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[djinkc]

BLC at a bit higher rate than recommended.  The lines are still green.  Beer seems to taste better but that may be my expectations.  What came out though.......

 

At Braindead Drew has the last beer line cleaning date on the board...................

[Mando]

Does he not work there anymore? I can't remember...

[HVB]

Does he not work there anymore? I can't remember...

I took it as the let everyone know that the lines were recently cleaned.

[djinkc]

I took it as the let everyone know that the lines were recently cleaned.

Yup

[Genesee Ted]

We have 24 lines, two blocks of twelve. We clean one side a week. Any less and they get nasty quick. We advertise the date and people genuinely appreciate it.

[gnef]

I really need to clean my lines. It has been years now. I am using bev seal ultra 235, which does help, but I still need to do my recirculation. I have Penetrate on hand, which I believe is really just a double concentrate of BLC. It is just a bit of an operation to setup my cleaning rig. I do 7 lines at once with a manifold block on the inside of the walk-in, while heating and pumping the solution through.

[Stout_fan]

I really need to clean my lines. It has been years now.

So besides the off flavors, are you also having flow rate problems?

[gnef]

So besides the off flavors, are you also having flow rate problems?

I actually don't detect any off flavors, and I do not have any flow issues. I attribute most of this to the bev seal ultra 235 tubing which has the really slick inner PET liner and forward sealing faucets (I have Perlick 650ss). The second thing I attribute this to is that I never leave a line empty after a keg kicks - I immediately put another keg on, and purge the line, so there is always liquid in the lines.

 

I have taken some of the faucets off when I pull hops from the keg and it clogs up the flow control shuttle inside the faucet.

 

The tubing shows no signs of any staining at all, which is pretty amazing.

 

I actually looked back at when I installed the tubing, and it was at the end of 2015 to early 2016, and I haven't cleaned my lines since then. I definitely think that is a testament to the beerline I'm using.

 

With that said, I do plan on doing a cleaning cycle within the next month. In preparation, I used a label maker and numbered all my lines. I've just been using the knowledge of which keg emptied to know which line to remove and reconnect - but when I clean half of the lines at once, I won't know which one is which without them being labeled. It is just a bit of an operation to clean the lines.

[Stout_fan]

and I do not have any flow issues.

Dang you're being too serious. Think plaque plugged arteries here.