Beer backed up into Secondary Regulator

Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:31 am

I have a 5-way secondary regulator in my kegerator. There was a leak somewhere in my system which leaked out all of my CO2. As a result, the beer in one of my kegs backed up through the entire secondary reg and into the tubing connecting my primary regulator and secondary regulator (although it didn't get to my primary).

I'm assuming this is a huge sanitization issue. Any ideas on how I can sanitize/clean out this tubing and regulator easily?
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Stevorino
 
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Re: Beer backed up into Secondary Regulator

Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:41 pm

the tubing take it and boil it or rinse the hell out if and soak it insomething like starsan or ioda4. the reg your going have to take apart and clean. check valves are a great deal when this happens. my first keg backed up in my dual primary setup when i was in vegas for a week. well it made a bear of cleanup in both bodies. then i put check valves on. these will still allow beer to back-flow in the line a ways if you get a little too excited shakin it but not the reg. example: http://www.williamsbrewing.com/BRASS_CHECK_VALVE_P2368.cfm?UserID=2972060&jsessionid=d830eb3651704f132844
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Re: Beer backed up into Secondary Regulator

Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:19 am

mordantly wrote:the tubing take it and boil it or rinse the hell out if and soak it insomething like starsan or ioda4. the reg your going have to take apart and clean. check valves are a great deal when this happens. my first keg backed up in my dual primary setup when i was in vegas for a week. well it made a bear of cleanup in both bodies. then i put check valves on. these will still allow beer to back-flow in the line a ways if you get a little too excited shakin it but not the reg. example: http://www.williamsbrewing.com/BRASS_CHECK_VALVE_P2368.cfm?UserID=2972060&jsessionid=d830eb3651704f132844


I'll definitely be ordering some of these -- this has not been a fun ordeal. Thanks for the link!
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