Originally posted by morrillt
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As far as hard numbers on O2, I haven't the foggiest. If you can afford a good DO meter, you can probably afford a better bottle filler. Hioh! All I can say is this thing works pretty well. As far as it being worse than a Meheen, it's a lot worse. Is a Meheen $60,000 better? Doubtful. Definitely not for a little brewery like mine. What's scary is how horrible ANY bottling system can be if used impatiently, improperly or irresponsibly. The basic functions are the same, there's just a handful of things you have to do to baby this sort of thing. Any brewer with any kind of machine has DO horror stories.
We bottled a Red that had been sitting on draft for a bit as a test for the fillers so we didn't waste any of the expensive barrel aged beer we were bottling. Those Red bottles all got filled and then were all put in various scenarios for torture testing. For about three months they were stored in Hot, bright, improper storage areas as well as cellar and cold room storage. The results were pretty damn impressive if you ask me. Very little difference in beers from each area they were aged in. In a blind test there were obvious differences but none that was clearly the "worst." No oxidation characteristics outside of normal aging for a 3 month old fairly hoppy beer.
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