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Originally Posted by Sorce
Do you make and bottle some and put the others in the keg or some combo? I've poured from the keg and capped on top of the foam but that was only when I was taking the beer somewhere to drink that night.
I've always found the idea of bottling to be tedious. I'd love to be able to keep some of my brews past the keg running out but didn't want all the work of putting it all in bottles.
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Depends on the beer. Since I do 10gal batches usually I may bottle some and keg some. I have 5-5gal kegs and a 2.5gal keg so sometimes I keg 7.5gal and bottle 2.5gal. (you can buy carbonation tablets to put in the bottles rather than adding sugar to the beer prior to bottling.
Also when I bottle I almost always use bombers to cut down on the number of bottles I have to mess with.
My brother got me a beer gun for Christmas so I can fill battles of my keg and purge the oxygen and hit them with CO2, this is supposed to allow bottles filled of the keg to last 6 months or so.