Hand-held beverage dispenser

A valve arrangement for selectively establishing beverage fluid flow paths through a hand-held beverage dispenser, said valve arrangement comprising:

• a valve unit including a composite valve trim assembly substantially contained within a hand-held beverage dispenser;
• a plurality of flow paths to said valve unit and a fixed flow path from said valve unit;
• wherein said composite valve trim assembly implements a gate valve adapted to:
• establish passage into said valve unit of a user selectable one of said plurality of flow paths;
• and
• block passage into said valve unit of each said plurality of flow paths other than said one of said plurality of flow paths;
• wherein said composite valve trim assembly is adapted to establish passage from said one of said plurality of flow paths to said fixed flow path from said valve unit;
• and
• wherein establishment of passage into said valve unit of a user selectable one of said plurality of flow paths is functionally independent of establishment of passage to said fixed flow path of said one of said plurality of flow paths.