best method for cleaning blow off hoses?

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what are the best methods of cleaning a blow off tube? i try to get to it as soon as possible before is hardens but its such a pain, any tricks?

i remember some one had a cool tube with elbows to pull apart and easy to scrum but I want to use smaller dia tube than that guy.
 
Take a piece of paper towel and wad it up so that it fit's in the tube tightly. Use the carboy/bottle washer to push a few pieces through. This will remove crud as long as you don't let it dry first. For that caked on stuff, bleach or oxyclean works pretty well.
 
I soaked mine in PBW and after I let it soak a while, tied a string to the wire loop on my bottle brush, fed the string thru the tube and then pulled my brush backwards through the tube.
 
sigmund said:
I soaked mine in PBW and after I let it soak a while, tied a string to the wire loop on my bottle brush, fed the string thru the tube and then pulled my brush backwards through the tube.
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Does this method make scratches that could trap bacteria or anything?
 
juse said:
Does this method make scratches that could trap bacteria or anything?
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I'm sure that it's possible to scratch the surface, but the way I look at it, I'm doing more good than harm. The wire loop on the brush isn't really what I'd consider abrasive and I usually only pull it through once.
 
I soak mine in my MLT cooler with a little bleach. It cleans both at the same time.
 
I use a piece of solid wire, (using plastic insulated solid copper will prevent any scratching), to one end of the wire I make a hook and attach 2,3 or more pipe cleaners, dip the pipe cleaners in oxy-clean and pull it thru the tube. This works well for beverage dip tube on cornie kegs too.
 
After my first batch of beer I immediately soaked the blow off hose in water. Then I soaked it in oxyclean. It has a milky look to it now. Should I worry about this? I'm pretty sure it's clean, but it not being completely transparent has me wondering.
 
Here's mine. I just used a bottle cleaner to scrub the gunk out after a PBW soak.

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