Sanitizing boil kettle bulkhead and ball valve?

[whoaru99]

Added a drain bulkhead fitting and ball valve to my boil kettle. Did a test fire just boiling 5 gal water and it passed with no leaking.

But, the ball valve is not hot at all. I can easily keep my fingers on it without pulling back. In the future I will have hot recirculation so it will take care of itself then.

For now though, how do I try to ensure the ball valve is sanitized before I drain cooled wort though it?

 

[day_trippr]

If you heat your strike water in the boil kettle when you run that out to the mash tun it'll sanitize the ball valve and bulkhead...

Cheers!

 

[whoaru99]

I'm doing an extract brew this time so no mash. But, your suggestion does help because I can drain boiling water through it and pour back into the kettle before I put in extract and hops.

DOH! I should have thought of that.