Foaming Problem

[majake]

Hey I know there are already a lot of posts about foaming but I've got some symptoms I'm not sure what to do about. My beer is pouring about a 5th of a glass of beer to 4/5th foam right now. I have my keg set up with 5 feet of beer line and the line is coiled nicely on top of the keg. My pressure is at 11psi and my fridge is actually a wine cooler so won't get super cold, which could be part of my problem but not all of it. In theory this should make my beer less carbonated and that would pour better. I notice that in the lines if I don't pour beer for a while air pockets form which I assume is the CO2 coming out of solution. Is this normal to happen in lines or is this a bad thing? Since I can't lower the fridge temperature I thought that based on formulas I read the solution would be to get longer beer lines, but if the beer is losing the CO2 out of it in the lines then longer lines won't help.

I work in a restaurant and checked the pressure of the CO2 regulator there. They keep their beer at 30PSI. The lines are probably close to 50 feet long, and the beer pours perfectly every time. Can anybody explain this? I know that the hosing creates resistance, but from everything I've read so far keeping the keg pressure at 30 psi is certain to result in over-carbonated beer. I should also mention that my restaurant uses strait CO2 like I am. They don't use beer gas.

I also came across this thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/cure-your-short-hose-troubles-100151/. Will that solve my problem or should I get longer lines?

Thanks in advance for your help with this problem,

Jacob

 

[Andrew5329]

All I can say is that a filtered mass market beer is a very different beast than a Homebrew with live yeast inside, so they're not exactly comparable.

I don't have any kegging experience, I just know enough about it that you shouldn't use mass market beer with any number of ajuncts added in as a point of reference.

 

[jfrizzell]

Get longer lines. 10 ft seems to be the norm.

 

[malkore]

Your beer is warmer, so less CO2 wants to dissolve into solution. If the beer was colder, it actually might foam less.

But the main issue is 11psi and only 5feet of tap line. Swap your lines, or get the inserts in that link. I bought 12 and shipping was like 90 cents and they showed up in less than a week.