rebottling

[jamest22]

I have a tripel I would ike to enter into an upcoming competition that requires two bottles. Unfortunately all I have left are 750ml bottles and I don't want to give up two of those for the comp.

I would like to open one of the 750ml bottles and use it to fill two 12 oz bottles to submit for the comp.

Anyone ever tried this? Any advise?

 

[Mapleroots]

Yeas I have Tried this and the end result was a very oxidized brew. It was a vanilla IPA and I had bottled in 22oz. bottles and had to transfer into 12oz. I tried to carefully pour into a pitcher without creating any head and then siphon from that into the 12 oz. And then add a pinch of corn sugar to re-carb. Obviously this technique did not work, but you could try to siphon directly from one bottle to the other, being very careful not to splash the brew, and then add what you need to re-carb,. Some other good advice I was given is to bottle with different sizes and keep the small guys around for the reason of unexpected competition.

 

[jamest22]

thanks. not sure if i'm going to try it. maybe i'll just enjoy the brew myself...

 

[Mapleroots]

good Idea, no sense in ruining a perfectly good beer as it sits now. The judges will just laugh, like they did at me.

 

[Rick500]

If you could flush the headspace in the old bottle, and the entire new bottle with CO2 and come up with some contraption with maybe two drilled stoppers and some tubing, it seems it would do no harm.

That said, I haven't tried it, but just a thought.

 

[Revvy]

If you plan on enterring a contest, you do NOT want to risk oxydizing your beer by doing it..Either count the two bottles a worthy sacrifice for the contest or don't enter it.

In the future when you bottle in bottles you don't want to part with always bottle at least 6 in plain 12 ouncers for possible contest entries.

But you are talking about judges, some of who can detect even the slightest off flavor in a beer. That's what they are supposed to do...be critical. So you wanna give them some extra ammo?

 

[BargainFittings]

If i were to do it I'd get the beer and target bottles as cold as possible and the same temp.

Sanitize some tubing and a standard drilled stopper from an airlock, the kind that will fit in the neck of the bottle.

Insert the tubing through the hole of the stopper and go about an inch past the bottom.

Ok flush the tubing and bottles with some co2, carefully open the tripel, insert the stopper and fill each bottle. You will have to pinch the stopper to let air in as it fills the smaller bottle. Have a helper "spray" c02 at the stopper as you fill so less air will go in.

This is just my overly complicated way to help you waste your tripel on judges!

Good luck.

 

[Revvy]

An easier method is if it's an open judging, be there, and ask for your bottles back when they are cleaning up..you'll probably end up with as many bottles as you want to take with you...some even filled.

Or if you know anyone involved in the contest make arraingments. One of the people involved in one of the contests I entered some beers that were in antique pints, was a member here....he made sure to snag the bottles for me after the contest.

 

[malkore]

I'd try to push the beer out like the guys do using CO2 and a carboy cap with a stem going down into the beer. pressure forces the beer up the tube, out the cap, and into the waiting bottle (which I'd prefill with CO2).

probably not worth the effort but that's what you'd need I think.

 

[KayaBrew]

eff the comp and drink the beer!

 

[Revvy]

eff the comp and drink the beer!

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