Cleaning a 1 in ID blowoff tube

[Chefboubou]

After the 1st use of my blowoff tube, I let it soaked in warm soapy water for a day, the rinsed again with warm water then hanged to dry. Once dry, it was stained like &$-&$. I didn't want to use a brush in there so I figured a way to use a small piece of fabric (soaked in sanitizer), a fishing float and fishing wire... Then

 

[Chefboubou]

Then I pulled it a few times in either ways and sprayed sanitizer in there. I guess that's the best I can do!!! Any other ideas?

 

[amandabab]

#6 solid stopper, fill it with oxyclean

 

[day_trippr]

1" OD tube brush with 4' long ss handle.
Don't know why one would be brush-adverse on a blow-off tube...

Cheers!

 

[Chefboubou]

Don't know why one would be brush-adverse on a blow-off tube...

Cheers!

Brushes in vinyl tubes could result in scratches?

 

[day_trippr]

Brushes in vinyl tubes could result in scratches?

I've been using one for years on my blow-off tubes and see no evidence of same, but ok, let's stipulate that a soft nylon brush could scratch a vinyl blow-off tube.

Then what?

I soak my blow-off hoses in Star-San for the entire time I'm brewing a batch, so like four hours exposed to something that works in 30 seconds. And there have been dozens of times that enough foam ran up the arc of a blow-off and dripped back down into the carboy over the years - yet I've never had an infected batch [knock wood].

The 1" tube brush works great to take the film left from fermentation off the inside of the blow-off tubes so they're clean and ready for the next batch. I see no problems using the brush...

Cheers!

 

[Irrelephant]

#6 solid stopper, fill it with oxyclean

This. Get the oxyclean without any "flavoring" or scent, I forget what they call it officially but get that stuff.

 

[bigtex52]

This. Get the oxyclean without any "flavoring" or scent, I forget what they call it officially but get that stuff.

Oxyclean"Free"

 

[govner1]

I hook my tubing up to my Marks Keg washer adapter & rinse w/ B Brite in hot water, then rinse with cool water and dry.

 

[Tupperwolf]

i don't see how scratching the inside of a blowoff tube could hurt anything. Supposing it does harbor some bacteria - Soak in Starsan so any contamination is minimal - I doubt anything is going to fly its way into your beer - by the time fermentation takes off there will be enough positive pressure to definitely keep it out. After a couple of days you can switch to an airlock anyway.