Bottle filling with Carbonation Caps - whats your "best practice"

[GrumpyPaul]

What is the best way to fill bottle from a keg using carbonation caps?

If I am just filling a bottle as a takeaway that is going to be drunk soon I generally do OK. a little bit of frothing and some los of carbonation but noting too bad when its just for casual drinking.

But I was wondering, for those that enter beers into comps, how do yo fill the bottle and maintain carbonation for the longer term? Especially if the bottle is going to be judged, you will want the judges to get it with the carbonation spot on.

And.....

I assume you aren't leaving your carb caps on the bottles sent off to the comp - so how do you swap it to a standard cap without losing some carbonation???

 

[MashBasher]

Best practice is don't do it, I reckon. Use a proper CP filler.

Posted something over here on that topic

 

[Beamerthe2nd]

Fill a sanitised bottle with co2, change to liquid disconnect, slowly turn carb cap to allow some co2 to escape. Be patient, once arrived at desired level turn the the carb cap back to close. Remove liquid disconnect, remove carb cap, add lid.

Hope this helps