How Best To Use Counter Pressure Filler

By Maria Thomas


The first step just like any other brewing tactics of any home made brew is to ensure all the bottles are sterilized together with any other equipment to be used. When using the counter pressure filler, it is easy to ensure that it well sanitized by way of opening all the valves and immersing the products into sterilizer solution. While in the solution it should be left to rest for a few minutes just to be sure all the germs are cleared. After that, you need to hold the product and blow it the solution from it with the help of carbon monoxide.

Step two should be gathering all the caps and the bottles that shall be used and make sure you have a copper with you. At this time you need to have the beer already carbonated to reduce the foam and subject it to close to thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure the bottles rest on a tray to clear any splashes.

Also if you are looking forward to reducing the foam, then you can put the containers in the freezer. This cold atmosphere will go a long way in making sure that the foam is lessened.

One precaution worth noting is that before you make any connection, all the valves be it the liquid or beer should be closed. You can follow the procedure where you can start with the gas and then go to the keg. Here you will set the regulator to 10 psi. Make sure that you do not rush things or you will end up filling the bottles with foam and not beer.

If the beer is connected to carbon monoxide, you should disconnect it and pull the pressure relief until when you hear the hissing stopping. Insert the filler in the bottle while making sure that the stopper is firmly seated in the neck of the bottle.

You should at this time open the gas slowly ensuring that the containers are filled to the same pressure level with the keg. When the hissing noise stops, it is an indication that the levels are close to each other. You now open the slight bulb slowly to allow oxygen to give way to the carbon dioxide. Leave the valve open for not more than ten seconds.

After this process, you should now close the bleed valve to allow the bottle in use to pressurize. The gas valve should be closed as you get to the next step of opening the liquid valve in full. Since the level of the pressure in the keg and that in the beer are the same, there will be no flow of beer. You should, therefore, begin filling the bottle slowly with beer making sure there is less foam.

After the bottle is full, you need to close all the three valves and place the cap on the bottle. At this time you may find that there is some foam, but this should not be a bother since the little foam will ensure the process of oxidation does not take place. Repeat the process with the rest of the bottles until you get the number that you want.




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