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Does any one have a Blichman Beer Gun I could borrow for a trial run?

Maybe.

Of course the gun owner would receive some of the bottled wares.
A 5 & 7% Wit.

I'm home now if you want it.

I have one and can bring it i tomorrow if you still need one.

I wasn't expecting such a quick response. Just proof of this great club.
I still have to keg and carbonate the beer(s). Best case senerio for me would be to borrow the gun for this weekend, or early next week. But if either of you don't have any plans to use it before the meeting next week, I'll take it now and return it then.

Whatever is easiest for ya bud.

hey john,
is the beer gun worth getting one of my own.

ritchie

Ritchie wrote:hey john,
is the beer gun worth getting one of my own.

ritchie

I've had mine a couple months and I've yet to take it out of the box. I'm sure I'll break it out one of these days, but in the meantime when I'm ready to keg, I just bottle condition a few using Cooper's carbonation drops.

hey I did the same thing; keg and beer drop the rest in bottles.

ritchie

I borrowed the beer gun, but didn't use it. I just used my old tried an true method of just shoving a short piece of tubing into the end of the cobra tap and bottling that way. I was lazy as usual, and didn't want to sanitize another piece of equipment to touch the beer since everything I bottle from the keg has already been tapped for tasting (sometimes for extended times). I pretty much think the beer gun and a piece of tubing shoved into the end of the cobra tap are the same if you're not purging the bottle first with co2 like the other keg-bottle fillers. If John Blichmann would like to let me test drive one for a leisurely cruise for a month or two, I might change my mind...or more importantly his top tier system, I would sing his praises if indeed it met my low standards of "are you gonna buy one or be one?"

Having done both methods, I switched to the beer gun. ;)

I am a big fan of the BeerGun. I have used the B3 counter-pressure bottler and the tube-in-faucet. The BeerGun leaves both in the dust. It will bottle with very little or no foaming consistently. I still use the tube-in-faucet if I just want to bottle a few bottles, but for anything more I break out the BG.

Another fan of the "gun" I keep a corny full of sanitizer and just hook the whole thing up after I'm done bottling and just run the sanitizer through it...easy cleaning. Never had any problems yet.