Why Do We Need A Better Beer Certification Program?

If you have visited more than let's say five restaurants or bars in your life, you know that not all establishments are able to attain the same level of quality. The BetterBeer.com® certification program allows you to clearly see who is able to attain that level of quality.

A certified account has a fridge that looks something like this...

The establishments certified in our program DO NOT look like this.

Would you eat in an establishment that has a RED rating from the Toronto Board of Health’s DineSafe Program? Then why drink beer that has gone through equipment like this before being poured into your glass? BetterBeer.com® makes sure you get what you pay for, a great quality pint of beer, not beer that has gone through this...

This is called a Foam On Beer Detector (FOB) which shuts off the flow of beer when the keg empties. When the keg is full and the beer is flowing from the taps, the FOB is full of beer. This FOB was pulled from an establishment in the GTA. You can see the build-up of growth on the inside (light brown colour). This FOB should be transparent.

This is a picture of the inside of a walk-in draught fridge in the GTA. You can see the growth build up on the black trunk line as well as the tangled, disarray of the lines. As if this isn't bad enough, what you cannot see is the growth that covers most of the inside of the fridge and the dirt floor.

This is a coupler which attaches the lines to the keg. As you can see from the "good" pictures above, it should be completely clean and mould free. The bacteria (black/brown) and mould (fuzzy white/green) build up falls off of the coupler at each keg change and into the valve where the beer comes out. This growth eventually finds its way into the lines and into your glass of beer.