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@Progger
A counterflow wort chiller has the same issue (cleaning the inside of copper tubing, vs, the outside.) On brew day, during the boil, I fill my bottling bucket with 5 gallons of star san, and run that through the wort chiller into my fermentation bucket. It takes a few minutes, and it's dynamic, so it can carry away anything inside the chiller. It sanitizes the chiller, the tubing (high temp, food grade silicon tubing) used, and the fermentation chamber. When it comes time to drain the hot wort from the kettle, I hook up the tubing, and guide the exit of the tube into a catch basin. Once the star san solution is purged and I see wort exiting, I close the ball valve, and put the exit of the tube into the fermenter. At the end of brew day, I flush the inside of the chiller with the hottest water I can stand from the sink, for about a minute, in both directions, and I tilt the unit until the water drains out. Haven't had any problems with contamination so far.
@Progger
A counterflow wort chiller has the same issue (cleaning the inside of copper tubing, vs, the outside.) On brew day, during the boil, I fill my bottling bucket with 5 gallons of star san, and run that through the wort chiller into my fermentation bucket. It takes a few minutes, and it's dynamic, so it can carry away anything inside the chiller. It sanitizes the chiller, the tubing (high temp, food grade silicon tubing) used, and the fermentation chamber. When it comes time to drain the hot wort from the kettle, I hook up the tubing, and guide the exit of the tube into a catch basin. Once the star san solution is purged and I see wort exiting, I close the ball valve, and put the exit of the tube into the fermenter. At the end of brew day, I flush the inside of the chiller with the hottest water I can stand from the sink, for about a minute, in both directions, and I tilt the unit until the water drains out. Haven't had any problems with contamination so far.
