What is your process with your kegs
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 12:15 PM
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 12:27 PM
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 01:18 PM
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 02:16 PM
Edited by dj in kc, 09 June 2010 - 02:20 PM.
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 02:23 PM
Does PBW eat through the beerstone?I used to clean mine with multiple hot water rinses at 140df with high pressure (hose hooked to the faucet). After a while I started to notice a beerstone buildup. That was a pain to get rid of. Now they get a light scrubbing before final rinses and sanitation. No beerstone buildup since I started that routine. It doesn't take that long, 10 sometimes 15 minutes. I'm not convinced that an oxy/PBW soak is necessary everytime - sure doesn't hurt anything though.
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 02:26 PM
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 02:30 PM
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 02:39 PM
My linkThis is as close as I can find now to what I have. Basically it is a 1 qt plastic squeeze bottle with a vent hole. The screw on lid has a fitting for a line hose. You can place this hose into the faucet (regular beer faucet on my kegerator but works with picnic taps) and I just bought some extra tubing and a gas in beer out connector. So I can use the plain tubing to flush the picnic tap and beer tube as the same time OR use the beer out fitting if I don't have a tap connected to the keg at the time. I use the gas connector to flush that connector because I don't break down the posts very often.What is this squeeze bottle thing that you use to clean the picnic tap? I have only kegged three beers and I was contemplating how to clean the picnic taps. I was going to fill a keg with oxyclean, put it on gas, and then push the old beer out and run a bunch through. Then repeat with a starsan solution.I hate to waste gas though.Cheers,Rich
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 03:03 PM
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Posted 10 June 2010 - 06:10 AM
I will also admit that I have been bad about this from time to time, which is why I'm trying to do better now that all of my equipment is new. When I broke down my 2-tap tower in March, the lines that I had been using were funky. Both of my forward seal faucets (Ventmatic Ultraflo) had sticky beer deposits in them... I was quite repulsed & a little embarrassed by it. It seems like an occasional flush with hot water & the cleaner of choice followed by another flush of the sanitizer of your choice would be enough to keep things clean.I have to admit though, I don't clean out my beverage lines very often at all. I think in the past few years, only a couple of times total. Same goes for my faucets, which I found don't really need a cleaning - they are all forward seal faucets except for the stout faucet.
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Posted 10 June 2010 - 07:10 AM
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