Cleaning keg an keg lines

Danno81 · Jul 27, 2013

I just finished my first keg of home brew so I decided I would go ahead and clean and sanitize everything so I started out by just rinsing my keg an then I put some no rinse cleaner in it and a small amount of star San and THEN IT CAME TO ME .... THE GREATEST IDEA EVER!!! So I put the lid on my keg sealed it up and put it in the kegerator turned on the co2 and ran it through all my lines and faucets! Whalla took 5 min and no mess! Completely clean and sanatized !

Danno81 · Jul 27, 2013

Note: I only turned on the gas for about 30 seconds!

I didn't want to waste too much. Just enough to pump it out

butterpants · Jul 27, 2013

I rinse out my dirty keg with the hose (disassemble poppets, seals, tubes then back together) then add 5 gal of super hot tap water plus a generous helping of PBW. Let it soak and hour then hook it up to the lines. Over the next hour, I stop and start run maybe a gallon out of the taps.

I then rinse the keg a bunch with a ambient temp hose and next 1 gallon of hot water.

Fill the keg with a few gallons of star san water and hook her back up to the taps. Run the gallon through.

Disconnect keg, pour out excess star san, relube Orings, pressurize at 25psi to seat, bleed off a little and I'm done. Keg is ready for next brew or to be stored. I leave the star san in the lines a bit and the next brew just pushes it out (obviously not drinking the first glass).

*disclaimer* I don't know if this is right, proper or could possibly kill millions of innocent baby harp seals but it's the way I do it and seems logical.

Danno81 · Jul 27, 2013

Awesome I used a couple galons of hot water mixed with the cleaner and star San I ran about a gallon through and left the keg hooked up I haven't rinsed it yet I just figured I'd leave the solution in there until I'm ready to fill it up again