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[CaptRon]

My bottling bucket got destroyed. My dumbass forgot to clean it out after the last bottling and so a bunch of mold took over. So, I was thinking, I have an empty keg right now, would using the racking cane and the bottling wand work well together if I were to use the keg? Or do you think it will have problems losing the siphon or something?I don't want to keg this beer, I want to bottle it - just to get that out of the way.

[Recklessdeck]

Hook up the bottling wand to a liquid disconnect and use co2 to push out the beer from the keg into the bottles. Rack to keg, add priming solution, put the gas on, like, 1 psi, and fill.

[ColdAssHonky]

Hook up the bottling wand to a liquid disconnect and use co2 to push out the beer from the keg into the bottles. Rack to keg, add priming solution, put the gas on, like, 1 psi, and fill.

That sounds like a really good idea. If it was me, I'd add priming solution before racking so that it gets mixed in better when you do rack.

[CaptRon]

All my disconnects are being in use on my other kegs. I could probably just hose clamp the hose on to where the fitting screws down the diptube eh? Being that I am going to be using hardly any pressure. Or do you think it wouldn't hold?

[JReigle]

Hook up the bottling wand to a liquid disconnect and use co2 to push out the beer from the keg into the bottles. Rack to keg, add priming solution, put the gas on, like, 1 psi, and fill.

+1, I think this is the best way to fill bottles you intend to condition. Add a picnic tap to control the flow to the bottling wand and it's ideal.

[Recklessdeck]

I think you would be fine clamping the hose to the out post. Like Jreigle said as long as you have some way of stopping the flow in between bottles you should be fine. Good luck!

[Slainte]

+1, I think this is the best way to fill bottles you intend to condition. Add a picnic tap to control the flow to the bottling wand and it's ideal.

No, ideal would be being transferring into a CO2 purged bottle.

[Deerslyr]

All my disconnects are being in use on my other kegs. I could probably just hose clamp the hose on to where the fitting screws down the diptube eh? Being that I am going to be using hardly any pressure. Or do you think it wouldn't hold?

??? I think you are overthinking this... just disconnect one of the in use kegs so that you can use the gas line temporarily... it's not like you NEED to have it hooked up to the gas 100% of the time. Right??? I say this because priming in the keg and forcing it out into the bottles is easier than using a bottling bucket... and if you were so inclined, you could leave a portion in the keg as well. Give it a shot of CO2 to give it a protective layer and let the sugar do the rest of the carbonating.

[CaptRon]

??? I think you are overthinking this... just disconnect one of the in use kegs so that you can use the gas line temporarily... it's not like you NEED to have it hooked up to the gas 100% of the time. Right??? I say this because priming in the keg and forcing it out into the bottles is easier than using a bottling bucket... and if you were so inclined, you could leave a portion in the keg as well. Give it a shot of CO2 to give it a protective layer and let the sugar do the rest of the carbonating.

For sure I would use the gas disconnect for this. It is the side for the tubing/wand. I don't have any extras of those beverage ones laying around.

[kbhale]

At one time I thought about putting a shut off valve at the bottom of a keg. Like this one. One of these days I might think good of a reason to do it.https://www.dialmfg....4...7 HD ea.jpghttps://images.googl...t...DN&start=54

[Recklessdeck]

How did this work out for you badogg? did you get the batch bottled?

[CaptRon]

How did this work out for you badogg? did you get the batch bottled?

bah, not yet. The weekend fell apart on me and I didn't have the time. And now I am toying around with just kegging it to get it over with being that I have two kegs that are getting ready to kick. Bottle something else when things settle down in teh dogg-house.

[Jimmy James]

So now the truth comes out. This isn't a bottling, kegging or sanitation problem. This is a consumption problem. Fix that first and you're other issues take care of themselves.

bah, not yet. The weekend fell apart on me and I didn't have the time. And now I am toying around with just kegging it to get it over with being that I have two kegs that are getting ready to kick. Bottle something else when things settle down in teh dogg-house.