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Finding Balance Through Kegging

A balanced draft system is crucial to pouring foam-free beer.

Dave Carpenter Mar 17, 2015 - 8 min read

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Everyone told you how easy kegging is, how much time you’ll save, and how rewarding it is to pour a glass of beer at your own home bar. You even built your own kegerator, complete with stainless faucets and a shiny draft tower, the whole nine yards.

So you invite your friends over to break it in, and with great fanfare and excitement, you draw your first pint of . . . foam.

No big deal, the first pint is always a little sudsy. So you pull a second. And then a third. Now you’re starting to worry. As pint after pint of foamy but precious homebrew goes down the drain, you wonder what went wrong.

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