So, uh, oops: Mold invades my “kegerator”

[hardrain]

I use the term kegerator loosely, here, it’s really just a wine chiller I took the shelves out of to make room for my keg and co2 tank.

Anyway, I moved recently and (for the first time) wasn’t the one who kicked the keg. The “hired” help then unplugged the chiller with keg, tank and some spilt beer still inside.

I forgot about it for not quite three weeks and opened up the disaster last night—mold had hit the walls, keg, tubes and, sadly, the regulator.

I searched on here and got some good tips, bleach wipe'd the crap out of it, but I’m not sure what to do about the black and white fittings for the keg (you know, that the tubes run out of) or if I'm going to have issues with mold in the regulator (it was on top of, but not inside any of the gas lines).

I’m going to part with the beer tube, it had mold in it. The gas lines look clean inside but I’m going to clean them anyway. I don’t know how to clean the black and white fittings. Soak in a bleach solution? Just replace? No idea.

Thanks!

 

[pernox]

Take them apart, soak them in bleach, rinse the bejeezus out of 'em, and you're good to go.

That's what I'd do, anyway.

 

[PartyBible]

10% solution of bleach and wipe it down.

 

[ksbrain]

It's easy to take apart the QD (black and white) fittings. Put a flat head screwdriver in that notch on the top and unscrew, and watch it all come apart.

I wonder if the regulator can be saved...