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Advanced Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Changing a keg

Syllabus Path

Changing a keg requires the correct coupler, chilled keg readiness, gas and beer-line checks, and safe disengagement of the old keg. Treat a keg change as a safety, temperature, pressure, and product-continuity checkpoint.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. H. Serving draft beer
  3. 4. Changing a keg

Exam Focus

  • Explain changing a keg as a service topic within Serving draft beer.
  • Shut off or isolate gas as required, disengage the coupler, inspect seals and the new keg, reconnect correctly, and manage the FOB before service resumes.
  • Change a keg without introducing contamination, wasting beer, damaging equipment, or sending gas and foam through the line.

Core knowledge

  • Changing a keg requires the correct coupler, chilled keg readiness, gas and beer-line checks, and safe disengagement of the old keg.
  • D/G/S/U couplers disengage differently from A/M couplers, so the server must know the coupler type.
  • FOBs must be reset where used and leaks or pressure faults should be checked before service resumes.

Study application

Treat a keg change as a safety, temperature, pressure, and product-continuity checkpoint.

Key Terms

FOBs must be reset where used and leaks or pressure faults
FOBs must be reset where used and leaks or pressure faults should be checked before service resumes.

References

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