A Couple of Ways to Make Beer Usage Savings

One of the biggest questions that many pub landlords and bar owners have is how to make beer usage savings. All of us know that we lose beer when we clean the beer lines, and that it can’t be helped. Pouring two or three pints of perfectly good beer down the drain is against all logic, but it can’t be helped.

Or can it?

There is a system available that actually reduces the cycle of beer line cleaning and that will result in huge beer usage savings. Imagine if you only had to clean your beer lines once a month? Or even as infrequently as every seven weeks? Just think how much time that would save, and even more importantly how much beer you would save. There is actually a product that you can rent that will do exactly that.

Another way of making beer usage savings is to install FOB detectors. These are designed to keep your beer lines filled with beer, and nothing but beer – not foam. When you get to the bottom of a keg or cask your tap starts to spit foam. Depending on the length of your beer line, you can waste quite a lot of beer as you couple the new keg and pull the foam through it until you start to get beer again.

A FOB (Foam On Beer) detector works by shutting off an empty keg instantly rather than letting you draw foam. So your beer line stays full of beer. You simply connect a new keg and away you go again. Instead of throwing away a couple of pints of beer every time you attach a new keg, you have beer coming through the line all the time. Just imagine how much that will save you over the course of a year.

How does it work? The FOB detector has a float ball that sits on top of the froth in the detector chamber. As the keg starts to empty, the ball drops, and when the keg empties the ball immediately cuts off the FOB outlet port which stops the flow into the beer line the same instant.