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Advanced Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Changing a keg

Syllabus Path

Advanced candidates should study changing a keg as part of serving draft beer, connecting the syllabus heading to beer flavor, dispense quality, safety, and guest experience.

  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.
  • Use specific evidence such as temperature, pressure, package condition, sanitation, equipment state, and observed service symptoms.
  • Apply the topic to beer flavor, dispense quality, safety, and guest experience rather than repeating the heading alone.

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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