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HELP!!!

I've just finished bottling 90 long necks, using a "little bottler" - you know, the hard plastic tube that fits inside your fermenter tap and has the self sealing tip that opens when it contacts the bottom of the bottle. This is a painfully slow process, and I have to find a better way. (and no, I don't want to move to kegs)

Whilst I have found more automated gadgets on the net, such as Ferrari (bad feedback on reliability) & Buon Vino (looks complex and messy), I am hoping to locate a filler gun I used when 1st home brewing almost 20 years ago.

I cannot remember it's name, but I'll try and describe it:
It attached to your tap via flexible tubing. The business end looked like a toy pistol, with a barrell and a trigger. You placed the barrel in the bottle neck, adjusted a collar for fill height, pulled and locked on the trigger, and it began filling, without you having to hold it. It filled automatically until the predertimed level was achieved, then clicked off.

You would then lift the gun, place it in the next bottle, and press the trigger again.

It allowed you to cap and stack your previous bottle whilst the next one filled, reducing the amount of time spent bottling.

If I recall correctly, it was made from a hard plastic and the components were red and white in colour.

Does anyone know what these guns were called, and even better, where they can be sourced from.

thanks folks!

Never seen these before, but a cheaper and more available solution is just to buy a metre or so of clear vinyl tubing from the hardware. Stick one end over your little bottler and the other end in the tap (you'll probably need another very short section of the hard plastic tube). Arrange your bottles in front of and beneath the fermenter, and away you go.

I'm making one out of a picnic tap, some tubing, a rubber bung and the normal bottler you use from the tap.

If it all works as it should I'll post it. The idea is to run a tiny bit of tubing from the picnic tap over the top of the bottler with the bung over the top of the bottler inserted thru it. So when in the bottle at the height the tit hits the bottom of the bottle the bung seals the top to keep in carbonation. Also I'd be chilling down my bottles before doing this to reduce foaming problems.

simple, cheap and should work well enough to fill a bottle with beer.

Chadjaja - think the OP is referring to filling bottles from a fermenter i uncarbed beer.

You are talking about filling from a keg - for that i use a CPBF. Cost me $60 from a local Barossa brewer

hey folks - thanks for your input, but to clarify: I am bottling from a fermenter into bottles, and am looking for a specific device, that allows hands free filling of each bottle - insert gun, press trigger, filling starts (whilst you cap previous bottle), when fill height is reached filling stops automatically, you then pick up gun, place in next bottle, press trigger and repeat the process.

There is (or at least used to be) such a device as described in my original posting.