Keg Taps
Draft Beer: the best of the brewer's art!
In the past beer kegs were wooden barrels and beer was released simply by using gravity and air. Today kegs are sterile stainless steel containers and pure gases are used to drive beer out of the keg. Nowadays we "tap" the keg by inserting a coupler into the keg valve. The keg valve and coupler are a matching system - not unlike a lock and key. Why five different systems? Besides markings on the keg, it helps identify a brewery’s cooperage (kegs) so they are returned for re-filling.
The five basic keg systems available today: Click here for the Beer Keg, Coupler, Pump Cross Reference List "Cross Reference List."
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