Welcome to Beer 101, Rapids Wholesale’s beer knowledge repository! Since 1936, we’ve mastered the essentials of beer and dispensing. Explore beer styles, brewing fundamentals, and serving tips to enhance your foodservice or beverage operation.
Using a beer dispenser doesn't have to mean you are limited to just a few beer options. In just a few steps, you can easily turn your Volition beer dispenser into a mobile microbrew station! Just add casters and two 5-product T-Towers! Several widths are available for you to choose from: 59", 69", 95".
When trying to find the perfect jockey box for your event, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of options out there. These portable beer coolers vary on everything from number of taps, beer cooling type, and quality of materials.
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).
Brewing delicious grain beer relies on the pH level in your mash, as this directly impacts the flavor of your beer. pH is the measurement of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. It is measured on a scale from 0-14 with 7 being a neutral reading. A pH Reading below 7 would be considered “acidic”, and a pH reading above 7 would be “basic”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As beer has evolved and matured, so has the vessel we serve it in. Just like wine, the flavor of different beer types will be enhanced if served in the correct beer glass. Most important to serving the best quality and taste in beer is actually the cleanliness of the glass. Providing the ultimate beer taste experience for your customer combines both, clean glasses and glass shape.
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.
