Draught Equipment and Sustem Configurations > Temporary Draught Dispense > Jockey Boxes

Jockey boxes offer another way to improve on the picnic tap as a solution for portable dispense. Here, a normal coupler is attached to the keg and CO² is used to pressurize the system. Beer in route from keg to faucet passes through a cold plate or stainless steel tubing inside an ice chest in order to cool it to the proper dispense temperature. A cold-plate-equipped jockey box uses ice to cool beer flowing through the cold plate.  A jockey box equipped with stainless steel coils uses ice and water to chill beer flowing through the coil.

These systems are not appropriate for day-to-day use, as draught beer is perishable and room temperature storage accelerates that process. Partial kegs remaining from temporary service are not usable in other settings.

A Jockey Box setup (left) can incorporate either coiled tubing (center) or a cold plate (right).

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