Beer Exchange (Finaly) Secret Santa / Secret Uncle Sam

[JB-Brewer]

I've got an over bitter ESB(5.0%) in bottles and a VERY light crisp golden ale(4.5%) in the keg, that my BMC friends love. The golden was my first attempt at a late extract addition and it seems to have made a difference with the extract flavor. I'd like to send out the golden ale but I'm poor and don't have a CP filler or Beer Gun. My next purchase is going to be a beer gun, but not before July. Can anyone recommend a "ghetto" bottle filler that will do the deed for the time being?? Thank you sluts.

I bet you 20 bucks Jamil or DOC is sending to bub. Tis BULLSHIT! Prove me wrong booby.

[linuxelf]

You can chill the bottle down before filling it. Then, drop the pressure in your keg to like 2 or 3 lbs, then slowly fill the bottle straight from the tap. It will pick up a bit of oxygen, since you can't really purge the bottle this way, and the carbonation won't be the same as if you used a counter pressure filler, but since this bottle will be consumed pretty quickly, I don't think it'll matter that much.

[beer_bear]

If my beer gets reviewed I might be banned from the forums for good. But i'm still interested to see the different reviews and opinions. I would also like to see who Doc and Jams are sending to. That would be the shit! Papel brew in the home. I would probably quit brewing after tasting his beer just knowing that I'd have a hard time getting that good.

[brewcrew]

You can chill the bottle down before filling it. Then, drop the pressure in your keg to like 2 or 3 lbs, then slowly fill the bottle straight from the tap. It will pick up a bit of oxygen, since you can't really purge the bottle this way, and the carbonation won't be the same as if you used a counter pressure filler, but since this bottle will be consumed pretty quickly, I don't think it'll matter that much.

Will adding a small piece of vinyl tubing on the end of the tapper down to the bottom of the bottle help with the foaming? The reason I ask is any place I get a growler filled uses this method.

[linuxelf]

I've never done it before, but I can't see how it'd hurt. I just set the bottles at a 45 degree angle and let the beer run down the inside. Granted, I'm pretty much a keg n00b, but it seems to work.

[bub]

Note for all of you waiting for Jamil's brew... keep waiting he didn't sign up.... Doc on the other hand did...
BUB

[DannyW]

Can anyone recommend a "ghetto" bottle filler that will do the deed for the time being?? Thank you sluts.

Go to the hardware store with $5 in your hand and build one of Ken Schwartz's Poor Man's Counterpressure Bottle Fillers. I have a beer gun, a Phil's Philler, and a More Beer filler and still find myself reaching for the Poor Man's pretty much every time.

The diagram is getting harder to find on the internet, but there is a diagram on page 8 of http://bubrew.org/filling-bottles-from-kegs.pdf

Picture and a description of how to put it together is on http://bubrew.org/cpbf.html but the formatting of that page is badly broken.

[JB-Brewer]

Danny that is EXACTLY what I was looking for... it's amazing! Thanks man.