need to drive 5 hours with a swing top growler
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 02:06 PM
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 02:17 PM
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 02:26 PM
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 03:11 PM
Will it leak using the racking cane in the tap?Yup, you'll be fine.Bleed the pressure till it's just a trickle (or bleed mostly and then stand high on a chair, whatever it takes to get a very slow pour. If you have a broken racking cane (straight) that can fit into the cobra tap and reach the bottom of the bottle; filling from the bottom decreases foaming.Fill completely full, to the very top, so there's no headspace that the carbonation will want to pressurize, and your beer will be about as flat as it was coming out of the faucet.
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 03:26 PM
Nope, a racking cane fit perfectly in a cobra tap.Will it leak using the racking cane in the tap?
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 03:39 PM
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Posted 12 May 2009 - 03:43 PM
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Posted 13 May 2009 - 04:04 PM
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Posted 13 May 2009 - 04:18 PM
Nah, just do what's needed to fill from the bottom and all the advice above. I've done this and it's been good for 2 - 3 days. Plus plan on a mess and have a pan or something under the growler - there will be some overflow foam. I just fill till the foam's gone and when the tube is pulled out have about the headspace I want.Should I try to over carbonate it just a little before filling the growler, or is that probably no necessary?
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Posted 13 May 2009 - 04:19 PM
You'll be fine - this is essentially how I fill my growlers. I just pour straight from the faucet. Do picnic taps foam more than regular taps? If not I'd say you are golden.I have a keg setup but I don't have faucets--just a picnic tap. Can I bleed the keg pressure, turn down the psi on the tank and fill a cold growler with a picnic tap? Will it be ok to drive with it for 5 hours and then refrigerate it for maybe 24 hrs? Or, will I have flat beer?
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Posted 14 May 2009 - 07:55 AM
#12
Posted 14 May 2009 - 12:35 PM
That's what I do, put tubing on the cobra tap, shove tubing to bottom of growler and fill slowly.If you've got time to plan ahead, you can overcarb the keg by fivish pounds so that what you lose in filling will be compensated for by the overpressure in the liquid. Also helps if you put the growler in the freezer overnight before you fill. The fewer warm surfaces you have in contact with the liquid as you fill, the less carb you will lose in the process.edit: i see now that stellarbrew already mentioned chilling the growler.Or you can just shove a piece of tubing on the faucet.
Edited by 43hertz, 14 May 2009 - 12:36 PM.
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Posted 14 May 2009 - 07:04 PM
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Posted 14 May 2009 - 07:14 PM
I think that is unnecessary, and probably a mistake. We all occasionally buy pitchers (or a growler) and then pour them into a glass. It usually works for me. Anyway, why overcarb a keg for a few beers...... I don't see that any problem the few times I buy a growler at a pub. Or when I bring one with me from home. It ain't rocket surgery.................... you can overcarb the keg by fivish pounds so ............
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Posted 15 May 2009 - 08:52 AM
I use the method from your link (that's where I found out about it in the first place).I don't bother chilling the bottles and don't have a problem with foam. I've found that if you use the stopper and allow the pressure in the bottle to max out so that the beer stops flowing and only slowly burp the stopper to fill, it helps to keep the foam down to a minimum. YMMV.I have read, but not tried, that placing a rubber stopper on the tubing so that you can maintain pressure in the bottle/growler helps in reducing the foam. LinkyI seem to get a lot of foam even with chilling the bottle and dropping the pressure?
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