Draught Operations > Serving Draught Beer

Topic in this section include:

Glassware Cleaning

Testing for “Beer-Clean” Glass

Glassware Temperature

Pouring Draught Beer

Properly designed and appropriately operated, your draught system pours perfect draught beer from its faucets.  But the consumer’s experience can still be ruined by improper pouring, glass residue and unsanitary practices.  In this chapter, we review the serving practices required to deliver high quality draught beer.

To achieve the qualities the brewer intended, beer must be served following specific conditions and techniques.  Let’s review some of the critical conditions necessary for proper draught dispense.

• Beer stored between 34° - 38ºF 
• Beer served between 38° - 44ºF
• To accomplish this, the glycol cooling the beer lines in a long-draw system should be set to 27º - 32ºF.
• Balanced draught settings (pressure = resistance)
• Normal flow rate of 2 ounces per second 

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