Draft Beer Line Cleaning and Draft System Service in Skokie
Skokie sits directly north of Chicago, between Evanston on the east and Niles and Morton Grove on the west, with Wilmette and Glenview along its northern edge. To the south it meets Lincolnwood and short stretches of Chicago's West Ridge and Forest Glen neighborhoods. The CTA Yellow Line, still known to many riders as the Skokie Swift, runs from the Howard station in Chicago to stops at Oakton Street and Dempster Street.
Downtown Skokie is centered on Oakton Street and Lincoln Avenue, near the Village Green, and the Main Street corridor between Crawford and Karlov avenues has its own run of shops and restaurants. The Old Orchard shopping district sits farther north, at Skokie Boulevard and Old Orchard Road. Until 1940 the village was called Niles Center, and the local heritage museum describes it in those years as a rural community of greenhouses, farms and taverns.
Draft systems in Skokie come in every size, from a few taps at a family restaurant to bigger setups in sports bars and hotel bars. Our work here includes line cleaning on a fixed schedule, figuring out why a tap has started pouring foam or flat beer, replacing worn faucets and couplers, looking after glycol chillers and gas equipment, and fitting in new taps or whole systems when a business is ready to pour more.
Skokie is part of our suburban Cook County service area. See the Cook County page.
Communities around Skokie
Services in Skokie
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
Our kegs share a walk-in with the kitchen's food. Is that a problem?
It can work, as long as the cooler holds a steady, cold temperature. Constant door traffic during a dinner rush, or a load of warm deliveries, can push the temperature up enough that beer starts foaming at the tap. Checking the temperature of the beer itself during a busy stretch shows whether the cooler is keeping up.
Beer is a small part of our sales. Do slow-moving taps still need regular cleaning?
Yes. Yeast, proteins and minerals keep collecting inside a line whether it pours constantly or only now and then, and beer that sits for long stretches picks up off-flavors from whatever has built up. Illinois sets the cleaning interval by the calendar, not by how much you pour. The Illinois cleaning rule.
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