Hello I have had my kegerator for over a year and have had pretty good luck with hooking up the keg, the CO2 levels, and pretty much everything. Now I have a problem and it is making me crazy. Each beer that is coming out of the keg is foam. I just got a new keg on saturday. Everything was fine on sunday I had about 8 out of the keg that day. Everything went haywire last night. I pulled the tap for a beer and it popped and foam came rushing out and since then pretty much each beer I pour is straight foam with a smidgen of beer at the bottom. I checked the pressure and it was up to 13. I set it at 8 on Saturday. I unhooked the tap and started the process of tapping all over again. I know now that I made a mistake. I moved the lines away from the cold plate to make sure they aren't frozen I even backed the temperature knob to 4 when it has been set at 6 for the whole time I have had the kegerator. since retapping the keg I have turned off the regulator and bled the SCO2 from the line and that seemed to work a bit better but still not where it needs to be. I checked this morning and the gauge is set at 10 and that's where I left it last night. So I poured two beers this morning and I am still getting about 2 inches of foam at the top. Can anyone help me? I have a kegco kegerator.
Have you cleaned the beer lines and faucet lately? There could be some gunk in there causing the beer to agitate as it passes through.
This may be obvious, but there should be a release valve on the Co2 regulator and on the coupler that should release any built up pressure and help get your Co2 levels where you want them. From what I've heard Kegco has a pretty good customer support line too, so that may be worth a try.
You said it was fine at first then something “popped” and foam came rushing out and then the pressure was higher than you originally set it. Could something have broken in your regulator? Do you have a 2nd keg or regulator to test with? If its getting better though, it could have just been over carbonated and you could unhook the C02 tank and bleed the pressure off, wait a while and repeat.
So we can really help you, we need you to give us some information. What beer is it? CO2 volumes if you have that info What psi is your regulator set to? How long is your beer line? What is the temperature of the beer on the second pour?
Can you measure the temperature inside the kegerator besides the control knob? Cause those things are worthless.
Well it could be a bad regulator, but generally when they do the pressure climbs higher than 13, assuming that 13 is where is actually is. Honestly at 13 psi I wouldn't expect foaming issues from being overly pressurized unless you had under 5ft of beerline. If the psi is climbing on its own it is from a bad seat capsule ( I had no idea that was what it is called). It essentially is a small threaded brass body with a pin that seals against a hard plastic disc. As the screw presses on the needle it opens up that oriface to allow gas into the chamber that passes through the regulator. As the disc wears out it becomes inprinted and stops holding a good seal, thus allowing more gas to flow through. You might be able to buy a repair kit. They are cheap and work well. http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/regulators-parts-pid-8000-15.html I would check to see if the psi climbs again on its own before id assume a bad regulator.
