A few years ago I kegged a sour beer. I was worried about the bugs later, so I soaked in straight bleach for a week. The end of the dip tube "rusted", or at least it disintegrated.
This morning I kegged a beer and when I applied gas beer started seeping out the bottom of the keg. It was somehow working its way through a pinhole in the black rubber boot of the keg. I cut some of the boot off and found the obvious hole. I'm assuming this is the same keg that I put the bleach into. Keg is in the recycle bin now. In the pics below, you can see the little holes that were there on the inside and the outside, under the rubber. The hole is obvious now, but that's because I was messing with it. Before I cut the boot off and fingered the hell out of it, it just sort of looked like a rust-colored stain down there. Bona fide hole now.
Moral of the story: don't use pure bleach on stainless for any extended time.
This morning I kegged a beer and when I applied gas beer started seeping out the bottom of the keg. It was somehow working its way through a pinhole in the black rubber boot of the keg. I cut some of the boot off and found the obvious hole. I'm assuming this is the same keg that I put the bleach into. Keg is in the recycle bin now. In the pics below, you can see the little holes that were there on the inside and the outside, under the rubber. The hole is obvious now, but that's because I was messing with it. Before I cut the boot off and fingered the hell out of it, it just sort of looked like a rust-colored stain down there. Bona fide hole now.
Moral of the story: don't use pure bleach on stainless for any extended time.
