What’s a quicker way to bottle beer?

[TechyWalla]

Evidently it was 2008 the new bottle was introduced, also flip tops were changed from ceramic to plastic.
http://design.nl/item/new_bottle_design_for_grolsch
T.W.

 

[Coastalbrew]

@Keredo , if you haven't seen it already this thread has some great tips for bottling. It's definitely worth a read:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/bottling-tips-for-the-homebrewer.94812/#post-1030364

 

[GrowleyMonster]

I keg, and I have kegged from my very first batch. When I need room in the fridge for a fresh keg and I still have beer left in the oldest one of the two that fit, I bottle from that. When I know I am going to bottle what is left in a keg, I increase the gas pressure on the keg to about 10lbs and make sure it gets good and cold before bottling day. I have a double regulator setup on my gas tank, and one goes to the keg being emptied with just a couple of pounds pressure, and one to my backpressure filler for purging bottles. Shoot a shot of gas in the bottle, then open up the beer valve and filler up, holding a bit of back pressure to reduce foaming. I get friends to save empty 6 pack carriers, and I stand the filled bottles in one, then cap 6 and move on to filling the next 6. You can do this without a backpressure filler... just tee the bottle purging line and the beer line together into a piece of copper or stainless pipe or a bottle filler. Back pressure is adjusted by how hard you push the stopper down into the bottle. You can take a universal stopper and use it upside down, so that it goes down over the bottle mouth instead of inside it, and this works really well but you have to pop off the closures if you are filling swingtops. Either way, with a backpressure filler or a DIY purge-and-fill setup, you are keeping air off the beer. And you will not have a bunch of sediment in the bottle. I do not care to use priming sugar. Keg carbonating is dead easy with no sedimentation. Plus I only bottle when I need to move a partly full keg out of the fridge anyhow.