Need a cheap "while I wait for my other stuff to ship" way to sanitize beer lines...

[sixstring]

Ok, I've been waiting on this thing: https://www.morebeer.com/products/kegland-rechargeable-power-sprayer-33-oz.html forever (it feels like). I've got the little adapter for it, etc, all ready and waiting. So it's now been a few months since I ordered it and still not been shipped. I guess there's some huge supply/demand issue for these things?
So can anyone recommend a power spray bottle or something that I can use with the QD adapter I bought for the kegland power sprayer? Or something that I can use with a ball lock QD beer line so i can just push the cleaner through the line from the QD up through the tap?
Just cheap, like really cheap will work for now until i get this bloody thing

 

[hottpeper13]

I just hook mine up to a keg with sanitizer and push it with ~5 psi of CO2 and collect it from the tap in a bucket.

 

[firerat]

I fill a keg with cleaner and use a hand pump to push it and collect from the tap that has a line attached to a fitting and a line to a bucket.

 

[jschein]

I use this ; https://www.morebeer.com/products/ball-lock-line-cleaning-kit-mini-party-pump.html

 

[IslandLizard]

I just hook mine up to a keg with sanitizer and push it with ~5 psi of CO2 and collect it from the tap in a bucket.

That's what I do too.
Since I have a faucet/sink close by, after the initial tap water rinse, I circulate warm/hottish PBW, followed by a thorough rinse-out with tap water. Then a round of Starsan for good measure.

Instead of using relatively pricey CO2 you can use a bicycle pump or an air compressor (at lowish 5-10 psi pressure!) to pressurize your keg.

Or use a brew pump.

 

[sixstring]

I use this ; https://www.morebeer.com/products/ball-lock-line-cleaning-kit-mini-party-pump.html

oh yeah, that's cheap. So this will just screw on a soda bottle like a 2L coke bottle or something?

 

[sixstring]

That's what I do too.
Since I have a faucet/sink close by, after the initial tap water rinse, I circulate warm/hottish PBW, followed by a thorough rinse-out with tap water. Then a round of Starsan for good measure.

Instead of using relatively pricey CO2 you can use a bicycle pump or an air compressor (at lowish 5-10 psi pressure!) to pressurize your keg.

Or use a brew pump.

How would you connect the bike pump to the keg? That'd be a great work around too. I wouldn't mind having that as another backup option in case the power sprayer failed and it took another 4 months to get a new one.

 

[IslandLizard]

oh yeah, that's cheap. So this will just screw on a soda bottle like a 2L coke bottle or something?

A regular (plastic bottle) carbonator lid cap could do the same thing.
Just a put a piece of tubing on the (inner) barb, reaching the bottom of the bottle.
You could even just squeeze the soda bottle to move the cleaning/sanitation fluid through the line. No gas pressure needed.

 

[IslandLizard]

How would you connect the bike pump to the keg? That'd be a great work around too. I wouldn't mind having that as another backup option in case the power sprayer failed and it took another 4 months to get a new one.

You've got to find a way to get a piece of hose connected to the pump's nipple/hose.

I tend to have around a cleaned, empty corny keg with 12-15 psi of CO2 in it.
Just in case...

 

[sixstring]

A regular (plastic bottle) carbonator lid cap could do the same thing.
Just a put a piece of tubing on the (inner) barb, reaching the bottom of the bottle.
You could even just squeeze the soda bottle to move the cleaning/sanitation fluid through the line. No gas pressure needed.

ok that's something I have already. I'll start there. Thanks.

 

[sibelman]

This HDX unit from Home Depot will do the deed for $12.47.
I paid a few bucks more for a version that claimed to handle nasty chemicals better - but my quick web search didn't show it.

 

[brewingupastorm]

I use a large pond pump sometimes. Push a bucket of cleaner through each line, recirculating cleaner til I'm happy. Then a couple buckets of clean water to flush it out. Then recirculating starsan through each line and leave it in the lines until pushed by beer. I also use the pump for cleaning inside carboys with a pvc pipe so it blasts upward and reciruclates. Other uses too I suppose but mainly cleaning bottles and carboys and lines.

 

[Willy]

I also use a sump pump that has a high gpm flow rate. That sits in a bucket of PBW or BLC and goes to a 4 way manifold, liquid posts, wide open. I have all the taps pulled to pour with hoses that return to the sanitation bucket.

Run it for 10 minutes or so then rinse with water. And rerinse for good luck. Ha.

 

[sixstring]

Just wanted to let everyone know, that the kegland power sprayers are now shipping again. Mine just got shipped the other day. However, I have to say the hand pump that sibelman linked me to works brilliantly.

This HDX unit from Home Depot will do the deed for $12.47.

I'd say don't bother with the power sprayer and just get a hand pump sprayer. It's cheaper, simpler and you won't need to worry about recharging it (I'm sure some of the wiser members here would've said that to start with, but I was all gung ho about getting one as it looked like a great way to clean my lines quickly and easily. But now I'm a little wiser and I say don't bother, get the hand pump. If you have many lines, then get a bigger hand pump. But I only have two, so the 1 gallon works fine)