Keg to Bottle

[PilotBMP]

Is it possible to carbonate the beer in a keg then pour it off to a bottle and just cap it? Will it have the proper carbonation?

 

[pain++]

I've done it before, but only when I was taking the bottle to a friends for near-immediate consumption. I'd assume that the air in the bottle make the beer spoil after too long, but what do I know

 

[dantodd]

People typically use a beer gun for this. It has the ability to purge the bottle with CO2 and then slowly fills the bottle with beer. The slow fill and the flow path are both designed to keep as much CO2 as possible in solution so the beer stays carbonated.

You can also use a counter pressure filler which is similar but instead of slowly filling up the bottle at normal atmospheric pressure it actually pressurized the bottle so the beer stays under pressure until you remove the filler.

Both systems give good results. The beer gun is a bit simpler to use and also a bit more expensive.