I attempted to put Guinness on my kegerator yesterday for the first time. It did not go smoothly, unfortunately. The beer would pour in foamy spurts that were quite messy. To be specific - it would just be pouring foam - and then a high velocity spurt of more foam would launch - and then it'd resume slowly pouring foam again. It would take maybe 5 minutes of settling before anything besides foam was visible in the glass.
Some notes about my setup:
Kegerator: Beverage-Air BM23
Gas: 40 cubic foot, 25% CO2/75% N2
Pressure: ~32 PSI (see notes)
Coupler: Taprite CH5300U-SS
Faucet: Taprite SF2003
gas hose: 5/16" ID vinyl, maybe 8 feet
beer hose: 3/16" ID vinyl, maybe 7 feet
Temperature: around freezing (see notes)
The coupler is brand new. Everything else has been used before and works fine (the stout faucet has not been used for beer though - only used with nitro coffee pushed with pure N2). I noticed that my drain container (as in, what my drain drains into, inside of kegerator) had ice in it - so I set the temperature to be a bit warmer and will check again on it in a day. I tried adjusting the pressure between 25PSI and 40PSI and did not really see any improvement in the spurting. I've left it at 32 PSI. One interesting thing that I noticed was that when I connected the coupler to the keg I did not immediately see beer rush into the beer lines. I am used to seeing that when connecting a new keg. With the higher pressure involved here - I definitely expected that. I only saw beer flow into the beer lines when I operated the faucet. Further, I can see big gas bubbles in the beer hose.
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!
Some notes about my setup:
Kegerator: Beverage-Air BM23
Gas: 40 cubic foot, 25% CO2/75% N2
Pressure: ~32 PSI (see notes)
Coupler: Taprite CH5300U-SS
Faucet: Taprite SF2003
gas hose: 5/16" ID vinyl, maybe 8 feet
beer hose: 3/16" ID vinyl, maybe 7 feet
Temperature: around freezing (see notes)
The coupler is brand new. Everything else has been used before and works fine (the stout faucet has not been used for beer though - only used with nitro coffee pushed with pure N2). I noticed that my drain container (as in, what my drain drains into, inside of kegerator) had ice in it - so I set the temperature to be a bit warmer and will check again on it in a day. I tried adjusting the pressure between 25PSI and 40PSI and did not really see any improvement in the spurting. I've left it at 32 PSI. One interesting thing that I noticed was that when I connected the coupler to the keg I did not immediately see beer rush into the beer lines. I am used to seeing that when connecting a new keg. With the higher pressure involved here - I definitely expected that. I only saw beer flow into the beer lines when I operated the faucet. Further, I can see big gas bubbles in the beer hose.
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!
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