Bottling from the keg

[Skittlebrau]

What's the quickest way to fill a bottle from a keg that won't make a mess? I currently use a counter-pressure bottle filler but find it takes too long to do a few bottles.

[nigel_c]

I find the beer gun great. I only use it to finish off a keg if needed so only a few bottles at a time.

[Jonnycheech]

If they're being drunk fairly soon after bottling, like in the next few hours, you can bottle off a tap or a picnic tap with some beer line jammed into the opening, all at low pressure of course.

[nigel_c]

That what I normally do for NCB meet ups.

[Skittlebrau]

If they're being drunk fairly soon after bottling, like in the next few hours, you can bottle off a tap or a picnic tap with some beer line jammed into the opening, all at low pressure of course.

Might give that a go. Just looking for convenience/speed.

[phildo79]

It can be a right pain in the arse. I have decided not to bother with it again. I have seen it done on youtube, successfully, but the amount of faffing around just doesn't seem worth it to me. Nor does shelling out for a fancy beer gun gizmo.

[LordEoin]

I have a bottling wand with a demijohn rubber bung on it (about the depth of a bottle up the tube)
It's connected to some tubing that i can jam onto the tap nozzle.
You  push the bung onto the top of the bottle, turn on the tap at low pressure.
The just break the seal between the bung and the bottle to start filling.
It allows you to fill at pressure, with the pressure regulating the flow.
No foaming, no mess, very little carbonation loss.
Just make sure that the beer and the bottle are both cold.

Here's one i googled, that's pretty much the same as mine, except mine has some flexible tubing between the wand and the tap to make it easier to move around, connect, disconnect, etc.
Also, it's better with the bung the other way around, so you have better contact with the bottle.
And cut the bottom of the wand at an angle.

[DEMPSEY]

Did someone mention gizmo's, I give you, Son of Eigor,

[DEMPSEY]

He is Electric, First is Evacuate,then C02, then beer fill opens,then Snift valve opens and bottle is filled.

[DEMPSEY]

And here,

[DEMPSEY]

A laddy from Cork gave me dem 12V yokes along time ago and I knew they would find a use 

[LordEoin]

Yeah well... i have a bung on a stick!

[nigel_c]