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So I have a little bit left of my first kegged beer and I do not want to spend the $$ on a bottle filler right now. I know Tasty has his ghetto method of filling bottled straight from the picnic tap. Does anyone know what show he describes this in or can someone just tell me how high to carb the beer and at what temp the beer and bottles should be at. I have tried searching for it but fell short of finding it. Thanks

General guidelines as I recall them:
Beer and bottles should be cold, carb might be slightly above what you want it to be at. I believe he puts a short length of tubing on his tap to run it into the bottles too. Purge the bottle with CO2, gently fill to where you want it, tap to release a bit of CO2 to push out any more O2, and cap.

Yea thats about what I remembered. I'll use the last bit of this batch as experimentation. Thanks.

spiderwrangler wrote:General guidelines as I recall them:
Beer and bottles should be cold, carb might be slightly above what you want it to be at. I believe he puts a short length of tubing on his tap to run it into the bottles too. Purge the bottle with CO2, gently fill to where you want it, tap to release a bit of CO2 to push out any more O2, and cap.

That's pretty much it but the tubing (a piece of racking cane actually) is on the gas side. I tilt the bottle to fill from the picnic faucet on the beer side.

Tasty

You also may want to push the beer out at a low pressure... Like under 4 psi...
I fill with the same "Tasty Method" and it works great!


Josh

P.S. I found that if the bottles are the same temp as the beer, it work a little better than having the bottles near freezing.

TastyMcD wrote:That's pretty much it but the tubing (a piece of racking cane actually) is on the gas side. I tilt the bottle to fill from the picnic faucet on the beer side.

Tasty

Ah, to be able to purge all the air out with CO2... got it!

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-n ... gun-24678/

This is from another forum, but I have used this method very effectively. Combine that with the CO2 purge and you should be golden. I get no foaming with the stopper/racking cane method. You don't even need to chill the bottles with this method.

Do you run the gas side from the same tankor just use a splitter?