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].