I've been wanting to get a Counter pressure bottle filler for some time, mainly to bottle competition entries and the odd beer for friends. Reports from people who have spent quite a few dollars on commercially available ones have ranged from ok to waste of money, and a lot reported they were hard to use.
Being a tight wad I had a serious look around at parts to make one myself, I wanted it to be easy to clean, dismantle and simple to use with the minimum amount of handles to turn.
The best design I could find for what I wanted was from
Langborough Brewery (thanks guys), it's simple and easy to use although I wasn't sure how easy to clean it would be, the same for dismantling.
Then I had a brain fart, surely John Guest had some fittings that would work, and here it is, $59.00:
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It can be completely pulled apart for cleaning and parts are cheap enough to replace if need be.
This is the version for glass bottles and the bung can be replaced by a PET cap for the PET bottles.
Gas in through one side, bleed air out of bottle, seal and pressure up, turn off gas in and turn on beer in. Bleed pressure from the bottle slowly by shifting the bung or unscrewing the cap slightly and the bottle slowly fills. cap as normal.
I'll be testing the unit over the next couple of days.
Andrew
Apologies if anyone has gone this route before and I haven't seen it.
