Keg To Bottle - EMERGENGY -

[Bru4u]

It's my nephews 18th birthday on sat, we are going round to watch the rugby and then go out for a meal and a few pints, I will be bringing the mobile bar as seen below.

My problem is that a few weeks ago I bottled some of the TTL and it's cloudy as feck, this was bottled and labled to celebrate the lads turning of age. I have lots of this in cornies bright as a button, carbonated, I cant give the young lad a cloudy beer so how am I going to transfer from cornie to bottle with out wasting half it in foam.

I don't have a botteling stick thing, the bottles will be filled on the day a few hours before, the beer can be chilled to the max, is there some trick in doing this, I tried filling through the tap before and lots of foam, do I drop the pressure in the keg and use large bore line or what.

Any help and advice you can give is greatly appreciated.
Bru

 

[Aleman]

Carbonate and Chill the keg, chill the bottles.

Drop the pressure low. . . . then use a disconnect with a long (10ft+) length of 3/16 tubing with no tap. . . . put the tubing to the bottom of the bottle and allow it to fill . . . once full remove and move to the next bottle. . . .If you use a low enough pressure and flow rate you will get a little foaming but not excessive (The early bottles foam most) . . .If you get it right you can cap one bottle while the other is filling.

 

[Bru4u]

Thank you Aleman, the keg and bottles can be brought down to about 2 Deg C, have hosing perfect. :thumb:

 

[Parva]

My only worry here is that the bottled beer is suffering chill haze and you may get the same symptoms once the kegged beer is bottled. Oddly enough, I kegged a TTL and had enough left for a 2l PET bottle. I left the bottle to condition and it was clear as a bell, put it in the fridge and it looked foggy as hell. Sure enough, back at room temperature it cleared again. The keg doesn't suffer this as I store it at room temperature and run it through a chiller.

Having said all of that, if your keg is stored at the lower temperature and is dispensing clear beer then it's likely fine. :)

 

[Bru4u]

It is just the yeast, I use gelatine to drop the beer if it is going to keg, they would be fine in a few more weeks but time is of the essence