Pacific Beer Equipment
3 min readJan 6, 2021

How to Reduce beer waste with a keg fob

You may be thinking about the money that goes in vain when you waste your beer due to poor equipment. Well, yes that is true that you have been wasting money and it is more than what you think.

You can make use of good beer equipment and get rid of this problem forever. Let us look how a keg fob works and how it helps to save the beer from getting wasted.

How to reduce beer waste with a keg fob

Working of a keg fob-

The beer flow operates the keg. The beer flowing from the keg force the float inside of the FOB into the up position, allowing the flow to the faucet. When the keg is empty, the float drops down stopping the beer flow from the keg. You can tap a new keg and reset your FOB. Once the vent is pushed, the pushing allows it to release the gas/foam form the chamber. This allows the beer to flow from the keg into the chamber, by lifting the float of the beer and allowing it to flow to the faucet.

This was all about how a FOB work. This equipment work until one take the proper care of it. Every piece of equipment requires maintenance and so does this. Let us look at the maintenance of FOBs.

Maintenance of FOB-

First, you need to know that a beer fob is designed in such a way that it avoids the beer line from filling with the air. After using this equipment one can say goodbye to the pitchers of wasted beer, i.e. in simple words, you will get rid of getting your beer wasted. This equipment functions in a different way and thus would demand different maintenance. This should be cleaned regularly. These are equipped with a float-lifting device. This device lifts the float of the beer outlet hole, allowing the flow of cleaning fluids to enter and exit the FOB detector and go to the faucet. You should always take care that under no circumstances the FOBs are bypassed during the process of cleaning. If you fail to do so or forget to clean FOB on daily basis, this will result in serving the contaminated beer to the customers.

This equipment requires maintenance daily so that it keeps working the same way and has a longer life. It is an important device and is a primary device to pour beer. It will make sure that not even a single droplet of beer is wasted. You can get this equipment from Pacific Beer Equipment.

Furthermore, if you get this equipment you should also know the ways to troubleshoot the problems that might occur with it. Any technical issues with it might cost you your customers. So, you must know the ways to cope up with the problems.

  1. Look for the gas leakage- It may happen when the keg goes empty and can create a mess. To avoid this issue you must make sure that the knob is locked. This is all you should take care of while using this equipment.
  2. For more information, or any query you can call us at the (toll-free) number- 1.888.225.2256 or apply online at info@beerequipment.com
Pacific Beer Equipment
Pacific Beer Equipment

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Pacific Beer Equipment renowned high-tech Draught Foam Control device (Beer FOBs), the DFC 9500, stops beer flow immediately after a keg empties.