Home taps

Hi all. Long time lurker in a spot of bother! I'm a newbie to the home bar so please go easy on my lack of knowledge lol.

I bought a Lindr 40k and a couple of kegs for a family wedding which is this weekend. I was going to test it last night but the beer has stopped dispensing.

A bit of background.....with the Lindr devices I believed that the inbuilt air compressor would suffice and no gas was needed - such was the info on the website. A few pints pulled but quickly stopped.

I have since bought 50/50 gas and left it on at 30psi for an hour but there is still no beer in the lines.

Can you please give me some advice and guidance to get this running? Are the kegs "dead" or should they still be able to dispense with the gas now in place? I don't mind buying a new keg or 2 but the main thing is to get it running properly.

I can't post images yet as a new poster unfortunately.

Confused!

ferm wrote: »

Hi all. Long time lurker in a spot of bother! I'm a newbie to the home bar so please go easy on my lack of knowledge lol.

I bought a Lindr 40k and a couple of kegs for a family wedding which is this weekend. I was going to test it last night but the beer has stopped dispensing.

A bit of background.....with the Lindr devices I believed that the inbuilt air compressor would suffice and no gas was needed - such was the info on the website. A few pints pulled but quickly stopped.

I have since bought 50/50 gas and left it on at 30psi for an hour but there is still no beer in the lines.

Can you please give me some advice and guidance to get this running? Are the kegs "dead" or should they still be able to dispense with the gas now in place? I don't mind buying a new keg or 2 but the main thing is to get it running properly.

I can't post images yet as a new poster unfortunately.

Confused!

What kegs did you get?

jt69er wrote: »

What kegs did you get?

Got Carlsberg and Coors light. Had a bar owner look at it tonight but he was none the wiser. Perhaps an issue with the couplers? Is there some sort of switch off valve inside them?

jt69er wrote: »

Those kegs wont work with the system you have. That system, as was previously stated, only works with Key Kegs where the product is forced from the kegs by the compressed air. Some of the Craft Breweries use Key Kegs, none of the regular Breweries do. There may be a way of by-passing the compressor and using regular gas but I'd need to see the system.

There is an inlet at the back of the unit to run the line by-passing the air compressor, I was contemplating one of these before I decided on the kegerator. In fact they actually do a version that has no air compressor at all.

Anyone know where I could get Guinness tap, coupler / whatever it's called, beer lines and gas regulator for cheap? Looking to turn an old fridge into a kegerator

I think it would be better to run both on the Nitro mix, i have never done it so cant say for sure, but have heard people do it that that, the Larger might not be a bubbly.

The two things that can effect head size are gas and temperature, are you sure both are correct?

Do you currently have a setup, if so post a picture of your regulator, most have a bottle fill level gauge.

Secondly the pressure depends on the gas you are using 75/25 or 70/30, pressure will be between 29 and 38 psi

Also do you have a long line from the tap to the keg?

Look up Steve Gilsenan (Guinness Global Head of Quality) on intagram. He mentioned this on his story last night.

If using dishwasher it was 3 runs I think;

• Run with just hot water
• Next run a cycle with some Renovate
• Final run a rinse

Or if washing by hand, just use very hot water and normal table salt. Insure when leaving glasses to dry, air can get at them. A few glass stacking mats also essential, very cheap online.

The key is to not use the glasses for anything else in the house or it will leave a coating on the inside of the glass. There is a reason why the "good" pubs would use the old Fooster or Becks glasses for the pint of Lucozade, milk, mi-wadi etc and not give it to you in a Guinness glass. Many pubs would only have hot water in their glass washers and just follow good glass care etiquette.

Depends if you use a regulator and gas or the compressor

If you use a regulator and gas, same as a cooler, if you use the compressor, I believe a weekend, but I could be wrong.

Kegs will last the longest in a kegerator.

Ye it's definitely a downside. I don't think it takes as long as 24 hours but probably best to use it as a guide. I've always had my keg in for a few days before tapping it.

If you want to have a spare fridge, you'll need a large fridge for a 50l keg. An under counter fridge won't be big enough.

Kegs definitely last longer in the fridge, which is an upside.

Depending on when you intend to use it really, once it's used within 4 to 6 weeks and stored correctly shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks thats the info I was looking for.

j

Quick question, I currently have a 2 product maxi 310 cooler. Both coils are long ones going from the diagram and would be more suited to cooling beer and I am looking to add a shorter coil to it of around 2metres for Guinness as there is already holes made in the cooler unit for 4 in 4 out pipes.

Can I just add 2 metres of 3/8" beer line pipe into the resorvoir on the inside to do this and have them come out of the holes at the front and join up?

Thanks for the reply, I will try just using the one coil with Guinness and see how well that cools I've never actually used this cooler yet so the results might not be that bad. In future I was hoping to double cool the beer and installing another coil/pipe for guinness. Instead of 2metres which you think might be too short I will probably try 4 metres as that seems to be the length of shorter coils on a 4 product maxi cooler. Thanks again.