marcb
Well-Known Member
I've been thinking about this for awhile and recently divested my corny collection in favor of 1/6th BBL Sankes. Now I need to wash them and pulling the snap ring and spear every time in order to clean them is a pain in the you know what. I decided to do this in an inexpensive fashion and set a budget of $500 for the job, then proceeded to ignore the budget and spent lots more $$$ than I should have but here I will document my build! The basic gist is two 10 gallon kettles with lots of TC ports from ebay, a march nano pump, some three way valves, lots of TC fittings, high temp/high pressure tubing, more three way valves that will break into air and CO2 fittings and a drainage bucket and a micromatic sanke D type cleaning and filling coupling.... oh and then about 40 linear feet of stainless tubing to keep it interesting : )
The basic process will be:
0.Fill reservoir0 with CIP solution (Acid based), Fill reservoir1 with low foam sanitizer
1.Place keg inverted on the stand and hook up the micromatic head.
2. Open drain valve to bucket and compressed air valve to drain the old crap from the keg - then close when emptied
3. Open reservoir0 supply valve to pump, open drainage valve to return to reservoir0, engage pump - cleaning cycle. Complete, turn off pump - close valves
4. Open reservoir1 supply valve to pump, open drainage valve to return to reservoir1, engage pump - sanitizing cycle. Complete, turn off pump - close valves
5. Open drainage valve to bucket, Open CO2 valve, purge vessel. close all valves
6. remove keg, repeat as necessary
The basic process will be:
0.Fill reservoir0 with CIP solution (Acid based), Fill reservoir1 with low foam sanitizer
1.Place keg inverted on the stand and hook up the micromatic head.
2. Open drain valve to bucket and compressed air valve to drain the old crap from the keg - then close when emptied
3. Open reservoir0 supply valve to pump, open drainage valve to return to reservoir0, engage pump - cleaning cycle. Complete, turn off pump - close valves
4. Open reservoir1 supply valve to pump, open drainage valve to return to reservoir1, engage pump - sanitizing cycle. Complete, turn off pump - close valves
5. Open drainage valve to bucket, Open CO2 valve, purge vessel. close all valves
6. remove keg, repeat as necessary