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[...]I thought about getting one of those manifolds but instead got a couple beer line jumpers. Works great, daisy chain the beer lines and tap faucet ends. One in, one out, all cleaned at once.
I have done five taps and didn't gave an issue. I use a hand sprayer with a keg post end. Fill it with mixed beer line cleaner, pump it through then followed by clear water.Try daisy-chaining six faucets and see what the flow rate is like. Bt/dt, it was pathetic.
I have a purpose built manifold instead from chicompany.net that works great, plenty of flow with my 6 taps in parallel...
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From Bobby, Brew hardware, QD jumper. I use two for five beer taps, one works with three taps.Never heard of a beer line jumper. Gotta check it out, I have a 4 out manifold and six taps... So I was planning on ... Duplicating two lines each cleaning (i.e 1-4, followed by 3-6) but with a jumper, could I do six at once?
I have done five taps and didn't gave an issue. I use a hand sprayer with a keg post end. Fill it with mixed beer line cleaner, pump it through then followed by clear water.
The last tap spout goes into a bucket. I dump that down the taps drip tray and drain.
A hand pump or a pressurized keg have a lot more pressure than the usual home brew pumps. Bicycle pumps can pump up road bike tires to 90+ psi as an example. It can be fine to use the hand sprayer pump and let it sit but you'll get better cleaning from recirculating. I do use the hand sprayer on my kegerator taps since my brewery pumps are mounted and in a different room. I am more concerned however with my jockey box coils since they don't always get flushed immediately when I get back from a trip. So I like to recirculate PBW to keep them clean, then sometimes BLC.From Bobby, Brew hardware, QD jumper. I use two for five beer taps, one works with three taps.
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That's a good point and I have been thinking of building something to recirculation cleaner through the lines.A hand pump or a pressurized keg have a lot more pressure than the usual home brew pumps. Bicycle pumps can pump up road bike tires to 90+ psi as an example. It can be fine to use the hand sprayer pump and let it sit but you'll get better cleaning from recirculating. I do use the hand sprayer on my kegerator taps since my brewery pumps are mounted and in a different room. I am more concerned however with my jockey box coils since they don't always get flushed immediately when I get back from a trip. So I like to recirculate PBW to keep them clean, then sometimes BLC.
I've always been leery of coils since you can't see inside them and I have been pretty strict about cleaning them. So on my jockey box I've been doing recirculation with PBW first and then sometimes I will do the BLC. That's why the time is important and I wanted to do them all at once. But I just use BLC on my kegerator lines. They are short and I can see inside up to where they go into the tower. I'm not sure just PBW will work on its own for draft systems. PBW is alkaline but BLC is an acid. I think you need the acid for the draft side for some things. A lot of the information available for draft systems is geared towards commercial operations too, higher volumes than homebrewing, makes it a little difficult to know what might be the best intervals and methods for us.That's a good point and I have been thinking of building something to recirculation cleaner through the lines.
Do you find using PBW works better for cleaning rather than just BLC?
Wow, am I dumb! I thought that BLC was basic. Or are there both acidic and basic versions?PBW is alkaline but BLC is an acid.
Wow, am I dumb! I thought that BLC was basic. Or are there both acidic and basic versions?
My dumb mistake! I think I framed my query wrong by asking if they were acids. It looks like beer line cleaners can be acids or bases, but BLC (National Chemicals) is basic.I've used BLC and LLC and for sure the Five Star version is a caustic cleaner. Ie, hella basic
The National Chemicals Incorporated BLC is mostly Potassium Hydroxide with an alkaline pH so also definitely caustic, not acidic...
https://rapidswholesale.com/catalogpdfs/SDS/BLC1-2021.pdf
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@MaxStout and @elproducto inspired me to go book shopping, and BA has Mosher’s book 50% off. View attachment 861185
@day_trippr - ha.... The irony of your post ... Wobbly glass... coming right after a member called wigglebutt brewery . HahahaOne of the two new tulips direct from Boulevard Brewing had a deformed base that caused a wobble, shown here:
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The folks are Boulevard kindly sent a replacement and allowed me to keep the mutant.
Also, I had bought ebay three mint Boulevard logo'd glasses from an older series which also showed up today.
I think they are understatedly handsome as well
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I have another couple of ebay buys of even older Boulevard series glasses that should arrive in the next few days. I'm trying to acquire at least one mint example of every tulip series they've sold...
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