Beer line cleaning issue

[Jkrags]

Hi all. We've been kegging for a while, but splurged months back and bought a shiny new 3 tap kegerator. Had a party and excitedly bought a sanke low profile coupler so we could put a local craft brewers beer on one of the lines. Well that keg kicked and we returned it and now realize, we have no way to clean that beer line. I started to try and disconnect the coupler, but it was difficult and then thought well this is going to be a lot of work and dumb as we may want to get another sanke keg in the future. Don't really want to have to buy a dedicated sanke cleaning keg just for that one line. Any ideas?

 

[DuncB]

How did you attach the beer line to the coupler?

 

[ClaudiusB]

Hi all. We've been kegging for a while, but splurged months back and bought a shiny new 3 tap kegerator. Had a party and excitedly bought a sanke low profile coupler so we could put a local craft brewers beer on one of the lines. Well that keg kicked and we returned it and now realize, we have no way to clean that beer line. I started to try and disconnect the coupler, but it was difficult and then thought well this is going to be a lot of work and dumb as we may want to get another sanke keg in the future. Don't really want to have to buy a dedicated sanke cleaning keg just for that one line. Any ideas?

Convert your Sanke coupler to work with the regular Cornies. Those adapters are available all over the internet.

 

[Jkrags]

How did you attach the beer line to the coupler?

Because it's low profile coupler to fit a sixtel in the kegerator we had to attach it like this.

 

[Jkrags]

Convert your Sanke coupler to work with the regular Cornies. Those adapters are available all over the internet.

Thanks ClaudiusB. But I think the way we have it set up I don't think the adapter will work . But I will poke around online to see if there's something like this that might work

 

[DuncB]

Looks quite easy to take that beer line off the coupler.
Then attach a kegland red or yellow plastic carbonation / keg post and then attach tube and flush line through with water, pbw and then Starsan.

 

[mac_1103]

But I think the way we have it set up I don't think the adapter will work

I don't see why not based on your photo. It's just a pair of ball lock posts that screw onto the coupler. Won't change the height at all.

 

[Broken Crow]

Here's a couple options:
Dunno how you normally clean your lines, but there is always the popular hand-pump bottle that attaches to the shank..you just have to push something against the check-valve ball in the coupler to let your cleaner flow through; https://www.morebeer.com/products/beer-line-cleaning-kit.html
I does sound wasteful of a tap to leave a sanke coupler permanantly connected if it's only used occasionally, so putting the ball-lock adapters on your sanke coupler just makes sense and I've seen that they are available: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/keg_coupler_sanke_d_lp_bl.htm also; a low-profile adapter with duotight fittings: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/keg_coupler_sanke_d_lpduotight.htm
You could probably just ask Bobby which ball lock adapters he uses for the first link.

 

[DuncB]

If you can't fit the ball lock adapter on directly to the low profile snake.
You could just cut the tube leaving a short tail and fit the kegland plastic ball lock " post ". Then couplers would fit and easy to add in your sanke for parties.
https://kegland.com.au/products/yel...-6-35mm-duotight?_pos=4&_psq=car&_ss=e&_v=1.0

You might be able to find an SS version of this adapter.

 

[Jkrags]

Here's a couple options:
Dunno how you normally clean your lines, but there is always the popular hand-pump bottle that attaches to the shank..you just have to push something against the check-valve ball in the coupler to let your cleaner flow through; https://www.morebeer.com/products/beer-line-cleaning-kit.html
I does sound wasteful of a tap to leave a sanke coupler permanantly connected if it's only used occasionally, so putting the ball-lock adapters on your sanke coupler just makes sense and I've seen that they are available: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/keg_coupler_sanke_d_lp_bl.htm also; a low-profile adapter with duotight fittings: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/keg_coupler_sanke_d_lpduotight.htm
You could probably just ask Bobby which ball lock adapters he uses for the first link.

These are all some great options! Thank you so much for taking the time to send all this info! Really appreciate the ideas

 

[Jkrags]

If you can't fit the ball lock adapter on directly to the low profile snake.
You could just cut the tube leaving a short tail and fit the kegland plastic ball lock " post ". Then couplers would fit and easy to add in your sanke for parties.
https://kegland.com.au/products/yel...-6-35mm-duotight?_pos=4&_psq=car&_ss=e&_v=1.0

You might be able to find an SS version of this adapter.

Also a good idea. Thank you DuncB

 

[Ki-ri-n]

See here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...k-low-profile-sankey-tap-to-ball-lock.385478/

some of the part numbers dont work anymore but you get the idea.