Craft Soup Guzzler
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Hi guys,
Thanks in advance if anyone has any feedback on this. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to show my set-up, but I'll do my best to explain it and hope that's enough.
I am currently running a single line lager set-up, using a one line maxi chiller, and co2 gas along with single gas bottle-mounted regulator. As I serve my lager at events, I turn up and put everything into position, giving it about three hours stationary before I start using it. I cannot seem to get a good pint out of this set-up. The beer seems to massively over-foam, and when I track the beer down the lager line, it seems to be coming out of the keg foaming, so I'm a bit stumped.
The keg is chilled in a pub cellar until the morning of use, so I'm sure the temperature is rising inside the keg, but it is at no point getting very warm. At points I have kept the keg in cold water to try and maintain temperature better. We keep the co2 pressure at approximately 1.2 bar, but have tried a few different pressures, and nothing seems to help too much. The maxi chiller seems to serve its purpose, with the water bath getting ice cold after a while. We also have a flow regulator directly under the tap, at the end of the lager line, but even at its slowest, it doesn't seem to pour a pint particularly well.
We do serve these pints in plastics, which I know isn't ideal for carbonation, but it may be worth adding that the lager can often come out tasting under-fizzy.
Other things to note are that the set-up is cleaned well after use so I would struggle to believe it is down to the maintenance of it. We also don't have any kind of pressure release, if that's a thing. And lastly, from working in pubs, this set-up doesn't have any kind of fob regulator, but in my research, I've been told this wouldn't be necessary, unless someone else thinks otherwise.
Hopefully plenty for an enthusiast to get their teeth round, let me know if I've missed or butchered anything.
Thanks in advance if anyone has any feedback on this. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to show my set-up, but I'll do my best to explain it and hope that's enough.
I am currently running a single line lager set-up, using a one line maxi chiller, and co2 gas along with single gas bottle-mounted regulator. As I serve my lager at events, I turn up and put everything into position, giving it about three hours stationary before I start using it. I cannot seem to get a good pint out of this set-up. The beer seems to massively over-foam, and when I track the beer down the lager line, it seems to be coming out of the keg foaming, so I'm a bit stumped.
The keg is chilled in a pub cellar until the morning of use, so I'm sure the temperature is rising inside the keg, but it is at no point getting very warm. At points I have kept the keg in cold water to try and maintain temperature better. We keep the co2 pressure at approximately 1.2 bar, but have tried a few different pressures, and nothing seems to help too much. The maxi chiller seems to serve its purpose, with the water bath getting ice cold after a while. We also have a flow regulator directly under the tap, at the end of the lager line, but even at its slowest, it doesn't seem to pour a pint particularly well.
We do serve these pints in plastics, which I know isn't ideal for carbonation, but it may be worth adding that the lager can often come out tasting under-fizzy.
Other things to note are that the set-up is cleaned well after use so I would struggle to believe it is down to the maintenance of it. We also don't have any kind of pressure release, if that's a thing. And lastly, from working in pubs, this set-up doesn't have any kind of fob regulator, but in my research, I've been told this wouldn't be necessary, unless someone else thinks otherwise.
Hopefully plenty for an enthusiast to get their teeth round, let me know if I've missed or butchered anything.
