How To Open And Clean A Keg

Cleaning Your Kegs-Procedure:

Cleaning your kegs is easy. When your used kegs arrive, they will probably have soda residue or concentrate still within. Drain and scrub the within of the tank, don't worry almost scratching it. Add together a gallon of hot water (100-160°F or 38-71°C) with 2 oz of PBW, (Powdered Brewer's Wash) or equivalent cleaner (see characterization for amounts and procedures).

PBW is an environmentally friendly, biodegradeable brine wash that volition not harm your septic organization, rubber gaskets, soft metals, or your peel. PBW can effectively clean items that can't be reached with a brush or sponge, and is potent plenty to remove thick, difficult, caked-on organic soils. Seal the keg and shake vigorously. Allow the keg to set for at least an hour, but preferably overnight. Then drain and rinse the keg. Repeat the process, this time turn the keg upside down to clean all the top parts including the gas in line. Drain over again and salve some of the cleaning solution.

Using a 7/viii″ ratcheting wrench or box cease wrench, disconnect the keg posts from the peak of the keg (information technology may require a unlike size wrench for various manufacturers of keg posts). Push out the poppet valves and driblet these into the hot cleaning solution to soak (I endeavor to go on the poppets and keg posts together). Use an one-time toothbrush to scrub the within and outside of the plugs and poppet valves. Pull the gas and beer tubes out of the keg and scrub with hot cleaner. They make special brushes to make clean the within of the long beer tube.

Remove and replace the o-rings on plugs and tubes (if needed). Clean the keg lid and supervene upon the large o-ring as well. Rinse everything in hot h2o several times then put it all back together adding a fiddling silicone to the o-rings. Pay attention to where the tubes and keg postsbecome, the short tube ever goes below the "IN" post, which should accept notches on the base.

Subsequently the keg is clean, pour a gallon of clean water into the keg and add a no-rinse sanitizer such every bit StarSan. Shake the sanitizer effectually making certain to cover the entire inside surface. Expect for iii-five minutes for the sanitizer to work. Place the gas quick connect from the CO2 regulator onto the gas "IN" side of the keg. Place a picnic tap with quick connect onto the "OUT" post. Turn on the CO2 to about 5 psi, open the picnic tap and manipulate the sanitizer into a bucket or another keg. I ordinarily run information technology for 20-thirty seconds to sanitize the inside of the beer tube and post.

The outside of the used kegs will be dirty, dented and sometimes total of stickers. Clean them as necessary. After cleaning your kegs, try numbering the kegs and keeping a log of when the o-rings were changed, when the keg was cleaned and sanitized, etc. It'south easy to forget how long the o-rings accept been in service otherwise. The kegs are at present ready to exist filled with beer. Some homebrewers store them with sanitizer inside and under force per unit area to keep the lid sealed tightly.

Keg and beer-line cleaning kits are nice, but I experience they are unnecessary. I add together a gallon of hot cleaning solution (One-Step or PBW) to the keg and claw upwards the beer lines from the tower or taps. Connect the CO2 quick connect and so run the cleaning solution through the beer lines on your kegerator as if you were serving beer. I then dump the cleaner, add sanitizer to the keg and run the sanitizer through the lines (Skip this stride if using One-Step as your cleaner). Hook CO2 to the gas "IN" side of the keg. Place a picnic tap with quick connect onto the
"OUT" mail. Turn on the CO2 to well-nigh five psi, open up the picnic tap and dispense the sanitizer into a bucket or another keg. I usually run information technology for 20-xxx seconds to sanitize the inside of the beer line tubing and posts.

Cleaning your kegs shouldn't be such a chore. After you exercise it a few times y'all will go the process downwards and have any jumper lines made upwards if needed. I very important thing to remember is to heat up the PBW, information technology works much better.

Mark's Marker Two Keg Washer™ is designed to clean and sanitize large vessels like cornelius kegs and carboys. This keg cleaner is also intended to provide a sanitation container for miscellaneous items such as airlocks, thermometers, tubing, keg fittings, and more.

Quiet, Fun, & Easy to Apply

Very quiet when in use and most chiefly speeds upward the process of cleaning and sanitizing.
Calorie-free in weight. Easy to store.

Cleans Kegs

This keg washer cleans and sanitizes a cornelius keg without having to have apart the ball lock fittings, poppets, and dip tubes. You can make clean the keg and the dip tube simultaneously using the T adapter.

Cleans Tubing Likewise

Cleans tube separately utilizing the pump with the additional barb fittings included.

Cleans Parts

Reservoir holds one.25 gallons of water making it easy to fill and empty with sanitizer.
Saves h2o and sanitizer.

The keg washer does non have an on/off switch, you can plug it directly into a wall outlet to operate the pump or plug it into an outlet that is controlled past a switch. Never leave the keg washer unattended when in utilise.

When in employ, fill the keg washer up to about one inch under the skirt. The pump is not self priming, so always brand sure the basin is total of h2o earlier plugging in the pump.

Owner's Manual is included. Delight read thoroughly earlier using. Dimensions of the inside of the washer'due south reservoir are: half-dozen″L x 12″W ten iv″D.

Please Notation:Production does not include the bucket, carboy, or keg pictured in a higher place for display purposes.

The pump specs are: