Picnic taps

Most couplers say they don’t work with flow control faucets. Chi Company has a specific Perlick flow control coupler.

Just adding some finishing touches to my keezer, noticed someone was looking for an idea to store picnic taps. Thought I’d share what I did. I used cup hooks and straightened the hook slightly, then drilled a hole in the tap handle to hang it.

Thank-you! Had the suction-cup type in my hand earlier today.

I’m headed to the garage… :smiley:

I try to store the downward so anything left in the tap drips out. They can grow so funk up under the cap over time.

  • 1 - while hanging them from the handle works for you, I’m clumsy at times and would likely knock open the valve when moving stuff around.

Shake it a couple  times! :wink:

IF you shake more than twice you’re having too much fun.

But seriously, whatever it is that grows in there is nasty.  It’s exactly as Stevie describes up above.  I change my picnic taps regularly to try to avoid this.

Also, although others have said there’s no issue with staling or carbonation loss I find that the beer in my lines goes flat.  I typically pour the first few ounces, drink that (or toss it), and then fill the glass.  I don’t pour pints all that often and have five kegs on tap right now, so it could simply be a time-based problem.

I haven’t notice any funk in the tap.  I do a thorough disassembly and cleaning between kegs and drain the tap between pours.

The taps unscrew and I have found that the taps can get loose causing leaks.

I have a setup that I pump PBW through the lines filling the keg and let I recirculate for a while. I put a silicone line on the open party tap so it gets a cleaning at the same time as the keg, no funk.