Elbone wrote:You can still purge your bottles with CO2 by rigging a length of racking cane in a picnic tap on the end of a hose hooked to an sanitized empty keg filled with CO2. I clean and sanitize my bottles, line them up ready to be filled and top each one with a sanitized cap. I lift the cap, insert the racking cane to the bottom and purge each bottle with a good 1-2 second blast of CO2 and then replace the sanitized cap until filling. After filling, I give each bottle a tap with a rubber-covered handle of a wrench to make it foam and them cap on foam. I've had light lagers that have been in the bottle for nearly a year place in competition.
I only go through this process for competition beers, BTW. Most other beer I bottle for tastings and parties I don't bother.
Yeah, I thought about that for aging some beers. I would like to keep the moving stuff around and hooking up equipment to less as possible. Just not sure if I want to spring for a blichman beer gun or go with the cheaper but more tedious route.
On your other keg filled just with CO2, how high do you keep the pressure on it? And how long does it last for filling bottles, before oyu have to hook it back up to the gas
