Bottling from keg

[Carpking]

Hi.
If i wanted to give some bottles away but my beer is kegged is it as simple as pouring into bottles and re-priming with half a teaspoon of sugar? Or just bottling and capping?
Ta.

[yashicamat]

In the past I've just done this by bottling and capping (sanitising the bottles and caps though). The beer won't really be sparkling (if you can cap them quickly before too much "fizz" is lost, you'll retain a little sparkle I expect) and I wouldn't personally vouch for their long term storage ability, but if you ask your friends to drink them within a few days or so, it should be ok.

[Jim]

I used to bottle the last couple of pints of cloudy beer from my kegs.

I just used to prime with roughly half a teaspoon of sugar (as the beer was already slightly carbonated) and then treat like a newly bottled beer (warm place for a few days, then condition in a cool place for several weeks). They came out OK.

[Neal]

I did this last week. Just bottled from the keg via a funnel and capped. I made sure I didn't splash any whilst filling and left no air space between the top of the beer and the cap.
The beer was consumed within 48hrs and apparently was well received.

[prolix]

I chill the beer then squirt some co2 in the bottle, then beer, then cap, looses a touch of flavour but works well

[Carpking]

Thanks guys.

[drsmurto]

I vent the keg completely of gas and then just wind it back so the beer is dribbling out of the tap.

Make sure the bottles you are filling are cold and sanitised.

Pour the beer into the bottles and fill it up to the top. If you do this slow enough, no head forms and you will then lose very little carbonation.

No need to prime further. The beer will remain at the carbonation level it was in the keg (or close enough to).

Had 2 kegs that needing emptying this week so managed to pour off 12 x 375mL bottles of my Rogers (3.2% APA) and 6 x 375mL of my stout. Will be taking the Rogers to the beach with me this weekend.

[paulcav]

FWIW I have a section of tubing that fits inside my tap and reaches the bottom of the bottle. This reduces the foaming when filling the bottles.


Paul