle once the kegs are carbed and aged a bit. If you get perlick taps you can bottle from them with a foot of hose.

 

[scoundrel]

I don't mind bottling. I like to drink it down to a 6 pack then keep the last few around for a while. I still have two from my first batch. I just bought a keg for 20 bucks and I am getting a tank for free from a buddy. I am trying to do it el cheapo. Bottles are nice to have still. Will do both. Eventually fill bottles from the keg. That makes the most sense.

I hear ya, but when you only have to clean one big "bottle" instead of 54 little ones, kegging becomes very appealing. El Cheapo is fine as long as your kegging. You can always bottle from kegs and the lack of yeast sediment is always a plus. I can't tell you how many times snarky people say "oh homebrew always has $h!t at the bottom of the bottle", and I give them a 4 month aged Dubbel I bottled from a keg and they're floored by the presentation and quality. It makes it all worthwhile.

 

[rico567]

ah, kegging!

as I wash, fill, and cap approximately 50 bottles per batch, I often finding myself wishing I could do everything at once, one clean step, and be done with it, instead of taking 2 hours to siphon, add carbing sugar, washing bottles, filling them, topping them off, capping them....ugh!

but, bottling is pretty cheap. I have bottles. caps are cheap. if I started kegging...that's not gonna be cheap! gotta buy kegs, plus taps, and any filling equipment. CO2 tanks to avoid beer going flat, then I need a kegerator to keep it cool, since I cant fit a keg in my fridge (and keep the wife happy)

plus, if I keg it, it'll be too easy to drink it too fast! just go over and fill 'er up! As it is now, I could easily drink 4 or 5 bottles of beer a day --stay at home dad... have one at lunch, one or 2 through the afternoon, one at dinner, maybe one later at night-- and not ever get drunk, or have a problem, but my own conscience (thanks to doctors, and society's general consensus that someone who has 4 or 5 drinks a day has a problem) tells me that is too much beer to drink in one day, and I find myself having to ration how many bottles I drink per day or I'll go through an entire batch of beer rather quickly.

The first part contains the reasons I decided quite a while ago not to keg.

 

[pappagio]

In the middle of building a keggerator myself. Kegs- Be sure to ask around if anyone has a friend at pepsi or a beverage distributor (a 5 dollar handshake goes a long way). I've been cruising EBAY and finding a lot of good deals on kegging equip.

 

[Dougie63]

I dont mind bottling either but still want to move up to kegging. I have a pretty good system down bottling tree and put my bottling bucket on top of fridge and bottle on the counter next to it no bending maybe takes me an hour so what I can keep bottles for a long time

 

[unionrdr]

I have a large old printer stand I now use for fermenter stand/equipment storage to the right of my comp hutch. I set the bottling bucket on that when I'm bottling. My videos in my profile show my sit down system. It makes bottling a pleasant part of brewing. Takes about 1.5 hours set up to take down.