Why Choose Us? What are your rates? Contact us for your personalized quote for all your cannabis transportation needs Why choose MHIC? We are a leader in safety, compliance & flexibility in the medical marijuana transportation industry in Missouri, providing unprecedented value to cannabis processors, manufacturers & growers. Do you transport ‘from and to’ all Missouri cities? Yes, we deliver medical marijuana goods from and to all cities across Missouri. Can you provide an overview of your transportation vehicles? Our transportation vehicles comprise spacious cargo vans equipped with state-of-the-art video recording hardware & software. Are there any prerequisites before placing a transport request? No, there are no prerequisites. Any and all cannabis vendors can place a transport request with MHIC. FOB’s WHAT ARE SOME PROS AND CONS OF FOB’S (FOAM ON BEER)? The FOB is a draft component placed in a cooler that detects when a keg of beer is emptied, and then goes to work to shut down the beer flow. This eliminates gas and spits of beer from pouring out of your taps. As you re-tap a full keg onto that same line it will also preserve your newly tapped beer from foaming before it pours as it should. In other words, with a FOB installed on your beer line, you will experience much less foaming when your keg hits empty, and when you tap the new keg, your tap will immediately pour beer. Very little foam waste, no serving down time for your customers, and none of the extra labor costs involved when an employee spends their time cleaning up the cooler where a blown empty keg has made a mess. FOB’s are also usually a misunderstood draft component in a bar. Generally newer employees and managers are asked to change the keg without knowing the steps to take in resetting a FOB. The staff must be trained on how they work. Another issue is maintenance. Since the FOB is full of beer, it will get dirty in the same way other equipment will. They turn sticky and are hard to reset, or worse, when the bleed valve (vent) gets dirty enough, it will stick in the open position, and you can bleed a whole keg through it and lose all that product. We highly recommend FOB’s to our customers who have either a Long Draw draft beer system, or a Through The Wall draft beer system. They are an inexpensive way to control shrinkage in your bar. Draught Beer Line Cleaning Standards The Brewers Association Draught Beer Quality Manual suggests the following summary cleaning recommendations: Perform draught line cleaning every two weeks (14 days), as follows: Push beer from lines with cold water. Clean lines with caustic solution at 2% or greater concentration for newer, well-maintained lines or 3% concentration for older or problematic lines. Maintain a solution temperature of 80º – 125ºF. Caustic solution should be circulated through the lines for 15 minutes at a velocity of 2 gallons per minute for electric pump cleaning or left to stand in the lines for no less than 20 minutes for static cleaning. Disassemble and hand clean faucets; hand clean couplers. After cleaning, flush lines with cold water until pH matches that of tap water and no visible debris is being carried from the lines. Quarterly (every three months): Disassemble and hand clean all FOB-stop devices (a.k.a. beer savers, foam detectors) Disassemble and hand clean all couplers. Perform acid cleaning of draught lines as follows*: Push beer or caustic cleaner from lines with cold water. Clean lines with an acid line cleaner mixed to manufacturer’s guidelines. Maintain a solution temperature of 80º – 125ºF. Circulate the acid solution through the lines for 15 minutes at a velocity of 2 gallons per minute for electric pump cleaning or let stand in the lines for no less than 20 minutes for static cleaning. After acid cleaning, flush lines with cold water until pH matches that of tap water and no visible debris is being carried from the lines. Disassemble and hand clean all FOB-stop devices (a.k.a. beer savers, foam detectors) Disassemble and hand clean all couplers. Perform acid cleaning of draught lines as follows*: Push beer or caustic cleaner from lines with cold water. Clean lines with an acid line cleaner mixed to manufacturer’s guidelines. Maintain a solution temperature of 80º – 125ºF. Circulate the acid solution through the lines for 15 minutes at a velocity of 2 gallons per minute for electric pump cleaning or let stand in the lines for no less than 20 minutes for static cleaning. After acid cleaning, flush lines with cold water until pH matches that of tap water and no visible debris is being carried from the lines. Draught Beer Freshness How long will draught beer remain fresh? All beers are at their best on the day the keg is filled at the brewery. As days go past the freshness reduces. In general, the fresher your keg draft beer is, the better it tastes. Keg beer will remain fresh if dispensing with CO2, while maintaining the proper temperature and pressure: Non-pasteurized draft beer about 45-60 days. Pasteurized draft beer about 90-120 days. Dispensing keg beer with a party pump (air): Any draft beer will remain fresh for no more than 8-12 hours. Air contains oxygen, and oxygen is an enemy of beer. For quality assurance, most breweries now print a freshness date on the cap or side of each keg. Depending on the brewery, this may either be a “born on” (filled) date or an “expiration” date, read the label carefully. While the shelf life for each of the brewers may differ, days in inventory before it reaches you are factored into the shelf life of the keg. For example Non-pasteurized beer has a shelf life of 45-60 days. Here is an example of a keg’s life: Days 0-10 (Transit / Satellite Warehousing) Days 10-20 (Distributor Warehouse / Retail Delivery) Days 20-60 (At Retail / Home) So the average keg has 25-40 days of shelf life at retail or in a home. Breweries recommend not drinking draft beer past the freshness date.