Smithwicks?

[PGMaine]

I just returned from Ireland where I enjoyed a great deal of Smithwicks and have been thinking about getting it for my next keg. I have read a few people here allude to Smithwicks requiring mixed gas. I am wondering whether I can run this with straight CO2 and if anyone knows the approximate level? Thanks.

[TAPMAN]

Smithwicks should run fine on your system if you have no problems running other beers. You will need a '' U '' coupler ( the same as Guinness ), but straight CO2 will work. Tapman

[PGMaine]

I already have a U coupler as I run Harp fairly often and my system has run perfectly for any of the beers I have put through. I assume usual levels of pressure?

[edramshaw]

Usual pressures will work for Smithwicks.

[PGMaine]

Thank you all for the help.

[robalf]

So I have a guinness, guiness gas and U tap, set up and a regular, sankay and Co2 double tap. I had beer emergency and had to get smithwicks instead of the micorbrew I had ordered. So I hooked smithwicks up in place of my guiness tap, but it is REALLY foamy. I had looked up online a while back and supposedly you could do use guiness gas. Is ther a setting or something that I can do. I was thinking it was becuase I hooked it up right before the party and maybe it was shook up. Next day though it still seems too foamy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob

[Scott Zuhse]

Smithwick will not dispense from a stout faucet if this is what you are attempting. At 38F beer in keg, 100% CO2 around 13 PSIG dispensed from a conventional faucet should do. Does not require blend.

[skibumdc]

Why can't he just remove the restrictor disk from the stout faucet and use it that way?
It will then just look like a stout faucet but pour like a regular faucet?

[Scott Zuhse]

Both the restrictor plate and flow straightener would require removal. Since the spout diameter is smaller than a conventional faucet, flow speed may be quicker than desired. May not be an issue.