I make up a keg of PBW and run it through the line. Rinse water, sanitizer.
Yeah I was hoping there would be a solution that didn't involve an empty keg. They're all full!
Steve
Search for DIY beer line cleaner. There is a good thread on how to make a manual pump beer line cleaner (no keg required). I'd post the link but have no clue how to using the iPad app.
Coincidentally, that long lived thread was awakened today.
I built one and am a big fan. No need to tie up a keg, it doesn't require using up any CO2, it's way easier to deal with on a keezer system than schlepping a cleaning keg in and out, and as it only takes a few ounces of solution to clean out a line, there's little to no waste. It's so easy to use you'll use it often.
Highly recommended. Put the keg to something more useful - like holding another brew...
Cheers!
IMO/IME, not needed. As I posted, I use the keg that JUST kicked to clean the line it was on. So no dedicated hardware is needed. Since you need to clean out that keg anyway, why not kill two birds with one salvo?
Use to do that, and it doesn't really counter the "pros" for a small capacity hand-pumped cleaner. That's why I built the DIY cleaner in the first place.
What happens if you want to clean some lines and all of your kegs have beer in them?
Cheers!
[aside: long day in the big city, I'll be glad to get home tomorrow!]
[...]BTW, where do you connect the line cleaner to? The ones I've seen require you to remove the faucet in order to clean the lines. With my method, you don't. Plus, you clean the faucets (internally) at the same time.
the DIY setup cost me about 8 bucks and took less than a minute to build. You leave everything in place and just disconnect the liquid out connector from the keg and hook it right to the cleaner. Pressurize, open tap, clean. Repeat for all taps, then get clean water and clear water through each. It's like a 5 minute process.
It connects directly to the beer line QD...
Cheers!
Simply put almost all of my beers are on tap longer than the time span I use for cleaning my lines which is one month.
Enter your email address to join: