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Certified Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Draft System Resistance Controls Beer Movement

Syllabus Path

Beer loses pressure as it travels through line, lift, and hardware resistance.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. D. Draft principles
  3. 2. Draft system resistance controls beer movement

Exam Focus

  • Identify friction, elevation change, and variable restriction as resistance sources.
  • Connect resistance to movement from keg to faucet.
  • Know restriction is part of balancing draft flow.

What to know

Beer loses pressure as it travels through line, lift, and hardware resistance.

Syllabus detail

  • Beer encounters resistance from draft-line friction, elevation change, and variable-resistance faucet devices when present.

Study task

Be ready to explain draft system resistance controls beer movement in the context of draft principles and apply it to a realistic Certified Cicerone® service, tasting, brewing, style, or pairing scenario.

Key Terms

Draft system resistance
Identify friction, elevation change, and variable restriction as resistance sources.

References

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