Newbie, please help.

[chrisot]

Hey, I'm new here and have the inevitable foam question. I just bought a new house and made the sellers include the kegerator in the deal. It is a Beverage Air. I have read all the posts, but am still unsure about something. I have everything hooked up, the temp is fine, and the CO2 is set at 12psi. I took the tube inside and hooked it into the tower (which I'm assuming is the cylinder coming out of the unit to the tap). I keep reading about the need to have 5 feet of tubing. Where? The tube coming down from the tap into the keg? This tube is only about a foot long. The tubes to and from the regulator? These also are only about a foot long. Could someone please inform me what I should do? Thanks in advance.
By the way, I bought a 1/4 keg of Miller Light. I know it sucks, but I didn't want to ruin a good beer, since this is my first time hooking everything up.

[celo626]

Hi Chrisot...

I think you will need more tubing running from the draft tower to the tap. It will allow the beer to make its way out of the keg a bit slower, and hopefully moderate the foam factor. The other thing you should check is weather or not the tower is cooled or not. If you think about it ... perfect kegerator temp inside, but if the tower is not cooled, you get cold keg beer hitting warm air causing an expansion (foam) right before it comes out the faucet.

- Celo626

[lunkhead]

This should help explain it a little better.
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-...eo-aid-76.html