Bottling beer from a keg.

Tim Gregory · Post by **Tim Gregory** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:07 pm

Anyone have any advice for filling bottles from a keg without a beergun?

Jmac00 · Post by **Jmac00** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:59 pm

have you read this thread??
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-n ... gun-24678/

There's also a few vids on youtube.. Basically chill your keg and the bottles you're using. Turn off gas..purge your keg of excess co2.....then bottle from there into cold sanitized bottles. Attaching a hose to a picnic tap seems to work which will be the route i'll be doing...or you could do the same if you got mounted faucets.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:28 pm

Tasty McDole on the Brewing Network does the picnic tap method you speak of. I believe he gives a fairly good description on the Sunday Session episode on bottling. The Brew Strong show on bottling might touch on it as well, but they mostly focus on the Beer Gun.

Tim Gregory · Post by **Tim Gregory** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:41 pm

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

bluenose · Post by **bluenose** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:53 pm

Looking to set myself up to bottle beer from my kegs and I've seen lots of examples of the method above, but I was thinking of rigging something a little different up.

I'm thinking of using something like this to purge the bottles with:

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https://www.everwoodavebrewshop.com/pro ... 2-charger/

and rigging it to my standard faucets with one of these:

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https://www.everwoodavebrewshop.com/pro ... -standard/

does anyone know of any reasons why this is a good or bad idea?

gm- · Post by **gm-** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:26 pm

I've used a picnic tap with a bottling wand jammed into it (similar to the method Jmac suggested) and I purged with one of those portable CO2 chargers. Using a normal growler filler might work, I've filled bottles like that for short term storage which seemed to work fine, not sure about long term effects. The beer definitely foams a bit more using a growler filler vs the picnic tap thingy

jtmwhyte · Post by **jtmwhyte** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:00 pm

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GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:05 pm

bluenose wrote:Looking to set myself up to bottle beer from my kegs and I've seen lots of examples of the method above, but I was thinking of rigging something a little different up.

I'm thinking of using something like this to purge the bottles with:
db_file_img_808_230x230.jpg
https://www.everwoodavebrewshop.com/pro ... 2-charger/

and rigging it to my standard faucets with one of these:
db_file_img_392_230x230.jpg
https://www.everwoodavebrewshop.com/pro ... -standard/

does anyone know of any reasons why this is a good or bad idea?

There's a potential for contaminating the bottle of beer from beer sitting in the faucet spout that's been growing stuff?

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