Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Factors To Assist You To Be A Specialist In Bottling And Kegging

By Matthew Campbell


When doing kegging and bottling, preservation of carbon is very crucial. In fact, that is the main thing you have to worry about. Carbonated drinks usually form a lot especially when you are dispensing. In the end, you remain with half of the drink and foam on top. The article highlights vital elements about bottling and kegging.

To avoid problems with pressure when filling up bottles and most of the carbonated drinks you should use bottle fillers. These fillers simply eliminate the oxygen from the drink and induce carbon dioxide and finally pushes the drink down the bottle by way of levers and valves. The prices of fillers start from $90 and up depending on the company and functionality of the device.

Getting the counter pressure filler obviously depends on your bottling needs. For instance, when you are a home brewer who needs to bottle a few cans of beer every few days or so, it might not be sensible to look for expensive counter pressure filler. There are techniques you can use to bottle the liquids without losing the carbonation.

The first thing, there are two elements that you need to always keep in mind before you begin this process and these are pressure and temperature. When the liquid is warmer, the gas is easily expelled than when the liquid is chilled. This can easily be proven. A lot of foam comes out when you pour warm soda into a glass, and the contrary happens when you pour cold soda.

The trick that can assist you when bottling few containers of soda, therefore, lies in making sure that before you transfer the bottles, the temperature of that liquid is greatly reduced. If possible refrigerate the liquid to near freezing before you try to transfer the liquid from one container to another. The process is as simple as funneling the liquid from one container to the other.

To make this drink safe for consumption you should make sure that the bottle in which you are transferring the drink to is clean and sterilized. This should be done before adding anything to the bottle. Also after cleaning ensure that you cover the opening with an aluminum foil to prevent contamination.

A long straight tube will help you with the transfer process. Just take the chilled liquid and transfer it from the larger container like the keg to the bottles that you had cleaned up. This process should be simple and turbulence-free as long as the liquid is chilled.

Also, in cases where you are not certain of the procedures you undertook, or if the carbonation was retained, then it will be a good idea to make sure that the drink is consumed within 24hours of bottling. You should know that carbonation is one of the ways that the drink is conserved and thus if the gas escapes it jeopardizes the safety of the drink to consumption.




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