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    Completed 2.5 kegs , 3 taps

    Here is my newly completed Keezer. No collar so will hold two full kegs with a 1/2 size keg for soda water on the compressor hump. The gas tank and regulators get mounted outside on the wall out of site. Still to be done is burn some sort of picture onto the front.
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    How do I know if I broke my regulator?

    Update - Last weekend I bought a commercial keg and hooked it all up. Had a few beers Saturday night and beer was perfect BUT I had to turn regulator down to around 6 to get a pour that was not all foam. Its not overcarbed and was perfect pour with the low psi. I turned it back up to 12 and left...
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    How do I know if I broke my regulator?

    In response to the overcarbing i went out and bought a 5 gallon keg of commercial beer. Switched over to a sanke style tap setup to see what would happen. With the perfect carbed keg of commercial beer i still have to run at around 5 psi. Anything higher and the beer is flying from the tap...
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    How do I know if I broke my regulator?

    For force carbing I cranked it up to about 40 psi, shook rattle and rolled it for about 3 minutes then turned it back down to 12 psi and put it in the fridge all hooked up. All my lines are in the fridge so everything is the same temp. Now unless I turn my psi down to around 4 it pours real...
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    How do I know if I broke my regulator?

    I was trying the force carb method and I think I broke my regulator. I have 10 ft lines at 5 celius (41 F) and I now have to turn my regulator pressure down to around 4 to serve beer or I get a glass of foam?? By force carbing did I let beer get back into the regulator and wreck it? Is that...
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