Bottling from a Barrel

[BrewHouse]

I have had a session bitter sitting in a few barrels now for about a week. It has already been primed and is well carbonated. I want to transfer one of the barrels into bottles and am not quite sure of the best way to go about it.

I normally go straight from primary into a bottling bucket, prime and bottle as usual but have never done it this way before.

If I just attach the bottling stick to the barrel tap I am thinking that the pressure in the barrels will give me nothing but bottles full of foam.

If I release the pressure in the barrels before bottling I am guessing that the beer will fill normally but the sudden release of pressure may bring up a load of yeast back into the beer.

I could transfer into a bottling bucket and then proceed as normal but am not sure whether I will need to reprime.

I have also considered crash cooling the barrel, (then releasing the pressure?) and bottling without priming.

I am pretty sure that you guys using kegs will carbonate in the kegs and then use a bottling gun but doing this from a barrel means that I do not have the same control over pressure.

Corny Kegs are definitely on the wish list but until I do, any advice appreciated.

Thanks

Brewhouse

[FUBAR]

Its perfectly OK to bottle from a PB and I have done it many of times, it is essential that you position the PB where you intend to bottle the day before and to vent the keg several times prior to bottling, the amount of times this will need to be done depends on how highly carbonated it is. When it comes to bottling use a little bottler attached to the barrrel tap and have the barrel cap open whilst bottling, its amazing how much C02 is dissolved in the beer and the bottles dont take long to carb up, bottle up a couple of PET bottles so you can feel how firm and therefore carbed up they are .

[aamcle]

Do it right make up one of these :-

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/74451 ... try1062270

I made one they work real well and with very very little loss of carbination, if your going into glass bottles chill them first.



ATB. aamcle

[Goulders]

Do it right make up one of these :-

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/74451 ... try1062270

I made one they work real well and with very very little loss of carbination, if your going into glass bottles chill them first.



ATB. aamcle

That won't work for a standard PB... Ok for bottling from a corney though

[BrewHouse]

Thanks guys,

Good to know. The summer has finally arrived and it will be in the mid/high twenties all week and so I will at least try and get the PB and bottles as cold as possible before I try this.