Hey all, My roommate recently purchased a Nostalgia Kegerator, and we have everything setup correctly and we have setup and torn apart everything multiple times trying to troubleshoot a slow pour issue. The lines are not kinked or frozen, the CO2 regulator seems fine and is reporting 10-12psi of pressure. The CO2 is valve is open and the CO2 seems to be making it to the keg. We're wondering if we got a bad keg or if the keg coupler itself is bad? There seems to be beer leaking out of the top of the keg according to my roommate. Suggestions/advice? Thanks - Alan
welcome to BA. could be your line is too long. try 8' of 3/16" beverage line. might be a bad gauge on your regulator and your psi is too low. possibly a bad coupler but not likely. suggestions #1- you have a Nostalgia so you have problems... read up some of the recent posts in this forum. suggestion #2- if you bought a dish washer that didn't wash dishes you would return it, and then that dishwasher would disappear from the market. a kegerator only does one thing, so go figure. suggestion #3. live with it. what's the rush at home? drop the glass and pour a rope of beer square against the bottom. that will liven it up a lot. advice- return the Nostalgia for something better. you are going to spend some money to fix this one anyway. may as well buy a decent one. new regulator. tower fan. better faucet. real drip tray. what's left? Cheers.
The stock lines aren't that long. And by slow pour I mean it's a trickle. I don't want to stand by my kegerator for 5 min to fill a single glass. I understand what you're saying about the Nostalgia brand, but this is the newer model with the dual gauge regulator. Both gauges show good levels, and most of the complaints I read have to do with an earlier model.
Nostalgia is just not a quality brand, new or old. "standard" kegerators cost 8 or 9 hundred. or $1,500. yours is what, $500? not going to work right. can't be done. you shouldn't buy a $8 toaster either. corners are cut. we do need line length fairly accurate as this is likely the problem. "not that long" is not too helpful. 4'? 5'? thanks. true the old Nostalgia regulators were a nightmare. but even quality regulators fail, sometimes right out of the box. they are a precision device, capable of reducing 800 psi to a single psi of pressure. if it helps to know where I am coming from, the last newbie with a Nostalgia, maybe 4 days ago, his problem was too much foam, usually too fast. Cheers.
Aha! Figured it out, the tap is bad. The coupler and regulator are good. Looks like if I pull to the right on the tap the flow improves dramatically. Thanks for your help, we'll be ordering a replacement shortly! Cheers! Alan
Billandsuz, thanks for your help, The lines are ~4' . Truth be told, the roommate got it off sellout.woot.com for $339 with $5 shipping. For the low cost we figured we may need to replace parts and it was a risk we'd be willing to take. If this thing lasts us 4-5 kegs we'll have broken even on the cost saved per beer and the cost of the kegerator.
well you cant beat that price. no joke. even if it is just a bottle fridge. kind of ridiculous to have a lousy faucet to be honest. a "tap" is a coupler. you tap a keg with a coupler. you are likely referring to the faucet. faucet and tap are used interchangeably by many people but impress your friends like you know something. refer to the faucet and the coupler. look for some Perlick "Perl" faucets. that's the cats ass and you will appreciate the feel of quality. cheap faucets are the worst imo. Cheers.
