Beer Experiment

[Brew Engineer]

I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout over 2 years ago, but the yeast crapped out on me. It got to around 11%, and I was bottle conditioning at the time, and couldn't get much carbonation out of it. Still, I've been tasting it every few months, and its got potential.

So, I took all the remaining bottles (about 1 1/2 gallons) and dumped them into a Tap-a-Draft bottle (Sanitizing EVERYTHING). It's been carbonating in my fridge for a few days, and I tasted it last night...

Holy Shit is it good! It's still a little sweet, but now that its carbonated, it cuts through the residual sweetness much better. Now I have to find a good way to bottle from the Tap-a-Draft, and enter this thing in some Competitions!!!

Does anyone have experience trying to bottle from a Tap-a-Draft? I've tried it in the past, and I usually lose carbonation and the beer ends up half flat.

[DannyW]

I've done what you did but with cornies, never used a T-A-D.

Couldn't you just chill everything (TAD, bottles, little piece of tubing) down to near freezing and fill from the tap with a short piece of host just like you would from a regular keg tap?

[Brew Engineer]

I've done what you did but with cornies, never used a T-A-D.

Couldn't you just chill everything (TAD, bottles, little piece of tubing) down to near freezing and fill from the tap with a short piece of host just like you would from a regular keg tap?

Yeah, teh hard part will be to connect a hose to the output of the TAD. In the past, I've filled directly without it, and I get a little too much head...

Its a soft rubber tube material, and all the tubing I have around is stiff...

I'm really not trying to be a wise ass here, I just can't help it.

[DannyW]

Maybe your bottling wand will fit in or on the TAD dispensing tube?