Thuggin it with my Beer Gun, Wurd!
Today was bottling day. I had three kegs that needed to be emptied out to make way for future batches and beer that needed to be bottled for the upcoming comp season. Bottling from kegs is a relatively easy process if you have done your prep work.
The first thing is to make sure your beer is properly carbonated. If it’s overly or under carbonated, forget about it. This may mean you’ll have to try a few pints first but that’s just part of the job.
Work Station with everything I need close by
Second get all your supplies together. Make a work station for yourself with everything in arms reach. Have all your sanitizers, caps, capper, chilled bottles <Trick-Chill your bottles; the beer wont foam up as much if the container they are being transferred to is the same temperature as the beer /endtrick>, beer lines, and a bottling tub ready. I also like to have a sharpie so I can label the beer once I’m done <Confession– I’m kinda dumb so I have forgotten what beer is in what bottle so labeling right away helps me a lot! /endconfession>
I use a Blichmann Beer Gun to bottle my beer. It really is the easiest way to bottle. I used to just connect a piece of keg line from the tap but I was having really inconsistent results with carbonation levels in the bottle. They were usually undercarbonated due to so much foaming and underfilling. The Beer Gun alleviates all this and I have been getting great consistent perfect fills.
Now it’s go time, bottle those suckers up.
In the end, I bottled up 12 Mjolnirs, 12 Hobbit Sauces, and 3 Seattle Depression Chocolate Coffee Stout before I blew out the kegs. Now I’m ready for comps and sharing with friends. And with the Oatmeal Stout I made last week almost done, it’s time to figure out what to brew next. Any ideas?
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