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10-05-2009, 01:52 AM
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Do I need to clean the cornie?
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I just emptied my cornie keg and have a hefeweizen ready for the keg. Rather than clean/rinse/sanitize it can I simply take the cornie lid off and fill it up with the hefe. Any chance of off flavors from the prior beer? Guess I am gettting lazy.
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10-05-2009, 02:08 AM
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You might get away with it once, or many times, but it's going to bite you eventually.
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10-05-2009, 02:24 AM
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Since a hefe derives flavor from the yeast. I wouldn't want to mix the sediment from another type of beer into it. Thats just me though. In the end you will get bit.
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10-05-2009, 02:42 AM
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Why even chance it? You spent all this time, effort and $ brewing the hefe.
It takes 10 minutes to disassemble, clean and sanitize.
Scrub-a-dub-dub!
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10-05-2009, 10:52 AM
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i'm pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning... but since you have the lid off, you might as well throw some water in and put a brush to it. I almost never do the connectors and havent had any trouble...
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10-05-2009, 12:24 PM
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Drink your beer!
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Remember that a keg is just a big bottle. Would you bottle your beer in uncleaned bottles?
Rinsing out, tearing down and sanitizing the keg takes less than 10 minutes. But if you don't want to fully tear it down, and least rinse it well and then put some sanitizer in there and shake it up.
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10-05-2009, 01:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by YooperBrew
Remember that a keg is just a big bottle. Would you bottle your beer in uncleaned bottles?
Rinsing out, tearing down and sanitizing the keg takes less than 10 minutes. But if you don't want to fully tear it down, and least rinse it well and then put some sanitizer in there and shake it up.
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thats a good way of looking at it. I am going to give it a good clean. I have high hopes for this hefe so don't want any regrets due to my laziness.
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10-05-2009, 01:25 PM
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I don't always take mine completely apart. A rinse with hot water, then a short soak with 1 gallon of oxyclean, shake, dispense it out of both poppets, rinse. 1 gallon of sanitizer, shake, rest, shake, dispense all of it through both poppets. I'll ususually do that when I JUST kicked a keg and it was a beer that went relatively quickly. Certainly not something to do with an ex barleywine or Flanders Red keg.
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10-05-2009, 02:02 PM
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What do you do when you REALLY clean out a keg?
Curious, as the above is what I usually do, adding the step of taking out the posts, poppets and soaking them in star san after rinsing and checking for debris. I then put it all together, lube the gaskets,dump in a gallon of star san, pressure test, shake and dispense out all the star san.
Is this a good cleaning? I don't use any brushes or hot water.
Maybe a total hot water scrub every 2 to 3 times is in order?
time to order more kegs!
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10-05-2009, 02:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby_M
I don't always take mine completely apart. A rinse with hot water, then a short soak with 1 gallon of oxyclean, shake, dispense it out of both poppets, rinse. 1 gallon of sanitizer, shake, rest, shake, dispense all of it through both poppets. I'll ususually do that when I JUST kicked a keg and it was a beer that went relatively quickly. Certainly not something to do with an ex barleywine or Flanders Red keg.
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What do you do for "serious cleaning"? Oxiclean followed by rinsing and star san with posts removed seems pretty elaborate cleaning to me.......
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