Cider Digest #1721

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Subject: Cider Digest #1721, 19 July 2012 
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Cider Digest #1721                                         19 July 2012 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

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  Beer Gun (Dick Dunn) 

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Subject: Beer Gun 
From: Dick Dunn <rcd@talisman.com> 
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:59:16 -0600 

In the last Cider Digest, B. Baker commented: 

> ...I am currently experimenting with a rather good hard 
> cider that I would love to be able to bottle directly from kegs, having 
> force carbonated said cider in stainless kegs.  My original plan was 
> to bottle this cider with a gizmo called a beer gun.  Anyone 
> having experienced this frustrating apparatus probably through it as far 
> over the nearest hill as I did... 

I've used the BeerGun to bottle a few dozen cases of this'n'that.  It 
takes a little getting-used-to, but it's worked OK for me.  Used it last 
night for 5 cases (3x12, 2x24 bottles) of a sparkling raspberry melomel. 

It won't work well with high carbonation levels nor if there's a strong 
tendency to foam.  Last night's mead came out of three kegs, of which 
one was overcarbonated so slightly tricky.  The other two were fine. 

And obviously it's not what you want if you're needing to bottle a hundred 
cases.  (But then, neither is a manual CPF.)  Still, it does a good job 
for me.  I've not used a regular CPF much, but the sort of design with 
valves that require a quarter-turn for each open or shut feels like a 
wrist-wrecker.  By contrast the BeerGun valves are both spring-loaded 
finger triggers. 

What did you find to be the problem with the BeerGun? 

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Dick Dunn          rcd@talisman.com          Hygiene, Colorado  USA 

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