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Building a Home Draft System

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Building a Home Draft System

Learn how to build, maintain, and troubleshoot your home draft system.

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In this course, you'll learn how to build, maintain, and troubleshoot your home draft system. Whether you are building your beer dispensing setup from scratch or have purchased a ready-to-go kegerator, this course will show you, quite literally, the nuts and bolts of draft system maintenance.

Course contents

11 chapters, 43 lessons, 40m of video

Chapter 2

Draft Systems 101

  • Draft System Basics
  • Gas & Liquid
  • Refrigeration
  • Draft Systems 1012:23

Chapter 3

Gas Components

  • Gas Side
  • Fundamental Physical Principles
  • The Implications
  • Components
  • Gas-Liquid Interface
  • Gas Side Components Video5:16

Chapter 4

Liquid Components

  • Purpose
  • Pieces
  • Faucet
  • Faucet Material
  • Rear & Forward Sealing
  • Liquid4:22

Chapter 5

Refrigeration Options

  • Refrigeration
  • Dimensions

Chapter 6

Building a keezer

  • Building a Keezer
  • Building I5:12
  • Building II4:28
  • Building III9:19

Chapter 7

CO2 Dispensing

  • Carbon Dioxide Dispensing
  • Regulator2:58
  • Gas Line3:17
  • Keg Hookup1:48

Chapter 8

Draft Line Balancing

  • Draft Line Balance
  • Steps of Accomplishment
  • Gauge Pressure Equation
  • Resistance
  • Opposing Pressure
  • Resistance of the Lines
  • Psi

Chapter 9

Nitro Dispensing

  • NItrogen Dispensing
  • Pressure
  • Rebalancing

Chapter 10

Troubleshooting

  • Foamy Pours
  • Thermal Woes
  • Leaking

Chapter 11

Summary

  • Summary
  • Thank You!

What students say

5.0 from 3 reviews
  • great course. building a keezer seemed overwhelming until i took this course. the descriptions of the components were enhanced by watching the demonstrations of each step. i am excited to build my own draft system now and actually start kegging my beer.
    David Kocs
  • This course demystified building a keezer in simple steps. I am no longer afraid to tackle this project.
    Scott Lipoff
  • such a good start up course, got a lot of tips and helpful. just about to start my home draft system. thank you
    Fajard Ofsae