Beer guns, any good ?

[darkonnis]

The simplicity of the beer gun is its strength the trouble with more beer filler is you need another arm to use it...with the beer gun you simply purge the bottle and fill.
I've had no problems with bottled beer that's been in there for over a year.

I have 2 arms.... so it isn't like its a problem, if you've only got the one then its a moot point and you should look at the PEGAS tap instead

[roscoe]

the point of the other arm was you can be doing something else with it when the bottles are filling thus getting the job done quicker like..
- capping the last bottle
- pulling bottles off the bottle tree
- taking a cap out of the sanitser disk and loading the bottle capper
- scratching the head figuring what beerey device to buy next

[Cazamodo]

I use the CPF from Morebeer and it works for me.
It's not the fastest, but I can work it with one hand pretty good.
Once i've got the gas pressure for the keg, and filler itself sorted, I find that I only have to adjust the releif valve on the filler itself once. All that takes only a couple of bottles to get right.
I use two hand to put the filler in the bottle, but then I can hold it with one hand and use the other to load the capper and cap the previous bottle (bench capper bolted into bottle table).
I have got mixed results. All bottle have been carbed nicely, but one batch I think was over carbed and if I didnt cap it within about a second after removing the CPF it gushed out the top.

Anyway I get through bottles pretty quick, and it works for me!

No experience with the beer gun though I'm afraid.

[darkonnis]

Pretty much what Caz said, 2 hands to start it off then you can switch down to 1 while you sort the next bottle out. If you make a manifold to hold the beer gun and bottle it becomes no handed.

[Belter]

What do you guys use to keep the bottle up against the CPBF. Ige seenn an American design on springs.

[Cazamodo]

I always wanted to make a manifold, Ive seen a few online. One guy had 4 set up on a board and was flying through bottles.

I just hold mine, after I first push the rubber stopper in the bottle, thats where I hold it while its filling up.