Beer-dispensing system and apparatus

A beer-dispensing apparatus including a source of pressurized, gas-ladened cooled beer, a beer-dispensing station remote from the source of beer, an elongate beer delivery line with an upstream end connected with the source of beer and a downstream end at the beer-dispensing station, a refrigerated glycol chilling unit, elongate glycol delivery and return lines with upstream and downstream ends connected with the chilling unit, pump means continuously moving glycol through the chilling unit and the glycol delivery and return lines, a heat exchanger beer-dispensing tower at the beer-dispensing station and including an elongate stainless steel beer-conducting balance tube that is smaller in inside diameter than the beer line and has an upstream end connected with the downstream end of the beer line, a normally closed selectively operable beer-dispensing valve connected with a downstream end of the balance tube, an elongate stainless steel glycol-conducting tube with a portion extending longitudinally of and in heat-conducting relationship with the balance tube and having an upstream end connected with a downstream end of the glycol delivery line and a downstream end connected with an upstream end of the glycol return line, chilled glycol flowing through the glycol tube chills beer as it flows downstream through the balance line to the valve.