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Originally Posted by p1u1n1x1
Hello, this is my first post on this forum and it seems like most of you own purpose built kegerators but maybe you can help me anyway. I just bought a used home-built kegerator setup a few days ago and taped my first keg last night but got about 90% foam on every pour. The keg sat in the fridge for a day before serving and the beer in the glass is coming out at around 40 degrees F. I took the CO2 line off and bled the pressure and then re-attached it with the regulator set to 0 and a tiny trickle of beer came out just from the keg pressure, but if I turn the regulator up even just to 2 psi it starts to come out really foamy and at 2 psi it will fill the glass about 50% with foam. At 12psi it fills the glass in about 2 seconds with almost all foam. The seals on the keg and on the tap look pretty good and I'm sure the regulator is accurate and working fine...anyone have any ideas?
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How long is the beer line from the coupler to the shank? It should be at least 5ft of 3/16 ID hose. Shorter lines give you faster pours, longer lines give you slower pours. You state that the glass fills up in about 2 seconds at 12 PSI. Way too fast. 12PSI is probably ideal for whatever your serving. I would try replaceing the beer line with a 10 footer, and then, if it's pouring too slowly, you can trim a foot at a time off as you see fit. If you can't find a local store that sells beer line, you can order it by the foot from micromatic's beer equipment store on this site.