Annapolis Home Brew demonstrates the Blichmann Beer Gun. Put kegged beer into bottles without losing carbonation!
Blichmann Beer Gun
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so how do you get the sediment? whats the difference between this and putting sugar in the bottom? just started brewing my first brew from a beer kit (yorkshire terrier), it doesn’t say about putting sugar in the bottles tho?
@briishspy The beer gun is filling bottles with beer from a keg. After the beer finished fermenting, it was put into a keg and carbonated with CO2 from a pressurized cylinder; no sugar is used to carbonating with this process.
Kegging (instead of going directly to bottles) does require more equipment than bottling with priming sugar. But kegging is faster, and it allows you to do additional processes such as filtering.
I noticed that there isn’t an extra shot of CO2 given in the head space before capping. The bottle is filled until overflowing, then the beer gun is removed leaving a head space. Is there any concern of oxidation if outside air fills the head space?
What is the shelf life of the beer after it is “beer gunned” into the bottles?
@tipsymc – Good call! Filling it to overflowing just pushes out the purge put in there at the beginning. Maybe the CO2 purge should be the final step before sealing the bottle. You’d use a lot less CO2 that way, too.
I just want to thank you for this great video!! I’ve been looking on the web for info on the Beer Gun and this was the first video I found that actually showed it in use. Blichmann should talk to you about getting a copy of it without your shop’s information for their own website!!!
As a side note, how do you keep your bottles sanitized in the fridge?
@Robertjm94706 you could just fill them all with sanitizer solution the whole time they are in the fridge to keep them nice and sanitary. even the cleanest fridge is a pretty contaminated so do what ever is nessessary to keep it clean as can be!
nice job on this vid! I too have hunted for some vid that really shows how to use the Blichmann Beer Gun! And here it is!
just a quick question. obviously you would want to use “clean” bottles, but with this device, do you need to “sanitize” them? I’m just curious because I know you sanitize the bottles with you prime and bottle carbonate so the yeast doesn’t find new bacteria to feed on and infect the beer, so one would think that with no priming sugar/yeast there would be no chance for infection. I may be way off here but just a thought.
I see no reason to ‘purge the bottle with CO2′ because when you fill it you fill it to the top and then when you remove the wand some air comes back in to create the headspace. Just wastes CO2 from my findings and changes nothing in the beer. Your thoughts?
@kornizzkool I always sanitize my bottles. If stored for a while you can get off flavors. If your beer is stored cold and consumed quickly you can cut the corner although i strongly advise against it.