Draught Troubleshooting Guide
Clean your lines at least once every two weeks. Cleaning and rinsing beer lines regularly is essential to serving a consistently great tasting beer.
Wild/Foamy Beer
- Beer Temperature is too Warm- Cooler should be 36-38 degrees
- Frozen Classes
- Kinks or Obstruction in Beer hose
- Beer line systems not properly refrigerated or insulated
- Beer drawn improperly
- Tap/faucets broken, leaking, or dirty
- Too much CO2 pressure
Flat Beer
- Beer too cold
- Glasses are not “beer-ready” clean
- Not enough CO2 pressure
- Sluggish (broken) pressure regulator
- Air compressor used for pressure
Cloudy Beer
- Beer frozen in dispensing system
- Beer has been frozen in barrel
- Old beer hose in poor condition
- Beer lines not properly cleaned
- Contaminated pressure source
Off-Tasting Beer
- Glasses not “beer-ready” clean
- Sanitizer remains on glasses (often when frozen)
- Beer lines not properly cleaned
- Oily air; greasy kitchen air
- Old draught, kegs not rotated
- Contaminated pressure source
No Pour
- Keg is not tapped properly
- Keg is empty
- Kinks or obstruction in CO2 line
- The gas is turned off
- The lines are frozen
- The gas supply is exhausted
Still unable to rectify the problem? Please call your Sales Representative or contact [email protected].