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].