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samg

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We've done 3 or 4 brews in kegs now, with different levels of gas, from 30psi for a week to 10psi for a week.

I wanted to know what others done, as we're struggling to get the beer calmly into the bottles.

I purge any gas in the keg 12 hours before the bottling, then the beer is taken from the keg in the fridge into cool (not fridge temp) bottles, under little pressure (5psi). Some go nuts and froth over, some are ok.

One of our kegs seems to have a small leak, which yields great results, as the beer keeps good gas, and isn't to crazy come bottling time. But we cannot regulate it!
 
afaik a change in temp a change in pressure and an interuption in the flow or an excessivly turbulant flow can stimulate a catastrophic co2 release from beer.

so check all the lines for kinks, and chill the bottles in an ice bucket/coldbox in advance of filling.

then purge the bottles with co2 and build up the gas pressure before opening the beer valve so the bottle fills slowly as u burp the gas out.

so you maintain both the temp and pressure to minimise the foam out risk.:thumb:
 

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