Glycol Tap System recommendations

[District BrewCo]

hi folks,

we are upgrading the tap system at our tasting room to glycol.. 12 taps - 50 ft from our walk in.

any recommendations on mfgr.. installed price & reliability greatly appreciated.

thanks

dbc

[TGTimm]

Micro Star, Foxx, and others all sell excellent systems. Our glycol-chilled system--90 ft. of 8 product trunk--is a Banner system. It works great, with about half the trunk in a hot attic above the kitchen, and the rest hanging overhead and exposed to full daylight. No problem keeping the beer at 40F on a 100+ day. Our tower system is from Micro Star, an 8-faucet Eurotower, which is also glycol chilled. Our glycol chiller is a 1 hp unit, which is marginal for this much load--fortunately, we serve at 40 degrees, but if you want to go cooler, buy a larger chiller.

The drain trays with glass rinser are great--a real customer-pleaser. We run our glass rinser water through a DIY heat exchanger (10 ft of 1/4" copper coiled in a 4" SS on the glycol line, so the water is at the same temp as the beer.

We installed the system ourselves--not too hard.