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On Monday, August 10th, the Rapids Wholesale office and warehouse in Marion, IA was affected by a derecho.

Schools are facing an unprecedented challenge as they prepare for students to return this fall - how to keep their students during a COVID-19 pandemic. A major obstacle for many schools concerns how to serve food to students while maintaining social distancing and other safety protocols. One possible solution? Serve breakfast and lunch in the classroom!

Keep your bar clean and dry by installing a drip tray underneath your faucets.

Beer trunkline, sometimes called a python, is the beer conduit in your draft beer dispensing system. It moves your beer from the keg to the faucet, bringing glycol along for the ride to ensure your beer stays cold.

The simplified explanation of a regulator would describe it as a beer dispensing system component that is used to regulate the amount of gas that passes through your keg and pushes your beer to the faucet.

However, this description doesn't account for all the different kinds of regulators – you see, one size doesn’t fit all. There are primary regulators – further divided into CO2, nitrogen, single, dual, etc. – and secondary regulators.

Each type of regulator plays a unique role in a beer dispensing system, so to help you decide what kind of regulator you’ll need, we've provided more information on each.

If there’s one beer component you can really say brings your whole dispensing system together, it’s the keg coupler. It connects the air line from your CO2 or Nitrogen tank and the beer line to your keg. It’s also what allows the compressed air into your keg, resulting in your beer being pushed all the way to the faucet.

Choose a beverage system cleaner that is not only non-caustic, non-corrosive, and non-hazardous, but will also reduce your cleaning time by up to 50%!

Choosing the correct beer faucet for your beverage dispensing system is crucial - as the last component your beer touches before it reaches the glass, faucets can make or break the perfect pour.

When it comes to choosing an ice machine, the amount of options can be overwhelming. To help make the process a little simpler for you, we've broken down some of the major types of Scotsman ice machines, as well as the types of ice that are available.

Rapids and their employees want to give back to our customers and help support them in their time of need. Thus, the program #GenerousHelping was born.