[slats]

I'm curious....those of you who enter your beers in competitions - do you bottle condition or force carbonate in a keg and then fill your comp bottles from the keg?

Thanks in advance for your input!

[smkranz]

Obviously, bottling from a keg is what you have to do if you kegged that particular batch.

But wanting to enter a beer in a competition is irrelevant to whether I bottle condition a beer or keg it, except if the beer is still in a barrel or conical and a competition is coming up soon.  In that case getting it reliably carbonated in a keg first and then bottling with the Beer Gun is the way to go.  I won't enter beers that are not already carbonated exactly how I want them before they go out the door to a comp.

[mainebrewer]

Since I keg almost all of my beer, I used a beer gun to fill bottles for comps.

[Jimmy K]

I see both in competitions and can't say one is better than the others.

[brewinhard]

I keg ALL my beers including sours and sour blends (done through closed transfers).  Ergo, I beer gun my bottles for competitions.