The
FlexHoseTap® is a CO2 pressure regulated beer tap that uses brewery approved CO2
gas. Made in the US with high quality stainless steel, brass and aluminum. The
top-of-the-line regulator is made in Japan, and has
an integrated puncture pin and seal for the included 74g CO2 cylinders. One CO2
cylinder will easily preserve and push all of the beer out of 1/6 and ¼ beer
barrels. This kit includes 2 CO2-Filled 74g Cylinders.
How it Works
The FlexHoseTap® comes assembled and ready to use. No tools needed.
Get your keg settled in its final place:
• Attach the FlexHoseTap® coupler into slot on keg and twist it into place.
• Make sure the FlexHoseTap® black dispensing handle is closed; its normal position.
• Lock the handle down on the coupler
• Turn the regulator to the off position
• Insert the CO2 cartridge, turning in firmly, but do not over tighten
• Get a glass
• Open the black faucet by pushing the handle with your thumb
• Now, with the faucet open, slowly turn the regulator knob until beer starts to flow, stop turning at that point.
•You can add some more pressure, but not too much, this will only waste gas and create foam.
•Saving the keg for the next few days is easy. Keep it cold and use the regulator, add about 10psi of pressure to the keg. Turn the regulator off and immediately remove the FlexHoseTap® from the keg. You can leave the CO2 cartridge in the regulator. The keg seals off when you remove the FlexHoseTap®.
Variations
The FlexHoseTap® is available in two different configurations depending on the keg style you are using. 99.9% of the time, go with the default.
1. The standard default is P/N 50580 with the most widely used in North America, the US Sankey base.
2. The next most popular is P/N 50580-EU which is used on some European kegs. Ask your beer retailer to be sure. Please call us for this version! Are there others? Yes, and all you must do is contact us and we will try to make it happen for you.
ICE ICE ICE
We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to keep the keg in a super cold environment. Ideally, between 36F to 40F. Seriously. Cold beer matters especially when you apply CO2 to the keg, otherwise, you will be an expert on foam. You have probably seen a YETI or similar hard shell cooler. It is thick with insulation for a reason, to keep heat out and cold in.
Putting a keg in garbage can and adding ice is fine if you are at a tailgate in Wisconsin and it is 40F outside. A pool party in Clearwater Florida in July means it is 88F outside and you are going to fight to keep that keg cold. Find shade, wrap the outside with blankets. You can thank us later.
Be Kind…Air
Kills Beer™
When you see
someone pumping air into a beer keg, rather than CO2, they are forcing the
degradation of the beer as the hand pumped air forces the carbonation out of
the beer…no wonder it goes flat so quickly!
The
FlexHoseTap® comes completely assembled and ready to use. Just pick up a keg of
beer and ice! Each unit comes with two
of the 74g CO2 Filled cylinders which are truly beverage grade and brewery
approved.
*California
Residents' Prop 65 Warning: This product
contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth
defects or other reproductive harm. Why is this applicable to this product? To
learn more please click here.
Back Story
In 1989 we were at a 2-day party in a rural area of Ohio. There were 20 of us at an old farmhouse with a huge empty barn. We brought a keg, roasted a pig, chased down and cooked a few chickens. But we had arrived late the first night and could not kick the keg.
So, the next morning, we wanted the party to continue and tried the keg. It was still on ice, but we had been using a hand operated air pump. At that time, we did not realize that pumping air into a keg causes it to lose CO2 carbonation. We literally pushed the CO2 out and the result was horrible flat beer.
That next week, back at Leland Gas Technologies in New Jersey, we immediately took that hand pump off the picnic tap and replaced it with one of our regulators and screwed in a 74g CO2 cylinder that we had in stock. The Leland CO2 PicnicTap® was born and is hand made in New Jersey to this day.
Since then, we have sold thousands of this device to consumers and breweries around the world. Breweries love the CO2 PicnicTap® because they are very fickle about the quality and consistency of their beer. They spend a lot of time and effort to ensure quality and our device took away the variability of not having the correct CO2 content in their beer, a vital ingredient and key to proper mouth feel.
We round up our friend group and go back to that farmhouse every year. But now, when we arrive, everyone puts on a huge smile when we break out the CO2 PicnicTap®. We quickly became the hero of that party and the memories we have built can never be forgotten.
This FlexHoseTap® was the grandchild of the famous Leland CO2 PicnicTap® which we quickly developed once we realized that the CO2 PicnicTap® could not fit in a refrigerator! We finalized the CO2 FlexHoseTap® in the spring of 2001 just as we moved into our current manufacturing facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey where our well-trained technicians build out these great tap products.
You too have a chance to obtain the highest quality restaurant grade portable draft beer equipment in the world and you can be the hero of the party.
