FOAM--Another question
lunkhead, thanks for the advice! I did decide to take the fan directly off of the keg(figured maybe it was blowing too much air onto my coiled up beer line) and I taped the fan on the side of the kegerator, at the same height as the top of my keg, and pointed the fan in the direction of my beer line that's coiled up on my keg. In no time, my temp at the top of my keg is now the same as the bottom, so I feel like that is a victory! So, now I have to try to get down to the foam problem that i'm still having, even after getting the temp the same between the top and bottom of the kegerator, and the beer temp on my 2nd pour. I'm going to go from my 7 ft beer line up to a 10 ft and see if that solves the problem. Would a 7 ft beer line really be the cause of excessive foam? My beer is comming kind of fast out of the tap, but could a longer line that would slow down the pour, also create foam, or would it help? The only other things I can think of is, maybe there's not enough return air getting back down into the kegerator from the beer tower(I probably have a 1 1/2 inch hole going up the beer tower on my Kenmore Kegerator, but with my 1 inch air tube and my 3/16 beer line, it's a little cramped up there, but I do feel air comming back down if I place my hand over the hole! I'm very afraid to do any kind of drilling to the unit, to make the hole bigger, as I don't want to ruin anything!) Or 2, maybe my regulator on my gas gauge is reading 15 psi, but maybe putting out more pressure than 15? The regulator is a single gauge that came with the Kenmore Kegerator, and I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do to check the accuracy of the regulator? I heard something about using a digital tire gauge, but I have no clue what I need to do! Also, could replacing the faucet that came on the Kenmore Kegerator maybe help with the problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
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