postal_penguin

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All my kegs do get cleaned. Rinse with water, hook up to gas, rinse out dip tube and line with a few gallons of water. Then its the same with Oxyclean Free except I let the Oxyclean sit for about 30 minutes. Then its the same with Star-san. If oxyclean can clean my Better bottle in 30 minutes, it'll clean anything in the poppets out just as easily.

The original poster was asking how to sanitize his dip tube, not how to clean the keg. Taking the whole thing apart to clean it is not needed if the thing is already clean.

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Secondary: Empty
Keg 1: Hefe
Keg 2: Irish Stout
Keg 3: Peach Kolsch
Keg 4: Empty
Bottled: Bourbon Vanilla Porter, Chocolate Stout

Golddiggie

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While I'll agree that you might not need to break it down every time, you should [probably] do it [at least] from time to time...

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Waiting/Carbonating: MO SMaSH
Primaries
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K2: Mocha Porter
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K4:
K5:
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On Deck: mocha porter
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Yooper

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I've taken off my "out" post, and it has tons of crud and hops debris in it. If it's not cleaned, you can rinse it all you want and it's still not clean! I've pulled out a diptube from ONE keg and held it up to the light and seen tons of crud and debris in there. If that's ok with the brewer, that's ok with me. I would never do it myself, but that's where we differ. It'd be like rinsing a dirty bottle, or rinsing dirty dishes and calling it good. Not up to my standards at all. I go to WAY too much trouble with my beers and wouldn't skip a 5 minute job in kegging. Remember you can't sanitize something if it's dirty.

This is a good example of how different brewers do things differently and are happy with their product, so it's all good.

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postal_penguin

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To each his own but I have never seen any gunk on any of my equipment that can survive Oxyclean soaks. It literally strips the dried on krausen off my better bottles, never had to scrub them. I've soaked moldy glass bottles(mold that wont come out with vigorous shaking) from the recycling and the mold floats right on out after 30 minutes. They always come out sparkling. So I figure if it can do that to my glass bottles, it will clean out the dip tube fine. But cleaning it never hurts. :-)

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Primary: Apfelwein, Raspberry Lambic, Experimental Wheat cider, IPA
Secondary: Empty
Keg 1: Hefe
Keg 2: Irish Stout
Keg 3: Peach Kolsch
Keg 4: Empty
Bottled: Bourbon Vanilla Porter, Chocolate Stout

BeerCanuck

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When initially rinsing a keg I usually have my hot water supply hose connected to a beer out quick disconnect allowing the beer out assembly on the cornie to be fully backflushed. This also pressure washes the trub adhering to the bottom of the keg at the same time.
I know this doesn't qualify as sanitizing but its an effective way of initially rinsing a cornie.

Cheers;
BeerCanuck

E-Mursed

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Bought this wrench and getting keg posts off is much easier.

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