Hi, I’m new here, but I’m inexperienced with my Kegerator and having issues with foamy beer. It started when I replaced the CO2 on my kegerator. No matter the pressure- my beer comes out foamy. I have tried unhooking the lines and running warm water through to clean, but that didn’t work either. Does anyone have any advice on what to do?
Unhook the CO2, gas off the keg, turn your CO2 down to about 5, hook it back up, try again. If the the pours slowly and/or flat, increase the psi a couple pounds at a time.
Your system is out of balance. This happens all the time with new kegerators. Suggest you read these two links and apply the approach they detail. If still having trouble chime back in here. https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/foaming.193492/ https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/help-with-balancing-my-system.248243/
Mine isn’t new (worked great with last co2 tank). I can’t get my pressure to stop creeping up to almost 60psi. The adjustment screw is turned all the way as low as it will go. Further, when I turn the shutoff to the kegs on (I.e. to not have any co2 pumping to the kegs), the co2 gauge immediately sky rockets. Do I have a bad regulator?
Yes. If you set pressure to zero and have 60psi that's a bad reg or gauge...in this case it's your reg. Good news is that's a really easy fix and not even that expensive. To be sure, with the gas off the keg and pressure indicating 60psi depress the CO2 plunger: it should give you a very loud and forceful rush of carbon dioxide. Enough noise to wake up the dog. Caveat: if your keg has been on 60psi any length of time (hours) most likely the beer is over-carb'ed. You will need to do a series of venting of the headspace to get it under control. Some trial and error here, but if you overshoot (under-carb'ed) the new reg with the correct pressure will fix it in a day or two.
Update: bought a new regulator. And had to buy a new co2 tank since I guess the other one was leaking? Anyways, now, when I hook up the gas, gas floods out of the relief valve on the new regulator. Any ideas?
I would vent the keg to be sure that the keg doesn't have an insane amount of pressure that's trying to flow up the gas line to the regulator, causing the relief valve to go.
That worked. However, now beer is coming out not foamy out of the keg (I can see it in the tube) but is still extremely foamy during the pour? Feel like I’m going crazy.
Your beer is over carb'ed because you had it at 60psi, most likely the cause of the foam. To reduce carb level, take the gas off the keg and vent the headspace. Come back in an hour and vent again (gas still off). Then come back in an hour and vent again. If vents 2 & 3 sounded almost as loud as #1 you still have way too much CO2 in the beer...continue venting until the amount of gas released is noticeably less. Don't hook the gas back up until the carb level is under control. It doesn't hurt if you release too much, just hook the gas back up at normal pressure and it will correct in a day or two. Remember, nothing works fast when absorbing or releasing CO2.
Hello, I hope someone sees this on this old tread but I’ve tried everything stated in this discussion and unfortunately I continue to have a full glass of foam. A rundown of my setup is outdoor kegerator, brand new tap brand new lines and brand new faucet, I took an old kegerator and got it working again. I’ve looked at the PSI chart and balanced it to what type of beer for each kegs I’ve gotten. Unfortunately I’ve gone through 1.5 almost 2 kegs trying to balance it correctly. I’ve even tried cooling the faucet before serving and still no luck. What’s everyone’s take on the faucets that have a hard elbow at the receiving? At this point that’s the only thing that has been unchanged. Thank you.
What size/brand beer lines are you using and what is their length? Do you know the temp of your beer (not the kegerator setting but the actual beer temp)?
