Best practice for storing tubes?

[joenearboston]

I have lots of tubes for various brewing processes (mashing, plate chiller, transferring, etc).

I set the tubes out to dry after use, but I still see water droplets after a few weeks. I'm concerned about mold or other issues from dampness.

I wanted to see what other folks were doing. Some ideas:

1) Do nothing, replace tubes at some frequency
2) Force dry using my fermentation aerator or a blow dryer
3) Store tubes in StarSan

Anything else?

 

[kpr121]

All hot side silicone tubing gets rinsed with clean water and hung over a hook in my garage.

Cold side (vinyl) gets rinsed with water than stars an and gets hung over a hook in my basement (less dust).

Don't really need to worry about sanitizing hot side items, just make sure they're clean so they don't get moldy.

 

[Kahler]

I do pretty much the same. Hot side gets rinsed with hot water, cold side gets flushed with sanitizer, both get hung in the spare shower over the curtain rod until dry. If they seem wet after a day or so I'll blow air through with a compressor, but this is rare.

 

[swackattack]

Tubes hang on brewstand after being flushed with hot water

 

[WoodlandBrew]

Same deal hear. Last rinse is with sanitizer then hang.