[COHO] Blichmann beer gun

[geoffrey marlowe]

Gary, and the rest of the club,

Brian has his own beer gun (and I don't mind volunteering it!), so we can use that at the Group Brew this weekend. I will bring my CO2 tank, so we should be fine with on that front. The beer gun requires 2 co2 tanks, one to purge the bottle of O2 and one to push the beer from the keg. I am sure you can rig it up with splitters and pressure regulators or some such thing, but having 2 tanks makes it much easier. 

As far as the pressure and carbonation, I have no idea. I figure as long as it is properly carbonated when it hits my glass, its fine for the bottle, but I don't know for sure. If someone could bring a capper, that would be great. Brian and I went on a bit of a brewing spree while the Cat was away (Sorry Erin, I couldn't resist!), and also did some bottling. However, our cappers seem to be a bit challenged, so if anyone could bring some caps, proper bottles and a capper, we would be a bit more confident in the bottle/cap seal.

Geoff
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> From: garywirt at bendbroadband.com
> To: coho at lists.bendtel.net
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:37:46 -0700
> Subject: [COHO] Blichmann beer gun
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> I would like to use the club beer gun to bottle up a six pack or so of one of my winning ( J ) competition brews.
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> Can bring the keg with a few sanitized bottles, caps & capper to someone’s house…or The Brew Shop or wherever….
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> I also have CO², but probably not the correct plumbing arrangement for the gun.
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> The keg has been under about 9 psi of CO²  for several days and seems to be nicely carbonated.  Is any additional pressure required prior to bottling?
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> Gary
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: coho-bounces at lists.bendtel.net [mailto:coho-bounces at lists.bendtel.net] On Behalf Of brett thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:00 PM
> To: COHO
> Subject: [COHO] Blichmann beer gun for competition bottling
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> Please give a shout out if you're in need of the club's Blichmann beer gun for bottling some brews for the upcoming Spring Fling competition.  Evan and I will be on beer gun duty during the next few weeks.  All we ask of you is that if you use the beer gun for bottling, that you join us in helping others to get their beers bottled as well.  The process is incredibly easy, and doesn't take any time at all with the right equipment (which we have).
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> BT

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