What are y’all using to periodically fill a couple swing top bottles from your kegerator? I bought a growler filler tube for my tap but it doesn’t work so great for bottles. The counter pressure fillers I see online would be nice if I were filling 50 bottles at once, but kind of a pain to take apart and clean for just a few bottles. I’m looking for a gizmo that is a little simpler. This guys has a need idea based on the counter pressure filler that I might try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IgVx3h5llA
Wondering what anyone else has found to work well.
I just use an adapter that fits into the spout and enough silicone tubing to reach the bottom of the bottles. Turn the pressure dwn to 3 or 4 psi, draw a pint to chill the faucet down and fill chilled bottles. I seldom bottle more than 2 or 3 12 ouncers or 1 bomber at a time and this works well.
Piece of cane fitting into a picnic tap and through a bung that fits into mouth of bottle. I think some people call it a bier muncher. It works well enough for me to bottle IPAs and consume within a few days once I got the hang of it particularly when I use a soda bottle and a carbonator. One person I know does this for competition and he was Midwest Homebrewer of the Year.
The hack in the video looks good. I think I will try that next time.
I use flow control taps and a growler filler. I spill more beer than I prefer and I only get descent bottle fills 60-70% of the time. The other 30-40% are too foamy and the beer ends up filling only to the shoulder of the bottle after the foam dissipates (after capping of course).
Just wanted to follow up on this for the curious. It works well with my Intertap faucet. I tried it with a regular old run-o-the-mill Kegco faucet and it just made a mess due to a small pinhole on the underside of the spout. When pressure would build, it would squirt beer all over. With the Intertap, I turn the pressure down to about 3psi, as Bob357 said, and this thing works wonderfully. My keg of wry smile (amazing beer!) is in the kegerator with a picnic tap on it and the growler fitting actually fits in the picnic tap too so I was able to bottle one of those as well. Cleanup couldn’t be easier too which is nice.
