Yesterday I had some minor bottling woe's. Some of my Landlord Clone was being transferred from a couple of chilled 2 litre PET bottles in to glass crown capped bottles after three weekn of conditioning. (This was an experiment to see whether I could avoid giving people bottle conditioned beers that got cloudy in transit.) However with both PET bottles the syphon hose just filled with foam even though the beer in the PET bottles didn't seem to be over carbonated. though I got four small bottles out of each 2 litre PET alot of foam flowed and there was alot of wastage. I didn't want to give up (yet) with this carbonate in one bottle then transfer approach & I do know of some American home brewers who bottle from a corny after conditioning.
Any idea's what my problem is? i.e. Is their too little hydrostatic pressure in a 2 LItre PET bottle to push it through as liquid rather tham foam? Should I raise the PET bottle? Should I get a wider syphone hose? chill the beer even more maybe? Just wondered if anyones got any idea's as to how best to solve this one?
I say mixed blessings as my top-fermented-yukky-bread-yeast-lager experiment is starting to taste better (not yet really drinkable but reasonable compared to previous tasting's) So the weekend's not entirely wasted.
thanks again
Phil
Mixed Blessings
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Madbrewer
Thanks for your idea's DAAB. Your barrel idea is apprealing as my large corny is full, my small corny not big enough for the brew. Was wondering if you think a plastic barrel will hold enough pressure for a lager which I was otherwise going to condition in yet more PET's? Regarding the hose - it basically filled with foam too and the syphon run was slow due to this - so it wasn't too much speed causing the issue. However if you think I can condtition ENOUGH in a plastic barrel for lager - I may give that a go?
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Aleman
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Another tip (Disclaimer: if you try this and split the barrel its your problem 
), is to add another PRV rubber over the top of the first one, you can get quite a bit more pressure in . . . Of course you also run the risk of splitting the barrel.
At 2C 10PSI will give you about 2.5 Vols of CO2 more than adequate for a lager.
), is to add another PRV rubber over the top of the first one, you can get quite a bit more pressure in . . . Of course you also run the risk of splitting the barrel.At 2C 10PSI will give you about 2.5 Vols of CO2 more than adequate for a lager.