Our new Keezer - under construction!

[HockeyBoy29]

We bought a 7.0 Costco chest freezer and once we got it home, discovered it would not accommodate 4 ball lock corny kegs. So we emptied out the older whirlpool freezer we were using as an actual freezer and substituted it for the new one. The Whirlpool will accommodate 4 -five gallon and 1 -three gallon (on compressor hump) kegs!

Here are the picks of the build so far:

 

[HockeyBoy29]

Five Perlick 630SS faucets.

I was reading some of the beverage hose length comments and people seem to have longer ones than I had calculated. Where is the best source for definitive info? I assume 2.2 pounds resistance per foot, planning 40-42 degrees F, and about 2.5-2.6 volumes CO2.

 

[day_trippr]

Assuming that high a resistance at the flow rates we dispense beer is an incredibly common error - like, found in almost every purported line length calculator out there. And that mistake is responsible for a rather large portion of the posts in the Bottling and Kegging forum from folks that were frustrated with foamy pours.

Fortunately there's one calculator that didn't make that mistake...

Cheers!

 

[HockeyBoy29]

Assuming that high a resistance at the flow rates we dispense beer is an incredibly common error - like, found in almost every purported line length calculator out there. And that mistake is responsible for a rather large portion of the posts in the Bottling and Kegging forum from folks that were frustrated with foamy pours.

Fortunately there's one calculator that didn't make that mistake...

Cheers!

Wow, thanks for the heads-up. I had calculated out about 5.6 ft and it seemed short compared to others’ setups. I appreciate the link and will redo my beverage-out lines.

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

I have 6 foot lines in my Keezer I run them at 10lbs my beer pours nice

 

[day_trippr]

There are always inexplicable outliers that obfuscate the physics, but if you hang out on hbt long enough you'll see the folks that post the "Help! My pours are all foam" are almost always using similarly short lines, and their problems (assuming they were balance issues and not clogged poppets or diptubes or disconnect/frozen keg or lines/missing or damaged Out dip tube O-rings) were consistently resolved by using 1 foot of 3/16" conventional (solid pvc) beer line per psi of dispensing pressure...

Cheers!

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

3 Taps all 6 foot lines to a tower using short shanks to Perlick faucets they poor nice unless I over carbonate she holds an extra keg chilled so if on runs dry I always have a reserve ready to go and don't run out of beer. This happens to work for me and my set up I don't pretend to know the science behind it

 

[HockeyBoy29]

3 Taps all 6 foot lines to a tower using short shanks to Perlick faucets they poor nice unless I over carbonate she holds an extra keg chilled so if on runs dry I always have a reserve ready to go and don't run out of beer. This happens to work for me and my set up I don't pretend to know the science behind it

That’s a thing of beauty!