Finally decided I wanted that keg washer, so I ordered it from MoreBeer when they had a sale.
I read and read about it, including the fitting that allows one to connect to the beer out post on the keg. Part of the discussion I read was whether to even do that, or whether it made sense to do them both--I wanted to run cleaning solution through both posts, even though the gas tube is short, why not?
I decided to set it up to do both, so I went to the home store and bought a plastic barbed tee fitting. Two bucks. I made up a couple of quick disconnects, one each for in and out. I connected it all to the barbed tee, then used a 2" piece of tubing to connect to the supplied fitting.
Pics below. I could not believe how fast this cleaned the kegs. Both had the usual gunk on the bottom. After five minutes there was no discernable dirt left inside of the kegs. I let them run another five minutes, then rinsed them out. I dumped the cleaning solution (which was pretty groty by then), rinsed the platform base, then filled with Star-San solution. I hooked up each keg again, and ran Star-San through them for a couple minutes. Star San foams up pretty good, but after only a couple minutes running it through I'm comfortable they're both cleaned and sanitized.
I'm sold.
I read and read about it, including the fitting that allows one to connect to the beer out post on the keg. Part of the discussion I read was whether to even do that, or whether it made sense to do them both--I wanted to run cleaning solution through both posts, even though the gas tube is short, why not?
I decided to set it up to do both, so I went to the home store and bought a plastic barbed tee fitting. Two bucks. I made up a couple of quick disconnects, one each for in and out. I connected it all to the barbed tee, then used a 2" piece of tubing to connect to the supplied fitting.
Pics below. I could not believe how fast this cleaned the kegs. Both had the usual gunk on the bottom. After five minutes there was no discernable dirt left inside of the kegs. I let them run another five minutes, then rinsed them out. I dumped the cleaning solution (which was pretty groty by then), rinsed the platform base, then filled with Star-San solution. I hooked up each keg again, and ran Star-San through them for a couple minutes. Star San foams up pretty good, but after only a couple minutes running it through I'm comfortable they're both cleaned and sanitized.
I'm sold.
