Pour is all foam

**rocketman768** · 03-07-2010, 04:50 AM

So, for my first kegged batch, I force carbed by setting to 30 PSI and shaking until no more CO2 flowed. After putting it in the fridge, the pressure was down to about 15 PSI in a couple of days at 40F. I drew off a couple of pints and got the pressure down to around 10 PSI, and have been maintaining that pressure for the last couple of weeks. However, my pour is still all foam. I have 5 feet of 3/16" beer line for dispensing (it's the midwest supplies keg kit), and from https://www.kegman.net/balance.html, it seems like 9-13 PSI should be the correct serving pressure for this setup.

What am I doing wrong? The beer doesn't seem overly carbonated, and in fact, seems a little undercarbonated.

**JonK331** · 03-07-2010, 05:03 AM

What temp was your beer when you force carbed? I usually shake for 3 minutes. Have never shaked until the CO2 doesn't flow. Can your poor into a pitcher? You may also have some contamination?

kmack747 · 03-07-2010, 05:14 AM

Five feet of line may be a little in the short side. I have 10 feet on mine.

**rocketman768** · 03-07-2010, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JonK331

What temp was your beer when you force carbed? I usually shake for 3 minutes. Have never shaked until the CO2 doesn't flow. Can your poor into a pitcher? You may also have some contamination?

Don't know about the pitcher. There's no contamination though.

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Five feet of line may be a little in the short side. I have 10 feet on mine.

What's your serving pressure with 10 feet of line?

kmack747 · 03-07-2010, 04:30 PM

I have it set for 12 psi at 40°. I could take a foot off my lines because the pour is a little to slow.

How fast is yours poring. It should be a nice gentle flow.

**azscoob** · 03-07-2010, 04:38 PM

I serve my beers between 9 and 13psi depending on the style, I have short hoses(5') as well, some of my foaming issues were from the standard tap faucets, one just made foam constantly, after switching to perlicks the foam subsided, I also have two of the epoxy mixers in the dip tubes of all my kegs, this pretty much fixed my foaming problems, a warm tower also makes for foam on my first pour, this is being corrected soon once I get some air moving into that tower to keep it cool.

**rocketman768** · 03-07-2010, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by kmack747

I have it set for 12 psi at 40°. I could take a foot off my lines because the pour is a little to slow.

How fast is yours poring. It should be a nice gentle flow.

It's quite fast. I can fill a glass in a 2 or 3 seconds, so this is probably the problem I suppose.

Lunarpancake · 03-07-2010, 11:36 PM

9-12 psi for serving? ....i have 5 feet of 3/16 and i serve at 5psi and still have too much foam...!

**azscoob** · 03-08-2010, 12:47 AM

the epoxy mixers slow the pour way down, before putting two in each dip tube I had a load of foam from my taps and had to serve at 7psi to manage the foam, but the beer slowly decarbed to that level if I forgot to put it back to 10-12psi to keep it properly carbed. Those epoxy things are amazing!

boostsr20 · 03-08-2010, 02:33 AM

Link to "epoxy things" please.