I personally would have spent the money on Perlick's, chrome or stainless the forward sealed faucets DON'T stick...............Good luckI just bought two of these for my kegerator:
http://www.kegglebrewing.com/Stainless-Faucet-and-Shank-Assembly_p_181.html
(BTW, it's about $1 cheaper to buy the faucet, shank, and assembly all together rather than individual components (go figure))
Did a lot of reading before buying and these got great reviews...long lasting and don't mess with the quality of the brew. I've read a lot of places the the chrome plated brass will give your beer weird off flavors over time. While I have a hard time believing it (as daskin might tell you above), I err on the side of paranoid so I went stainless. It was a $13 increase from the faucets of this same company, but since I found some of the other equipment used and REALLY CHEAP, I was OK with spending a little more on the faucets.
In the end, you're going to build your keezer and it's going to be the best frickin' keezer ever.
Best of luck
WjR
I personally would have spent the money on Perlick's, chrome or stainless the forward sealed faucets stick...............Good luck
Thanks for the advise. I am going Perlicks stainless steel. It seems I have conflicting advise on the forward sealing. Do I want or not want to use forward sealing?
Thanks for the advise. I am going Perlicks stainless steel. It seems I have conflicting advise on the forward sealing. Do I want or not want to use forward sealing?
I install draft systems from a living... Personally I prefer Micromatic over Perlick on almost all of their products and customer service. Take that for what it's worth but both companies standard beer faucets are similar whether brass or ss. Micromatic has released what will become their standard faucet over the next year- it's their new look with 304 ss and it is pretty awesome. 32.95 on their website. But like I said both brands are similar on their current standard faucets.
Thanks for the advise. I am going Perlicks stainless steel. It seems I have conflicting advise on the forward sealing. Do I want or not want to use forward sealing?
Perlicks here. They even have some fancy ones that can help you adjust to your carbonation level, etc. With "flow control" valve built into them.
I install draft systems from a living... Personally I prefer Micromatic over Perlick on almost all of their products and customer service. Take that for what it's worth but both companies standard beer faucets are similar whether brass or ss. Micromatic has released what will become their standard faucet over the next year- it's their new look with 304 ss and it is pretty awesome. 32.95 on their website. But like I said both brands are similar on their current standard faucets.
Btw a sticky faucet can be fixed by a hot- wet wash rag usually- just wrap it around the faucet so it gets warm and wet...
Forward sealing faucets are nice for a homebrewer, which I am. However, I still prefer micromatic over Perlick. As long as your beer system is cleaned, and used on a almost daily bases there shouldn't much sticking. Just my opinion. Nothing wrong with Perlick...
No the new micromatic faucets are not forward sealing- there is a reason for that...
We as brewers spend time and money on maintaining the flavor and quality the way we intended it in our beer. Forward sealing faucets allow the faucet to fill with beer, outside of the refrigeration unit, and most have plastic components. This gives a not as sanitary environment for which bacteria likes to live and grow in- yes it is a small amount but if you drink only once n a while it will effect your beer.
An innovative seat-forward design makes it the most sanitary faucet available anywhere. Because the internal parts are not exposed to air, the traditional sticking of the handle lever and build up of bacteria is eliminated.
o The only non-stainless steel bits in a 525ss are the o-rings. I don't think there's anything in the faucet that will contribute any flavors.
o If the system was clean to begin with, and the beer isn't contaminated, it's a bit of a reach to assume a bit of warmth is going to give rise to critters.
o I'd be surprised if you could fit more than a quarter ounce of beer in a 525.
Bottom line, folks have broken tap handles and even faucet levers on stuck rear-seal faucets. You never hear any of that with Perls...
Cheers!
All good stuff.
I need five faucets for my build. I can see I need to save my pennies.
[...]Most front sealing faucets have plastic slides inside.[...]
day_trippr said:Citation definitely needed.
Perls have no plastic inside, just three O-rings that can contact beer (and one of those is the shank O-ring). The 525 is a marvel of simplicity - there's so little going on in these faucets it's amazing they actually work at all.
Now that Vent-Matic is history, who besides Perlick makes forward sealing faucets?
Cheers!
I give you credit. We don't have any of these in our market that I know of. We do have one similar but with a plastic slide. And Perlick did install a faucet very similar that had 3 very flemsy o rings that would shift and leak at random. You had to have them in there just right to stay sealed- needless to say the esquire grill at sacramento airport called us out to replace these with I believe 18 standard faucets the old standard micromatic ones but I like the Perlick ones as well... IF these were the same faucets...
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