Keg to bottle

[edie]

from what i've read it's not going to happen but.... going to a friends house this evening and would love to take a few bottles of the dunkelweizen we have in the keg currently. don't have any of the equipment i've read that i need to do this but just hoping maybe there is a way to get a few bottles capped this evening. i guess i loose carbination to just pull a pitcher and then siphon into some bottles?

 

[HalfPint]

from what i've read it's not going to happen but.... going to a friends house this evening and would love to take a few bottles of the dunkelweizen we have in the keg currently. don't have any of the equipment i've read that i need to do this but just hoping maybe there is a way to get a few bottles capped this evening. i guess i loose carbination to just pull a pitcher and then siphon into some bottles?

This is what I do if I'm going to someones house and want to take a sixer. Spray some starsan up your tap (while it's closed) and let sit for a minute or two (sanitizes the inside of the tap). Then, I unhook the gas line from the keg, and purge Co2 till it's around 3-5 psi inside of the keg. I then just fill sanitized bottles straight from the tap as if I were filling a pint (if you have the pressure in your keg low enough, it won't foam too much). When the pressure gets too low, just snap the QD back on for a second and put a bit of gas in the keg and unhook the QD. Alternatively, you could just purge and set your regulator to 3 psi, but that's a pain with my system b/c it's behind the kegs in the mini fridge. I wouldn't recommend this method for long term storage, but since you're going to drink all of the beers you bottle in one day, it's no big deal. I've probably done this method 50 times, and have never had a problem. You simply can't get an infected beer in one day, so it's not even a sanitation issue you're worried about, it's more of trying to keep your beer carbd while getting it into the bottles which is accomplished by keeping your pressure/foaming down to a minimum.

 

[edie]

thanks - we'll it a try

 

[steinsato]

Halfpint has a good idea there, I usually just fill the bottles straight from the tap but I'm going to try his method next time. I think dropping the keg pressure would help quite a bit with the foaming.

 

[HalfPint]

Halfpint has a good idea there, I usually just fill the bottles straight from the tap but I'm going to try his method next time. I think dropping the keg pressure would help quite a bit with the foaming.

Yeah, it will take a bit longer because of the slow stream, but it's so much more effective.

 

[Scut_Monkey]

this method works for a growler seems like a good idea for bottles too.

 

[JonK331]

I just use a cobra tap and shove the tube from a bottling wand inside (a piece of vinyl tubing works also but takes up more volume in the bottle). THis way you fill from the bottom. Make sure to cap on the foam on not on dead space. Sanitize everything first with star san and a spray bottle as said above. Sanitize bottles as usual.

I bottled a beer for a brewer friend with this method that he forgot about in the back of his fridge for 3 weeks. The beer was not oxidized and still had plenty of carbonation.

 

[HalfPint]

I just use a cobra tap and shove the tube from a bottling wand inside (a piece of vinyl tubing works also but takes up more volume in the bottle). THis way you fill from the bottom. Make sure to cap on the foam on not on dead space. Sanitize everything first with star san and a spray bottle as said above. Sanitize bottles as usual.

I bottled a beer for a brewer friend with this method that he forgot about in the back of his fridge for 3 weeks. The beer was not oxidized and still had plenty of carbonation.

BMBF https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/

 

[kegtoe]

+1, this is exactly what i do. I have added a carbanation drop to the beers jsu tto be sure they where carbed and i think that made them over carbinated. I dont think i would even have worried about the carb drop if i was going to consume them the same week..

I just use a cobra tap and shove the tube from a bottling wand inside (a piece of vinyl tubing works also but takes up more volume in the bottle). THis way you fill from the bottom. Make sure to cap on the foam on not on dead space. Sanitize everything first with star san and a spray bottle as said above. Sanitize bottles as usual.

I bottled a beer for a brewer friend with this method that he forgot about in the back of his fridge for 3 weeks. The beer was not oxidized and still had plenty of carbonation.