Guest Lurker said:
Mr Goat
I think Darryns is a patented one off construction. I have a commercial cpbf which came with the second hand kegging gear I bought. You are welcome to borrow it for ever if you want to try to work out how the hell it works. It has about four tubes entering the fill head. After a couple of trials I like the Blichman beer gun for short term bottle transfers, its pretty easy to use, but for anything long term I plan to bottle prime.
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Thanks Capn you are correct it is another patented 'No Idea Brewing Inc' item where our motto is:
If you can buy it from the shop thats great
If you can make it at home thats even better
If you can make it at home and make it look half assed thats PRICELESS
But as you asked here it is
How does it work you ask?
The picnic tap is connected to a a beer line from your chosen keg
The bottom tube is stuffed into your bottle so the stopper seals at the top of the bottle (note the stopper can be slid up and down to suit the size bottle you are filling)
The brass thingy attached to the stopper is the guts out of a tyre valve, which has a small piece of brass tubing silver soldered to it so it goes through the stopper into the neck of the bottle
You need 1 more item to make it work as a counter pressure filler, a spare CO2 line which you attach a tyre inflator to. The type like the ones at the servo which seal off when they are removed from holding them on the valve.
Once the filler is inserted into the bottle you give it squirt of CO2 into the valve whilst allowing a little bit of gas to escape past the stopper to purge the bottle. Then hold the stopper firmly into the bottle and pressurise it with CO2, take the CO2 off and the bottle stays pressurised while you keep pushing the stopper into the bottle. Then use your free hand to flick the pcinic tap on fully, a little bit of beer will flow into the bottle but not much. To fill the bottle you just relieve pressure out of the bottle by poking the pin of the valve with your thumbnail until the bottle is full to the desired level. Then flick the tap off, pull the filler out of the bottle and quickly cap it.
It sounds complicated but is really easy to do once you get the hang of it, no hydrologists degree is required to operate a simple bachelor of social science is entirely adequate
and it is a true counter pressure filler. I will be honest and admit that I didn't dream it up entirely off my own bat, I got inspiration from a few sites on the net.
You are also welcome to borrow it to try or or I can help you make one.
Cheers ausdb
