Advice for All-Electric CIP (post-brew)?

makisupa said:

I'm interested in how others are cleaning their electric brew rigs after they brew. I ask because I feel as though my current cleaning procedure is very lengthy. Here's what I do:

• While the boil is going on dispose of the spent grains and give a quick rinse to the mash tun
• I use an immersion chiller in the BK so my "first runnings" from the chiller water go directly into the mash tun (10-gal) and then the next "runnings" I place in the HLT (10-gal). This leave me with 20-gal of 100-deg water to clean with
• After the kettle empties, I pump my warm water from the mash tun into the BK and apply OxiClean
• I recycle the OxiClean water in the BK for 5-10 min.
• I dump that water and pump the fresh water from the HLT into the BK and rinse with that

Is that really all I can do? It's not exactly as quick as it sounds.

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makisupa said:

@samnc
Yeah. Maybe I'm just being impatient.

@magnj
Uh oh. My kettles are aluminum also. Am I not to use OxiClean on them?

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Randar said:

Your mash should be relatively acidic and metal surface should be pretty clean after a quick rinse. I find I don't have to do much more than rinse out the mash tun and maybe hit it with a little blue kitchen scrubby only very briefly.

I am sure you are not hurting anything, but if you're dumping grains, do you really need to CIP the MT?

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