Bottling from keg

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S.R.S

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Now that it seems I have almost perfected the pour from the picnic tap thanks to great advice, I would like to bottle without spending more on bottling guns and the like.
I bottled a few last night using the picnic tap with a length of 3/8 tubing attached.
As you can imagine too much froth in the neck of the bottle.
If I were to have 2 inches of 3/8 tubing coming out of the picnic tap into a jg line reducer connected to a length of 3/16 to go down and into the bottle, would this work?
Thanks all
 
This doesn’t really answer your question but I took delivery of a carbonation cap and two new liquid disconnects last week. Bottling with them is an absolute doddle! Think it was about £20 for them and I had some spare beer line hanging around. Cheaper than a beer gun and I can force carb the litre or so beer I have left after filling a keg, happy days!
 
Don't know about the pipe, but someone might, but have you got the bottles super cold as that helps. Some people counter-pressure with just a demijohn bung or just knock the pressure right down. I'm not searching for a link to the bung thing, I've got a lasagne to make.
 
In the past I have bottled successfully using, picnic tap - small amount of 3/8 beer line - standard bottling wand. Worked great
 
I understand there may be many factors to consider which could make this a “how long is a piece of string” type question, but, assuming I get everything cold to create minimum foam and with low pressure manage to gently get my beer from keg to bottle, how long is it likely to keep in the bottle?
 

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