Another Foam Question

[LongDukDong]

Wasup HBT,

I have a ball lock corny that's pouring 90% foam and pours really slow at 12psi. I have a pin lock on the same gas line that pours just fine. I thought it was the liquid out post/poppet so i swapped it with another and i got the same result. nothing is blocking the dip tube so not sure WTF is going on.

Anyone else have this sh*t happen?

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[azscoob]

could you have a blocked up coupler? dismantle and give it a good cleaning and see if it improves, also verify there isnt a frozen beer line or blockage in the line or faucet. you might also want to swap the dip tube from another keg and see if that improves the flow.

 

[LongDukDong]

Thanks azscoob i'll give that a try.

i'll swap the dip tube and see if that helps but i did use 2 different picnic taps with the same foamy results. Doubt it's ice cuz my kegerator doesnt get that cold and my other brew in the pin lock pours fine. The ball lock has a noticeably slower flow and can see the beer in the line turn from a nice clear beer to pure foam. if all else fails i'll do a keg to keg transfer i guess to resolve the problem.

 

[LongDukDong]

Swapped the dip tubes and still pours foamy. The one thing that's confusing me is how slow the ball lock pours compared to my pin lock keg.

Another piece of info that might help is i "naturally" carbed the beer with 1/2 cup priming sugar. I read that the differences between the pressure and carbonation in the beer would cause foam but slow down the pour?

And i also get huge air bubbles in my beer line too. Not the tiny ones but like gaps in the beer line from the coupler to the tap.

 

[HeyNoPie]

Do these gaps increase over time? When I've seen that, it typically means that the keg is carbed at a higher pressure than the CO2 tank is supplying.

 

[azscoob]

other than a restriction in the coupler, I am clueless, if you have a spare ball lock coupler kicking around try swapping them out and see how that works. of course it could be just an issue with carbing pressure vs. serving pressure causing the issue.

 

[LongDukDong]

First off, thanks again for the reply's but it's time to put this thread to sleep. It was the stupid A!@# coupler/ liquid disconnect, not 1 but 2! After reading through a handful of threads i bent the dip tube in, switched picnic taps, posts, poppets, flattened my primed kegs thinking it was over carbing and even the couplers.

At this point i thought it was the keg and was getting ready to do a transfer and in an effort to not bone myself twice i decided to test a ball lock keg i had previously cleaned & sanitized. I proceeded to fill it with some water, added 10psi and just like the keg with the beer squirt squirt dribble dribble with spiraling air bubbles flowing through the beer line. Went through my previous procedures with testing pressure in keg, pressing poppet with finger to make sure liquid squirts, aligned the dip tube blah..blah...blah... then swapped out the coupler and everything was flowing fine. Mother F!@#$@#...Stupid brand new coupler! After this i tested 4-5 other couplers and found another dud.

I took them apart and they look fine and no blockage of any kind that i could see. Should i just toss them in a fire and sacrifice them to the gods or is there a way to repair them?