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Introducing the revolutionary new Medusa Multihead Counter Pressure Bottle Filler. This unique unit is perfectly designed for the small craft brewer or dedicated home brewer. Finally, a counter pressure filler that can keep up with your bottling needs! Featuring 304 SS construction and high quality components, this unit is built to last. Reduce exposure to oxygen and increase your shelf life by bottling with this counter pressure filler. Both height and fill pressure are easily adjusted for all four filling heads simultaneously. After years of development, we are pleased to be able to offer such an amazing unit, at such a spectacular price! Made in the USA in MoreBeer!'s metal shop.
Features include:
Four separate filling heads
3 way stainless steel valves
Improved PRV has higher accuracy over fill rates, and directs foam into drip tray rather than into your bottles
Removable Drip Tray is fully draining w/ barbed outlet for constant filling & easy cleaning
Robust stainless steel frame stands on it’s own or can be easily bolted or clamped to work surface
Stainless steel fill reservoir keeps fill rates equal & reduces foaming
Easily adaptable to fill from nearly any pressurized vessel
Height is adjustable from shorty bottles to growlers
Easy disassembly for cleaning, storage, & maintenance
Sanitary 1.5" TC inlet for beer, 3/8" tube connection for CO2.
Backpressure Bar allows for a single adjustment point for fill rates, no more adjusting PRVs on each fill head!
Individual Purge Valves on each head allow nearly complete removal of all oxygen in a bottle. Keep your beer fresh longer!
Welded and Assembled in MoreBeer! Pro's USA machine shop
Dimensions:
Footprint - 26-3/8" L x 8" W
Drip tray - 23-1/2" L x 5-1/2" W
Overall height - 25-3/8"
Item #
KEG820
Weight
28
LBS
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Hi, is there any video of someone using it ? Just to get an idea of the beer botteling speed, foam generation, how to connect the lines, tune the PRV, etc. Thank you
It does not come with a pump or a manual. Yet I found the device to be very intuitive to use. You will need two CO2 sources; one to purge the O2 out of the bottles, and the other to pressurize your keg or vessel full of beer that will fill your bottles. I typically purge the bottles with 8 psi CO2, and I pressurize my vessel full of beer to about 10 psi CO2.
The bottler does not require a pump. Flow pressure comes from a CO2 tank hooked to source keg (in our application). This medusa has been a god-send, cutting our filling time significantly.
We hook this bottling machine to a pressurized tank. No pump required. We keep about 5psi pressure to fill bottles (of uncarbonated beer; we bottle condition the beer)
BEST ANSWER:Yes and no. It can only make the bottle so full, yet I find that it over fills by a little bit at that point. So I just manually stop it when it gets to my target fill level. Also it doesn't stop sending beer into the bottle, so the beer will keep going into the bottom of the bottle and then the overflowing beer will go out the top and into the PRV and subsequently into the beer drip tray. I should also point out that the drip tray drain tends to not drain in my experience.
BEST ANSWER:Yes and no. It can only make the bottle so full, yet I find that it over fills by a little bit at that point. So I just manually stop it when it gets to my target fill level. Also it doesn't stop sending beer into the bottle, so the beer will keep going into the bottom of the bottle and then the overflowing beer will go out the top and into the PRV and subsequently into the beer drip tray. I should also point out that the drip tray drain tends to not drain in my experience.
No; the PRV controls the back pressure to allow you to balance the system under isobaric filling conditions.
Opening the PRV will increase flow rate, closing off will slow down the flow/fill rate, useful for balance and controlling foam.
The three way valve on the side of the filling head allows you to stop filling on a particular head and top off manually by opening to either the back pressure header or atmospheric vent.
Yes it will. We have one if these and it leaves about 3/4" headspace before it starts purging foam/beer. Works well, and is easy to adjust fill speed with PRV to control foaming.
Best thing we have in our operation. Allows us to fill bottles very quickly. Doesn't take up space when not in use. Didn't break the bank to buy. I owe the engineers of this unit a keg of cider!
It fills great. Yet there are multiple dead legs, that make cleaning and drying out between uses very labor intensive. The largest dead leg is at the far end of the filling head where it extends far beyond the 4th filling tube. This makes cleaning, rinsing, sanitizing, and removing liquid before introducing beer to the filler very time consuming. Also, the spring for the PRV is not stainless steel, so its important to keep the spring lubed to avoid rusting. It should also be noted that there are zero check valves, so it is important to keep the CO2 purge and counter pressure line pressure slightly less than the head pressure of the vessel you are filling from.
Once you get used to it you are all set. I bottle using corny kegs so got creative to hook it up. This is a legit bottler and after getting the hang of it have quite an assembly line going at my winery & hard cidery. An understanding of counter pressure bottling will help tremendously so if you've been bottling with a single filler then you are ahead of the game! love the build quality and support.Had a few questions and they answered right away. Cheers & Thanks! Ian
