Beer Forum

I recently bought the Blichmann beer gun and it works pretty good (have some foaming issues on one of my beers for some reason). To anyone who owns one- how the heck are you getting, not only the gun itself clean, but also the 10ft of 3/16 tubing? I'd like to run cleaner and sanitizer though it after I'm done bottling but I don't have an extra keg to put the cleaner and sanitizer in to run through it. That tubing inner dimension is pretty small and its really tough to get liquid inside there. Am I missing something? Please help. Thanks.

If you don't have an extra keg to push starsan through the tube with you can fill a spray bottle with starsan and jam the end of the tube to the nozzle and push it in that way.

Sorry, man... but i really feel that you do need and extra keg for this to be sanitary and clean. I push iodophor through mine right before using. Just gives you another reason to buy another keg now.

keeping an empty keg around seems like such a waste of a perfectly good keg. anyone use something like this? don't see any reason why it wouldn't work..

http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-bee ... -1001.html

I don't really have an extra keg just sitting around, but rather try to time it with an open keg that is not full of beer to drink with my beer gun usage. Best of both worlds...although it takes a bit of planning and drinking sometimes.

Post bottling.....clean the corny you just emptied, to bottle.....and put some hot pbw/one step thru that corny. It takes a little extra time, but you're all set up to do it anyway!

70Shilling wrote:I recently bought the Blichmann beer gun: To anyone who owns one- how the heck are you getting, not only the gun itself clean, but also the 10ft of 3/16 tubing? I'd like to run cleaner and sanitizer though it after I'm done bottling but I don't have an extra keg to put the cleaner and sanitizer in to run through it. That tubing inner dimension is pretty small and its really tough to get liquid inside there. Am I missing something? Please help. Thanks.

I completely disassemble mine and soak everything in a bucket of hot water and PBW. Then hot-water rinse it all and soak it in a bucket with cool water and Starsan. The 10' hose gets coiled around the bucket and fills with the cleaning/sanitizing solutions. I rinse the 10' hose with hot water in between cleaning & sanitizing by hooking it up to my bottle/carboy washer on the sink faucet using a short piece of 3/8" ID hose.

Instead of using co2 to push liquid couldn't you just hook the gun up to a submersible pump and just hold the trigger open? Even dump the liquid right back the bucket with the pump and reuse the cleaner. If you really want to be lazy you could ziptie the trigger open and walk away.