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Just wondering if anyone else dose this; When I batch prime I take my little hand held CO2 gun and give the LBK a couple of shots of CO2 to help remove the O2 from the keg. I'm going to buy a Brewtech temp control fermenter and know I'll transfer my beer to a bottle bucket for batch priming. Just wondering if anyone purges the bottling bucket before transfer?

I've never purged the bottling bucket before priming. I just transferred to the bottling bucket and began bottling right away. But I was very careful during the transfer, not letting it splash at the bottom. I figured it wasn't in the bottling bucket much longer than an hour or so.

Same here. I can't see O2 being an issue in this instance.

Can't hurt, I did not bottle for long, but read somewhere not sure if it was on HBT or John Palmers book, but that was mentioned, I even posted here when I read it asking how would you purge the bottling bucket. I started kegging pretty quick so it has been quite a while.

Unnecessary step.

I see that it could be unnecessary, it just seems that it will not hurt so guess I'll continue, just thought I would get someone that do this so I wouldn't feel like I'm taking my beer brewing to extremes.

Anything you can do to prevent oxidation once the beer is fermented is helpful. But I doubt you'll really tell you've done anything.
If what you've been doing has given you good beers you enjoy, keep doing it.

Beer-lord wrote:Anything you can do to prevent oxidation once the beer is fermented is helpful. But I doubt you'll really tell you've done anything.
If what you've been doing has given you good beers you enjoy, keep doing it.

^^^^^^^^^What he said^^^^^^^^^^^