Hi All,
I've been reading quite a bit on ball valve cleaning and I took mine apart to find quite a bit a junk in them. One valve was so bad it was basically not salvageable and I was also finding that there was gunk getting up into the handle/stem portion of the valve. Normally I just pump hot PBW through my system after brewing but that hasn't seemed to prevent the buildup. I'm looking at changing out to an "easy" clean style of ball valve like this or this. Or potentially the Blichmann linear flow valves as they look pretty simple to clean. Does anyone have experience with the Blichmann valves and/or the ez clean style of ball valves and prefer one of the other? Any downsides I'm not thinking of? Or other solutions I should be considering?
My system is SS brewtech kettles and the SS brewtech mashtun.
Thanks
I've been reading quite a bit on ball valve cleaning and I took mine apart to find quite a bit a junk in them. One valve was so bad it was basically not salvageable and I was also finding that there was gunk getting up into the handle/stem portion of the valve. Normally I just pump hot PBW through my system after brewing but that hasn't seemed to prevent the buildup. I'm looking at changing out to an "easy" clean style of ball valve like this or this. Or potentially the Blichmann linear flow valves as they look pretty simple to clean. Does anyone have experience with the Blichmann valves and/or the ez clean style of ball valves and prefer one of the other? Any downsides I'm not thinking of? Or other solutions I should be considering?
My system is SS brewtech kettles and the SS brewtech mashtun.
Thanks
