Hello all,
So I may be stupid. Truly a dummy. Or maybe not. I don't know. All I know is, I've purchased two separate systems for pouring kegged beer, and I've had the same problem with each one. Foamy beer and flat kegs.
For further clarification, a couple months ago I purchased a kegerator conversion kit from KegCo. Not to build a kegerator, but just to keep a 1/6 keg carbonated at a little remote vacation with friends. At the time I had very little knowledge of all the factors that could affect the final pour quality. The beer line in this system is just a metal pipe about 1.5 feet long and I had attached that straight to the coupler. Pressured it to 10psi. Of course this produced very foamy beer. I went ahead and turned off the pressure, bled what was in the keg, and put it back up to something much lower. Could never really get it to work but never bought longer tubing as I figured my planned purchase of a full triple tap kegerator would resolve my issues doing it at home and could work backwards from there. It arrived last weekend with five feet for each tap, went out for a refrigerated keg that I let chill and settle in my own kegerator for several hours. Tapped and pressured to 10psi and, still, got excessive foam. Tonight, dropped pressure to 5psi and bled excess. If I pour off about about 40+oz of foam, which settles into about a pint of very flat beer, I can get nearly 12oz of slightly carbonated beer in a 20oz mug. If let to rest for an hour, I'm back to wasting massive amounts of the stuff. That's all still at 5psi. Interchanged regulators from both system and tanks from both systems. Longer beer lines, 10ft each, arriving tomorrow but posting here now because I'm thinking that the issue is with something I'm doing, not any of my equipment. Pours are faster than they should be, discounting foam pour offs for a good looking pint with an acceptable head, about 6 seconds at 5psi.
New to this forum, truly appreciate any suggestions. Not a homebrewer, (yet), just trying to provide a better way to drink beer for myself, my father, and guests. I've been working with a 1/6bbl keg of Budweiser so as not to mess up any of the nicer stuff while I get it worked out, if that matters. Hoping that through this struggle I can start becoming an expert with the thing.
So I may be stupid. Truly a dummy. Or maybe not. I don't know. All I know is, I've purchased two separate systems for pouring kegged beer, and I've had the same problem with each one. Foamy beer and flat kegs.
For further clarification, a couple months ago I purchased a kegerator conversion kit from KegCo. Not to build a kegerator, but just to keep a 1/6 keg carbonated at a little remote vacation with friends. At the time I had very little knowledge of all the factors that could affect the final pour quality. The beer line in this system is just a metal pipe about 1.5 feet long and I had attached that straight to the coupler. Pressured it to 10psi. Of course this produced very foamy beer. I went ahead and turned off the pressure, bled what was in the keg, and put it back up to something much lower. Could never really get it to work but never bought longer tubing as I figured my planned purchase of a full triple tap kegerator would resolve my issues doing it at home and could work backwards from there. It arrived last weekend with five feet for each tap, went out for a refrigerated keg that I let chill and settle in my own kegerator for several hours. Tapped and pressured to 10psi and, still, got excessive foam. Tonight, dropped pressure to 5psi and bled excess. If I pour off about about 40+oz of foam, which settles into about a pint of very flat beer, I can get nearly 12oz of slightly carbonated beer in a 20oz mug. If let to rest for an hour, I'm back to wasting massive amounts of the stuff. That's all still at 5psi. Interchanged regulators from both system and tanks from both systems. Longer beer lines, 10ft each, arriving tomorrow but posting here now because I'm thinking that the issue is with something I'm doing, not any of my equipment. Pours are faster than they should be, discounting foam pour offs for a good looking pint with an acceptable head, about 6 seconds at 5psi.
New to this forum, truly appreciate any suggestions. Not a homebrewer, (yet), just trying to provide a better way to drink beer for myself, my father, and guests. I've been working with a 1/6bbl keg of Budweiser so as not to mess up any of the nicer stuff while I get it worked out, if that matters. Hoping that through this struggle I can start becoming an expert with the thing.
