Welcome to Cleaning Beer Components blogs! Keep your draft beer fresh and flavorful by learning proper cleaning and maintenance techniques for beer lines, taps, and dispensing equipment. Follow our expert tips to ensure quality beer service in any foodservice or beverage operation.
Keeping your Perlick 600s faucet well-maintained is essential for a smooth, reliable pour and the longevity of your beer system. This guide provides detailed cleaning instructions and part replacement tips to help prevent buildup, reduce service calls, and ensure your faucet operates at peak performance for years to come.
Including what temperature beer should be at when it reaches the faucet and how long tapped beer will last before going flat.
Extend the life of your jockey box and improve its performance with these helpful tips from Rapids, including cleaning suggestions and replacement parts.
If you are experiencing leaks from your keg coupler, or it's difficult to engage or disengage the the tavern head from the keg, the problem may be a bent keg lug (keg ear). If the keg ear tabs are bent, the connection between the keg and tap leaks. Even if the keg does not leak, the bent lug causes the coupler to stick making it difficult to remove and a hassle when it comes to line cleaning time.
Beer lines must be periodically cleaned to remove impurities and deposits that can cause beer to be flat or taste “off”. Recommended is every two weeks using a caustic solution which is high pH to take care of bacterial growth and additionally every 3 months an acid cleaning or low pH which takes care of beer stone.
