We no need no stinking beer gun...

[Redpappy]

for a trial, would you suggest, dropping the pressure by half then? for doing a trial i am looking at 2-4 bottles.

 

[ba-brewer]

If you were not happy with how your last attempt went sure try dropping the pressure while filling.

I originally chilled my bottles in the freezer and used lower keg pressure while filling, but I later found I got the same result if not better by just using room temp bottles and the normal serving pressure on the keg. Both approaches put beer in the bottle., not chilling the bottles and having to mess with my regulator is just easier for me.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

I have designed my beer gun as described, picnic tap, line, stopper, a piece of racking cane. and I need some help with troubleshooting/ understanding. This was my first attempt of bottling from my keg. So I started off small. I took 2 bottles and placed them in freezer( i first sanitized them, then placed a piece of alum. foil (sprayed with starsan) over the opening) for about 2 weeks. I dropped my co2 to about 6 psi and filled the bottles. Once i got liquid/foam coming out of the top, i placed a cap on the bottle, and the preceded to the next bottle. Once both bottles was filled, i titled the bottles to get some foam up to cap and then capped them. Once capped i placed back into my keezer. Keezer is set to 40F. I waited for 1 week then had one. Then I waited 2 weeks to have the 2nd one.

I noticed that the beer was carbonated ( i can still see some bubbles rising up from the beer, but there was almost no head to to. Is this typical from filling bottles from a keg? Or did i mess up somewhere?

I have my co2 set at 14PSI. it was done on a Red Ale. Keezer temp 40F.

First I think 14psi is too high. I fill at about 4 - 6 psi. If the flow is too rapid the CO2 can come out of solution. Did you notice if the beer had a head before kegging? Also, instead of the piece of tracking cane try a bottle filler cane. It has a one way valve to keep beer at the end of the tube not air. Hope this helps.

 

[tmendick]

If you use a stopper, there really shouldnt be a reason to lower your psi. I hold the stopper down and "burp" the stopper a bit when the flow stops until the bottle is full and cap each bottle immediately.

 

[FJRussonc]

If you use a stopper, there really shouldnt be a reason to lower your psi. I hold the stopper down and "burp" the stopper a bit when the flow stops until the bottle is full and cap each bottle immediately.

What size stopper are you use?

 

[tmendick]

it's a #7 hollow (small universal) stopper. it fits snugly around the neck of a beer bottle.

 

[Gabriel Fuchs]

Hello, this is my first time here. Yesterday I bottled 2 kegs of Hefe-Weizen (2nd time using BMBF filler), and it was super foamy. I used 5ft of 3/16 ID tubing for a 3.2 vol co2 beer (it was settled with 22 PSI at 42°F during a week). At the bottling time, kegs where at 35°F. I first started with 3-4 PSI and it was only foam (after bleeding valve). Then I setted 10-12 PSI and it improved, but anyway there was much foam, and now the bottles are quite flat.
What could be wrong? thank you!

 

[ba-brewer]

Hello, this is my first time here. Yesterday I bottled 2 kegs of Hefe-Weizen (2nd time using BMBF filler), and it was super foamy. I used 5ft of 3/16 ID tubing for a 3.2 vol co2 beer (it was settled with 22 PSI at 42°F during a week). At the bottling time, kegs where at 35°F. I first started with 3-4 PSI and it was only foam (after bleeding valve). Then I setted 10-12 PSI and it improved, but anyway there was much foam, and now the bottles are quite flat.
What could be wrong? thank you!

I would try an appropriate length beer line for that pressure/volumes and the 22psi carbonation pressure to see how that goes.

Did you use a cork and allow the first bit of foam to fall back under pressure before doing the rest of the filling?
Was there foam instantly in the beer line right at the disconnect?

 

[Gabriel Fuchs]

I would try an appropriate length beer line for that pressure/volumes and the 22psi carbonation pressure to see how that goes.

Did you use a cork and allow the first bit of foam to fall back under pressure before doing the rest of the filling?
Was there foam instantly in the beer line right at the disconnect?

Hi! So I used 4m line with 22 psi and ir worked perfectly! Thank you very much with the advice!