Beer Forum

Does anyone have a beergun? I got one for Christmas and it worked great the first two times I used it. This time around I am getting alot of foam. My bottles are cold, little head pressure, ect. Any suggestions?

What is different this time than last time?

Perhaps the beer is more carbonated now?

Is the beer gun and its tubing cold?

I find having the bottles both wet and cold helps. Most definitely don't freeze the bottles, though.

You might try having the bottles higher than the keg to add a little more back pressure.

That is what has been frusterating, the beer is definately more carbonated. lines are cold as is the gun. Keg is lower than the filling point. Once you let go of the trigger, you can see foam want to back up the line.

Perhaps you have built up some smeg on the sealing part of the tip that is causing turbulance and a failure to seal tightly.

You could lower your pressure when filling, then bring it back up again. A pain, but it helps. But even easier is just increasing your line length. I recently went with 10 foot hoses on all of my serving taps and it helped the beer foaming immensely. The "effective" tip pressure is lower when beer is flowing fast.

When using my beer gun I reduce the co2 gauge to 3 psi then let the pressure out of the keg to match. I then use a 10 liquid hose for the filling. Foam has not been much of an issue for me. Is that the same way your doing it?

I recently got a BeerGun, so I'm certainly no expert with it. However, I just keep everything as cold as possible and minimize my CO2 as much as I'll tolerate 5-7psi. Seems to work pretty good but I've never bottled a high carbonation beer with the gun yet though.

Wichitabrewer

as much as I hate to try and fix those things ... Check your clamps, they may be letting in air or leaking CO2?

Go ghetto! Here's my poor boy cpf. Works great.



But, now, here is something that has irking my for a while:

When filling bottles, whether it be with a cpf or standard wand filler, piece of tube or whatever. You have to fill it to the rim in order to have the proper head space in the bottle when you remove the tubing/pipe. Why then should we bother purging the bottle with co2 first? The liquid level will push all the co2 out, and suck in air when you remove the filler. Just a thought.