Inn Doctor

If all your keg beers and lagers are serving warm you have a major problem.

If you have a large pub or hotel then you will probably have one or two remote coolers. These will often be located somewhere near your cellar. They are, a large box like machine with lots of pipes coming from the top.

Once you have located the machine make sure it is switched on. This is the only thing you can check. Even if the machine is running it may still be faulty.

Ring your local Tech Services right away

This is a problem you can fix yourself, every couple of weeks or so you should drain water from the cooler this can be done by removing the  (usually it is red) cap from the overflow, which can be found under the pipe connections on the front of the cooler.

What has now happened is the water level has reached the point where it is running over the top of the tank.

If you take the cap off however and no water comes out. This means that ice has formed on the other side of the overflow, to remedy this; the cooler should be switched of whilst in use, until water does flow.

Then the cooler can then again be switched back on. Coolers should be drained or topped up regularly otherwise an ice bank will not form properly.

Looking at the keg beer remote cooler, firstly see if you can see where the water is coming from. If it is leaking generally from the bottom of the machine, you need to send for your local technician.

If however you see the water is running out of a tube, which is situated, on one of the sides of the machine near the top, then this is perfectly normal. This water is meant to escape from the machine as overflow, due to the continual cycling of the ice within the unit.

Also some small amounts of water on or around the top of the remote can be expected, and is the result of condensation on the python. If in doubt it is always best to send for your local technician.

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