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Do you use Dish soap to clean your brewpot?


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Poll: Brew pot cleanup (10 member(s) have cast votes)

Do you use dish soap for cleaning? if not , what other?

  1. Dish Soap (1 votes [7.69%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.69%

  2. PBW (5 votes [38.46%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 38.46%

  3. Other(generic) (7 votes [53.85%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 53.85%

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#1 BarelyBrews

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 10:00 AM

I just cleaned my New Brewpot with an over night soak of PBW. I have been using dish soap for years for cleanup, i am going to go back to using my PBW only for cleanup. I only use PBW in my kegs and systems, interested in what you people do..LOL



#2 Bklmt2000

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 10:06 AM

I use PBW for general cleaning around my brewery, but in some cases (like for stubborn beerstone in my kettles) i use straight Star-san then follow w/ PBW to really clean the crud off.



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Posted 18 February 2018 - 10:07 AM

PBW, oxiclean or Craft Meister cleaners.

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 10:14 AM

Dish soap for my brewing equipment is a big no-no IMO.



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Posted 18 February 2018 - 11:23 AM

Oxi clean



#6 denny

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 11:46 AM

Craftmeister



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Posted 18 February 2018 - 02:07 PM

oxiclean.  BKF for the burnt on stuff.



#8 gnef

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 03:58 PM

usually for the brewpot I use bar keeper's friend to really scrub stuff off when it gets bad.

 

As for typical maintenance, a scrubby will clean it well enough, even some of the beerstone.

 

The only time I've intentionally used other chemicals with it were when I needed to use the kettle for its heat and the pumps to pump cleaners through other stuff to clean. I have a small pot I use to recirculate cleaner through the taps lines, I have also recirculated cleaner through my stainless racking cane (it had visible beerstone buildup).

 

That said, it is probably about time to recirculate some chemicals through the system to do a thorough cleaning.



#9 jayb151

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Posted 18 February 2018 - 07:48 PM

I only use dish soap for the stuff that can fit in the sink, hydrometer, vourlauf pitcher, etc. Everything else gets some combo of star san or generic oxyclean. Even so, Legit PBW is so much better!



#10 Big Nake

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Posted 19 February 2018 - 07:17 AM

At the end of brewday I may put a small amount of dish soap or hand soap on a sponge to clean the hop gunk, etc. off the kettle but if we're talking about "beerstone", for that I use the leftover Starsan from the brewday. I leave it in there for a few hours and then pour it out and wipe it clean with a sponge. Starsan takes the beerstone right off.

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Posted 21 February 2018 - 02:55 PM

PBW or Oxyclean.  I let is sit for half and hour and it magically cleans everything.



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Posted 21 February 2018 - 03:17 PM

Oxyclean

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Posted 21 February 2018 - 07:22 PM

I use barkeepers friend on all my stainless.




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