Bottling/carbonating

[Bob421]

I have been trying to find an after the yard work beer replacement using my neutrals. I think I have found it in a mixture of lemonade and limeade, very refeshing. I want to try and bottle it in crown top beer bottles so it is easy to grab a cold one at the end of the end of a hot day of yard work. Anyone know if this will work. How long can I expect it to last.
Next at some point I would like to carbonate it using a corny keg setup. My idea is to carbonate it over a couple off weeks, decant it into beer bottles and cap them. I think it should end up at least a little bit carbonated. But I don't know anything about carbonating beverages. Everything I find on force carbonating has to do with beer and I have never seen where anyone carbonated in a keg and then bottled it Must lose a lot of co2 in the process or it seems to me that folks would be doing it a lot.
I hate to get setup with a keg and then find out it wont work. I could just decant out of a keg into a glass, but there is something about a cold long neck bottle that appeals to me on a hot summer day.
Anyone ever done either the bottling or the carbonation?
Thanks
Bob

[Dnderhead]

that can be done, carbonate in keg, cool as low as possible (even bottles) then slowly lower pressure in keg leaving just enough to push the product out,, fill bottles from bottom up as not to aerate. two people are better as one can fill and one cap so and not letting the bottles warm up.

[rubber duck]

Yep it works just fine. I bottle off my kegs all the time. What I do is attach a length of 1/2in hose strait to my tap. The trick to doing it right is to fill the bottle and put the cap on loosely, then hold the cap on with your thumb and tip it upside down for a sec. this expels all the air out of the bottle then you just cap.

This will tell you everything you ever wanted to know on the subject.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-n ... gun-24678/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[mrhooch]

Yes you can force carbonate beer or anything for that matter. You can also carbonate in the keg. Need a bottle of CO2 and a regulator. You need to check up on the internet for exact numbers, but you pressurize with CO2 to somewhere between 7 - 15 lbs. Takes a day or two to get the CO2 into solution. Drop the pressure, and bottle, and no it doesn't all escape, you do overcarbonate it a bit to compensate for that. I've seen the charts somewheres on the net, some are pretty complex, based on temp, amount of pressurization, and how much carbonation you actually want in your drink.

But then you can carbonate just about anything!!!

Hooch

[Bob421]

Thanks guys!
Great info. Sounds pretty simple.
It will probably take me months to get even this simple setup going.
But I will try to post back to report my results.