Draft Beer Line Cleaning and Draft System Service in Forest Park
Madison Street was already a busy commercial strip when Forest Park incorporated in 1907, and the dry towns next door helped make it one: Oak Park and River Forest had adopted temperance, while Forest Park had saloons. The local historical society calls Forest Park the "rebellious" one of the three communities. Today the blocks of Madison between Harlem and Des Plaines avenues are lined with pubs, bars and restaurants.
The village lies about nine miles west of the Loop and reaches from Harlem Avenue to the Des Plaines River, with Oak Park across Harlem to the east, River Forest to the north, Maywood to the west, North Riverside to the south and Berwyn to the southeast. Large cemeteries, most of them founded in the 1870s, take up much of its land. The CTA Blue Line ends in Forest Park, and the Green Line's western terminal sits at Harlem Avenue on the Oak Park border.
Draft work in Forest Park centers on Madison Street's pubs and restaurants and reaches the bars and grills in the rest of the village. It covers scheduled line cleaning, keeping gas pressure matched to each beer, fixing foam and leaks, servicing chillers and adding taps.
Forest Park is part of our suburban Cook County service area. See the Cook County page.
Communities around Forest Park
Services in Forest Park
The full range of commercial draft work, from scheduled line cleaning to new installations.
- Beer line cleaningScheduled cleaning of lines, faucets and couplers.
- Draft system designLayout, cooler placement and line routing for new and remodeled spaces.
- Draft system installationNew systems, expansions and rebuilds, balanced to pour right.
- Draft system repair and serviceTroubleshooting foam, flat beer, leaks and worn parts.
- Glycol chiller serviceGlycol power pack checks, cleaning and top-offs.
- CO2 and beverage gasRegulators, blenders, gas lines, leak checks and bulk CO2.
Common questions
We rotate beers often, including sours and fruited beers. Does that affect the lines?
It can. Strongly flavored beers can leave flavors behind in vinyl lines that carry over into the next beer, so some bars keep certain lines for those styles only. Frequent keg changes also mean checking that each new beer gets the right gas pressure for its line. Regular cleaning helps keep carryover down.
How can we tell our lines are overdue for cleaning?
Common signs include beer that tastes sour, buttery or stale, pours that turn foamy with no change in the keg or gas, hazy beer that should be clear, and fruit flies around the faucets or drip trays. Any of them is a reason to get in touch. Beer line cleaning.
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Tell us about your Forest Park location and what your draft system needs.