sidepart
Well-Known Member
I went the extra mile to grab 2 Perlick Flow control faucets. I was led to believe that this would give me some flexibility in the beers I'd like to pour and negate the need to really balance my draft lines. Everything I've poured so far is almost total foam though, no matter how much I'm restricting the flow.
My lines are currently balanced for a CO2 setting of about 10PSI (around 2.6 vols of CO2). I have a hefeweizen on tap now that I've carbed to around 3.5 vols. Normally this would require a longer line to pour, but my understanding was that with flow control faucets you could simply turn down the flow and this would prevent foam. Not my experience so far. I blew through nearly a gallon of beer just trying to unsuccessfully fill a growler.
Maybe I was mislead or my expectations were too great and you need to have a slightly more balanced draft line? This is my first kegerator/draft setup, so maybe I'm putting this together wrong? I did note that It sounded like there was some cavitation at the interface between the nipple with the beverage line and where that presses to the shank. The beer in the actual line is solid, no bubbles that I can see. It just foams up somewhere in the shank.
My lines are currently balanced for a CO2 setting of about 10PSI (around 2.6 vols of CO2). I have a hefeweizen on tap now that I've carbed to around 3.5 vols. Normally this would require a longer line to pour, but my understanding was that with flow control faucets you could simply turn down the flow and this would prevent foam. Not my experience so far. I blew through nearly a gallon of beer just trying to unsuccessfully fill a growler.
Maybe I was mislead or my expectations were too great and you need to have a slightly more balanced draft line? This is my first kegerator/draft setup, so maybe I'm putting this together wrong? I did note that It sounded like there was some cavitation at the interface between the nipple with the beverage line and where that presses to the shank. The beer in the actual line is solid, no bubbles that I can see. It just foams up somewhere in the shank.