Beer 101

The Difference Between A Jockey Box With A Cold Plate And A Jockey Box With A Coil

For maximized quality and taste, it is imperative to serve your beer, wine, and cold brew coffee cold. This can be a challenge when you are trying to serve your beer or other beverages at a party, festival, or catered event away from your place of business. The solution: a party cooler (otherwise known as a jockey box).

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Fix The Bent Lug Tab On Your Sankey Keg With A Specialized Lug Straightener Tool - The Perlick Single Valve Keg Doctor

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.

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Why You Must Have a FOB (Foam on Beer Detector) on your Long Draw Beer System & How to Maintain Your FOB

A FOB detector is designed to keep your lines filled with beer. The FOB detects an empty keg and shuts down the beer flow. What this does is eliminate the foam you get from an empty keg. It also eliminates the need to refill lines with beer and purge air from the system. Without a FOB installed on your beer line, when your keg goes empty, your tap starts spitting and spraying foam.

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Outdoor Beer Dispensing Made Simple with a Cold Plate Jockey Box

Summer events can be the perfect chance to expand your customer base by showcasing your superior line of beer products. One of the best ways to do that is by using our 48 Qt. Cold Plate Beer Cooler - 2 Tap Jockey Box. This portable beer dispenser chills your beer as it moves it to the faucets, which means that your customers are getting a crisp, refreshing beverage each time you pour. Produced by American Beverage, the 2 faucet jockey box is specifically created to cool two beer products at once, allowing you to feature not only a new, innovative product, but also supply an old favorite to keep your customers, old and new alike, hooked. It uses a cast-aluminum cold plate, in conjunction with foamed insulation and around 25-30 lbs. of CO2 pressure, to draw your beer from the keg and bring it to the ideal drinking temperature as it travels to the taps. And, not only can you take this cold plate jockey box just about anywhere, it is also practically indestructible and requires less ice than a coil cooler to function properly.

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What is a Forward Sealing Faucet? What Are Its Benefits?

Perlick's forward sealing beer and wine faucets are designed with a purpose, making them unique in both appearance and function. An innovative ball and floating front seal design prevents beer from being exposed to air, which provides two important benefits: 1) The handle level doesn't stick, with the added benefit of fewer internal parts, which means better reliability and fewer service calls. 2) There is no buildup of mold and bacteria in the faucet body, making forward sealing faucets the most sanitary of draft beer faucets.

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