Now that's the kind of crazy s--- thinking that I like to see coming out of our Grand Masters... Steve, have you used this method of "in the bottle" force carbonation chamber? In theory, it should work. In reality, I don't know. What happens when the corny is opened? You gotta cap them, fast. At what temp/pressure are you setting these at? I'm guessing I would go something like 20 psi, knowing it would never hit that in the bottle, for a week at 34F, hoping for a 10-12psi result. I would still probably move the uncarbonated beer into a cleaned, sterilized, and purged with CO2 corny, then use the CPBF (counter pressure bottle filler) to deliver the beer to the sterilized bottles as part of the CPBF process is to purge the O2 with CO2, then put the uncapped bottled into a cleaned, sterilized, purged corny. Andrew --- Steve Piatz <piatz(a)cray.com> wrote:

Now THIS is beer geekitude run amok! Comments below. On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Andrew Ruggles wrote: My guess is, yes, you've got to cap them fast, but as long as you do that quickly they will remain CO2-purged and oxygen-free. When they are suddenly reduced back down to 1 atmosphere of pressure, the liquid will immediately start giving off its excess dissolved CO2, thereby preventing the introduction of oxygen. But the tiny surface area in the neck of the bottle will not allow that to happen too quickly, which will give you a little time. Presumably you're good enough at bottling to cap 6 bottles fast. If some foam develops spontaneously, all the better - the bubbles in beer foam contain pure CO2, and a cap squished down over foam is making an oxygen-free seal. One thing that might help here is to have ice water in the bottom of that corny keg, and set the keg itself into a bucket of ice water, to make sure the bottles stay as cold as possible until you actually cap them. That will slow the release of the CO2 you just worked so hard to get into them. It might be more interesting to experiment on this kind of thing with a beer that is not your every-drop-is-precious eisbock. Roger Deschner rogerd(a)uic.edu ============== "Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour. =============== ============ Teach a man to brew and he wastes a lifetime." ============