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TheH2

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When transferring beer from keg to bottle, make sure you release the pressure form the keg, or at the very least have the tapper connected to the beer gun/counter pressure filler which would halt the beer flow. I did not do that and it created a huge beer fountain. It obviously went everywhere with 14lbs of pressure.

On to the equipment needed to clean it up, a sham-wow. I’m 100 percent serious. My kegerator is in the basement which has the guest bed, which had a lot of beer on it, as well as the carpet about 15 - 20 feet away. I pulled out the Sham-wow, added water and cleaned up the entire mess in a couple of minutes. The carpet came clean in a matter of seconds. I didn’t know the comforter was cleaned until it dried about 30 minutes later, with no spots. I’ve used the shamwow 3 times, each time while brewing and “I’ve said wow every time”. Great $20 spent, besides you spend $20 in paper towels a month anyway, it practically pays for itself. I now use two infomercial products to brew, shamwow and oxyclean.
 
If you love the shamwow, you're gonna love my nuts!!

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Who spends $20 a month for paper towels?! Seriously!!

I for one will not buy a product that has the word "sham" in the name.

Sham:
1 : a trick that deludes : hoax
2 : cheap falseness : hypocrisy
3 : an ornamental covering for a pillow
4 : an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be genuine
5 : a person who shams
 
I bet a wet/dry shop vac would work 10x better than some lousy shamwow, and you can use it for a ton of things...
 
I have no clue what I spend on paper towels and shamwow has not reduced those costs. I still use paper towels for most everything, with the exception of the bigger spills.
 
That's like comparing a Dyson to dust buster, one costs significantly more so it better work a lot better.
 
I can see lots of uses for a shamwow, but I bet they'd probably happen about once a month for me, if that.

I go through $20 worth of Kleenex in a month. Is there a Shamwow for that?
 
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