Hello everyone. We're putting our Oktober crowler machine to work overtime theses days since the tap room is closed due to the virus. We are receiving more than one call about the beer being quite flat by the next day. We don't have any co2 issues with the beer at the tap head. Here is our process. Please let me know if you see anything we are doing wrong or could improve upon. The whole following process usually takes less than one minute to complete.
1. Crowler and lid sanitized (usually in the same type of Sani mixture we use in the 3rd sink of our glass cleaning process - Steramine)
2. Crowler is rinsed on our glass washer next to the tap head.
3. Crowler is purged with co2 at a very low psi so as not to create a vortex and reintroduce oxygen
4. Crowler is filled from the tap head. We do need to tilt the crowler to about 45 degrees to fill, otherwise it gets quite a head and takes 3 or 4 taps to fill
5. Crowler is insured to have beer all the way to the lip, little or no foam remains.
6. Lid is floated on top of beer in crowler
7. Crowler with floating lid is placed on can holder in the Oktober Model 7, splash guard is moved up
8. This action causes the crowler and lid to seat up onto the upper die and overflow the extra beer in the crowler down into the spill tray while pushing the lid down into the can in proper sealing position.
9. The seamer is turned on, the initial manual seam is created (left handle) followed immediately by the secondary seam (right handle)
10. Crowler and lid is properly seamed with no leakage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
1. Crowler and lid sanitized (usually in the same type of Sani mixture we use in the 3rd sink of our glass cleaning process - Steramine)
2. Crowler is rinsed on our glass washer next to the tap head.
3. Crowler is purged with co2 at a very low psi so as not to create a vortex and reintroduce oxygen
4. Crowler is filled from the tap head. We do need to tilt the crowler to about 45 degrees to fill, otherwise it gets quite a head and takes 3 or 4 taps to fill
5. Crowler is insured to have beer all the way to the lip, little or no foam remains.
6. Lid is floated on top of beer in crowler
7. Crowler with floating lid is placed on can holder in the Oktober Model 7, splash guard is moved up
8. This action causes the crowler and lid to seat up onto the upper die and overflow the extra beer in the crowler down into the spill tray while pushing the lid down into the can in proper sealing position.
9. The seamer is turned on, the initial manual seam is created (left handle) followed immediately by the secondary seam (right handle)
10. Crowler and lid is properly seamed with no leakage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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