Cleaning My Beer Lines

[ajdelange]

The caustic products (BLC, Micromatic's alkali cleaner etc.) take care of half the job - i.e. get protein, old yeast cells etc. loosened up and out of the lines. The other half is beer stone. This is attacked with a mix of nitric and phosphoric or just phosphoric acids (e.g. Micromatic Acid Line Cleaner). This does not have to be used each time caustic is used - perhaps every third or fourth time.

[SaintTaris]

I would not add bleach to a keg. Bleach will eventually cause pitting in your kegs.

I use BLC like others have posted.

[beerhog]

i simply use the pbw/starsan combo when i clean my lines out. i have been amazed at some of the shit has come out of a tap i thought was still clean before.

[BDawg]

I believe in mixing it up. Sometimes, I'd use BLC. Other times, I'd pump PBW and Starsan/Saniclean. Still others, I'd use all 3, since they complement each other (StarSan is acidic, BLC and PBW are alkaline).

[Shattheproducer]

http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer-edu/beer-line-cleaning-cid-2628.html

If you guys have come across http://www.beerwestmag.com/ there is a great article about line cleaning and the associated problems if not cleaned regularly and properly.

Another reference. http://www.draughtquality.org/w/page/18182201/FrontPage

[jwatkins56550]

Nice links.