hi! i've been lurking here forever but *SEARCH* usually answers any questions i have until today..
so i bought an older model edgestar from a guy on kijiji about 8 or 9 months ago ( shhh... i know :\ )
it has worked pretty well so far, i've always thought it could be a bit colder but i just keep the pressure a bit higher
so it's never been enough of an issue to bother with a screwdriver and all that
my partner and i drink a lot of beer and have people over so we easily go through a keg in 7-10 days .. we usually get our beer from a microbrew who will put a batch directly into, or transfer it into one of our own three kegs we keep on rotation
when i went to pick up our latest batch they hadn't transfered it into our keg and they just told me to take it in theirs knowing i'd bring it back..
well, this is the first absolute nightmare beer we've had since we started going by the keg.. it's like i centimeter of beer in a pint of foam.. if it's been sitting a while (overnight) it literally pours like soft serve .. even if we pour it into a pitcher or a couple growlers.. it's just awful
tonight i bit the bullet and took the thermostat apart to recalibrate it or whateve (very anxiety inducing.. waiting for the thing to come back on after tinkering with it) .. but i reckon i won't see any difference (if it makes any difference) for a day or two
my question (finally!!) is: could the borrowed keg have anything to do with this? like i said.. we've gone through several kegs a month with no problem and it's always one of the same three kegs.. the wild card in this new foam situation is the borrowed keg..
"possibly stupid" bonus question: could the coupling be wrong? is it possible to use the wrong tap on a keg and have it "sort of" work?
just to emphasize .. i've been lurking this forum since before we got the fridge.. with excellent results! i know the drill of keeping the temperature, and the pressure, and the lines clean, and the glass.., etc. it's just this latest keg i'm not discounting the fact that it's just a massive coincidence that the fridge bit the dust the exact day we got a wildcard keg.. but i'm suspicious .. i have an regular refrigerator ambient thermometer on top of the keg and a cup of water with a floating thermometer at the bottom so i will open it up in a day or two and offer an update.. in the meantime if anyone has any info or advice it would be much loved
thanks for all the great advice so far
so i bought an older model edgestar from a guy on kijiji about 8 or 9 months ago ( shhh... i know :\ )
it has worked pretty well so far, i've always thought it could be a bit colder but i just keep the pressure a bit higher
so it's never been enough of an issue to bother with a screwdriver and all that
my partner and i drink a lot of beer and have people over so we easily go through a keg in 7-10 days .. we usually get our beer from a microbrew who will put a batch directly into, or transfer it into one of our own three kegs we keep on rotation
when i went to pick up our latest batch they hadn't transfered it into our keg and they just told me to take it in theirs knowing i'd bring it back..
well, this is the first absolute nightmare beer we've had since we started going by the keg.. it's like i centimeter of beer in a pint of foam.. if it's been sitting a while (overnight) it literally pours like soft serve .. even if we pour it into a pitcher or a couple growlers.. it's just awful
tonight i bit the bullet and took the thermostat apart to recalibrate it or whateve (very anxiety inducing.. waiting for the thing to come back on after tinkering with it) .. but i reckon i won't see any difference (if it makes any difference) for a day or two
my question (finally!!) is: could the borrowed keg have anything to do with this? like i said.. we've gone through several kegs a month with no problem and it's always one of the same three kegs.. the wild card in this new foam situation is the borrowed keg..
"possibly stupid" bonus question: could the coupling be wrong? is it possible to use the wrong tap on a keg and have it "sort of" work?
just to emphasize .. i've been lurking this forum since before we got the fridge.. with excellent results! i know the drill of keeping the temperature, and the pressure, and the lines clean, and the glass.., etc. it's just this latest keg i'm not discounting the fact that it's just a massive coincidence that the fridge bit the dust the exact day we got a wildcard keg.. but i'm suspicious .. i have an regular refrigerator ambient thermometer on top of the keg and a cup of water with a floating thermometer at the bottom so i will open it up in a day or two and offer an update.. in the meantime if anyone has any info or advice it would be much loved
thanks for all the great advice so far
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