I built one of those some time back. I love it.Inkleg wrote:My cleaner and jumper
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Keg Cleaning
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Re: Keg Cleaning
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Re: Keg Cleaning
I had that happen to me, too!Gymrat wrote:I built one of those some time back. I love it.Inkleg wrote:My cleaner and jumper
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Re: Keg Cleaning
I don't disassemble my kegs every time either. I do it once or twice a year, but I do wash my kegs out as soon as they kick.
Standard practice for me:
- Run hot water in keg and slosh around a few times to get the trub off the keg. Wipe down with a wet papertowel after dumping water a few times.
Then, add some PBW and let it sit for about 30 minutes, then invert with the lid on for 30 minutes. About 5 minutes into the soak I push some through my keg line.
- Rinse multiple times with hot water, also flushing the keg line
- Fill with some StarSan and slosh around, pushing a bit through the line as well, but leaving just enough in the keg beforehand so I 'blow' the keg with StarSan so nothing stays sitting in the line
The keg is now sanitized and pressurized, ready to be put away.
The line has been cleaned and sanitized and is now awaiting a new keg to be attached.
If I have one ready to jump in, which isn't often, I would forgo the cleaning of the line and just hook up the new keg. I'd only do this 2-3 times before wanting to clean the line, though.
Standard practice for me:
- Run hot water in keg and slosh around a few times to get the trub off the keg. Wipe down with a wet papertowel after dumping water a few times.
Then, add some PBW and let it sit for about 30 minutes, then invert with the lid on for 30 minutes. About 5 minutes into the soak I push some through my keg line.
- Rinse multiple times with hot water, also flushing the keg line
- Fill with some StarSan and slosh around, pushing a bit through the line as well, but leaving just enough in the keg beforehand so I 'blow' the keg with StarSan so nothing stays sitting in the line
The keg is now sanitized and pressurized, ready to be put away.
The line has been cleaned and sanitized and is now awaiting a new keg to be attached.
If I have one ready to jump in, which isn't often, I would forgo the cleaning of the line and just hook up the new keg. I'd only do this 2-3 times before wanting to clean the line, though.
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Re: Keg Cleaning
I am glad to know that I am not the only one that does it the way I do. Just a thing to throw out there though, Make sure that you have stainless dip tubes and not aluminum. PBW eats aluminum. I learned that with my first 7 gallon aluminum pot. I left PBW in it over night and it pitted badly.