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Hi, I have a faucet question? I have a 4 tap glycol system at home that works great, I switched out my regular faucets (stuck to much) for perlick 525ss' about 6 months ago and love them, never a sticking problem. I want to add a nitrogen system and stout faucet (not a cramer faucet) and was wondering if stout faucets are foward sealing or have sticking problems? which ones are better than others? Any info or experince would be appreciated, THANKS

Though I had never brewed one when I saw a genuine Guiness stout faucet in a bar store I bought it and used it for other types of beers. It is forward sealing (if by that you mean that the pressure on the beer pushes the valve into the seat). Years later when I started brewing stout I was (to my intense pleasure and disbelief) able to find the sparkler plate and flow straightener which I had set aside years ago. These faucets are hard to find now but if you want a stout faucet, they are hard to beat in terms of the classic look and performance.

Short of what Guiness makes the best faucets I know of are the Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. faucets sold under the brand name Wunderbar. They are forward sealing and just great faucets IMO. They have lager and "ale" designs which are, I believe, the same except that the latter have the sparkler plate and flow straightener which can, as with the Guiness faucet, be removed by unscrewing the nozzle in which case they would be (AFAIK) identical to the lager version. I don't have any of the ale configuration ones (because I don't do ale much and when I do dispense it through an engine) but I have four of the lager ones and just love them.

[EDIT: corrected name of manufacturer]

Thanks for the reply. Foward sealing is the location of the valve in the faucet. I will check out the faucets you mentioned as I have not heard of them. Thanks for your input. Cheers

Ken The Red wrote:Thanks for the reply. Foward sealing is the location of the valve in the faucet. I will check out the faucets you mentioned as I have not heard of them. Thanks for your input. Cheers

Perlick makes a creamer faucet too http://www.amazon.com/Perlick-CREAMER-F ... 716&sr=8-4