How To Clean A Corny Keg That Has Syrup In It
- #1
What is the simplest way to clean a corny keg? I've heard that I demand line cleaner and a special socket to disassemble the posts. Can I get away without those things? I have oxiclean. I see the hex shape effectually the base of the posts. Would something undesirable happen if I just turned that with any old wrench? Someone gave me this keg and I don't know when information technology was last used so I'd like to clean it thoroughly.
Also, slightly unrelated, I'm new to kegging. But bought a new regulator. Its seems pretty straightforward. I played around with it with h2o. Correct me if I'm incorrect... to ready a pressure you only plow the dial on forepart clockwise until its at the desired force per unit area. Then if you lot want to reduce pressure level you turn it all the way back counterclockwise, pull the tab on top of the keg to release all the pressure, then turn the punch on the regulator clockwise until you striking the new pressure. Tell me if I'm misunderstanding this. Or if you'd rather straight me to a good commodity or something. Just thought I'd inquire instead of excavation through tons of information.
- #ii
Outset, regulator and h2o? I should remember you'd want to keep that thing dry. Or maybe yous mean water in a keg I hope?
Some detach all the keg's bits every time. I do non. I rinse a keg, fill with a gal water & scoop bootleg pbw chapeau back on and shake every 5m for 20min. Hook up liquid out and gas in and menstruation cleaner out through liquid out until it's full of cleaner and let it sit during the 20m. The O2 only lasts twenty-30m in oxy. I usually do not have to scrub annihilation so your milage may vary. Then accident all cleaner out using CO2 through liquid out, rinse 3 times blowing water through liquid out, then star san, blowing out through liquid out. That mode I accept cleaned sanitized keg and line. Every iii-4 fills I will take apart the posts to keg lube all gaskets and inspect poppets and such.
This will be one of those questions where if you equally 12 people you will get 147 dissimilar answers.
- #three
Cleaning corny kegs is a pain. The simplest style is to make full halfway with PBW and the hottest water yous can become. Put on lid and hit with a few PSI to seal. Invert. Give information technology ten minutes. Invert it back. Give information technology another 10 infinitesimal soak. Then give it a milk shake. I and so push the liquid all out with CO2, rinse with hot h2o, then rinse with cool water. Invert to dry.
There are a number of keg cleaners you tin buy or DIY also to help automate.
- #4
^ +i On this...Only Difference is I use OxyClean Free. If I experience especially lazy I've been known to leave a keg soaking for a few days before I become back to cleaning the Oxy out.
- #5
+one on flipping the keg upside down. One-half the cleaner, twice the job. I just disassemble the whole keg and I do the invert part in an onetime fermentation bucket. It gives a very thorough cleaning. For long keg parts, racking canes, plastic paddles, hoses etc I utilise a wall paper tray with Oxy or PBW to soak. The long narrow tray will use less h2o and cleaner for the job on those long parts
- #6
I bought a submersible pump like this i and bought some PVC pipage, tubing and dedicated gas and liquid ball lock connectors. I hook up the keg to the posts, have a pipe going through the opening, fill a bucket nearly i/2 total with PBW or Oxi-clean free with hot water. I run the pump for most ten minutes. Then I motility it over to some other bucket with clean hot water and repeat. Almost in one case a year or then I have the whole keg apart and clean all of the poppets and lube the gaskets.
Here is a link to what it looks similar. I promise this gives y'all an idea. Besides, it works dandy to clean fermenters besides. I have shorter pipage for the middle if I need to clean my 2.5 gallon keg or smaller fermenters.
- #7
I simply brewed after a five year hiatus. I take ane keg that merely stinks! It woke upwards the business firm when I opened information technology and I'k not sure what I had in it. I cleaned it and saw hop leaves, simply the odour is horrendous. I cleaned both posts for 15 mins with Marks Keg Cleaner (https://world wide web.kegwasher.com/) with OxyClean (level 1 per gallon) and Iodophor (15 mins per post). That didn't work, so I did 1/ii loving cup bleach to one 1/2 gallons h2o in the keg cleaner (per mail service), but the smell nevertheless persists (about chemical odor now). Any recommendations earlier I throw the keg out?
- #viii
Did you replace all the rubber parts?
Bleach isn't skilful for stainless.
Hot sodium hydroxide will likely take care of it, only it's fairly strong stuff.
- #ix
I would supersede all the safe gaskets and let the keg soak and posts in hot OxyClean Free for nearly 24 hours. My guess is most of the scent is in the condom parts.
- #x
+i for the gaskets -- anything rubber. Information technology's why I accept a Root Beer keg that volition only agree ... wait for information technology ... root beer. The gaskets on chapeau, dip tubes, poppets, posts -- they volition all absorb and tightly agree aroma for E'er.
- Thread Starter
- #11
Nobody has touched on how to have the posts autonomously. Can I just use a channel lock wrench or is there a special socket I have to utilize? anything else I should know about taking it apart?
lump42
The Lajestic Vantrashell of Lob
- #12
You tin use aqueduct locks, I'd attempt an adjustable wrench first. Long term I find information technology easier to have the appropriate sockets, which depends if you take a ball lock or pin lock keg and whether they are 6 or 12 point.
Hither'southward a folio that has the size and options for both pivot lock and brawl lock sizes. Other than the pivot lock socket they aren't whatever unlike than any other socket. I fabricated my own pin lock socket by taking a cheap (~$iv) xiii/16" spark plug socket and cut the notches with a dremel and files.
https://world wide web.kegconnection.com/keg-sockets-choose-your-sockets/
- #xiii
I employ a combination of sockets, open finish and box wrenches as I take original brawl lock, converted pin to brawl lock, and rebuilt (replaced posts) kegs (13 kegs) and darned if the posts aren't all kinds and style of different sizes. I favor the box wrenches. Can't tell ya why. One of those weird character flaw things, like disliking blackness patent malt and lima beans. Especially together.
To your question however, this video is very nice.
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- #14
In my mind, it is best to get the correct deep sockets and use a socket wrench. If yous ever get pin locks, it is easy enough to modify the socket for the pins, or yous tin can but buy one already modified.
If the posts take been overtorqued, it can be really difficult to remove them. I sometimes have to put information technology on the basis and utilise the keg itself to increase the mechanical advantage, or even a rubber mallet.
Definitely change out the consumables to get it out of the way, there are rubber o-rings for the hat, the dip tubes, and the posts, forth with the poppets. I have personally been transitioning to the universal poppets, and I am exceedingly happy with them, plus they use a small standard o-ring, so it is cheap and easy enough to continue that in bulk if needed subsequently on. If there is likewise a manual force per unit area relief valve (pull tab is easiest mode to know if you accept one), then you can as well supervene upon that to exist sure. One time you lot do that, everything else is stainless and a soak in cleaner volition take care of that, along with a scrub with bar keeper'south friend for anything really stuck at that place.
My general cleaning routine for kegs is to rinse out the keg of all visible debri, and blow out the dip tubes with water as well - I built a manifold that connects to a gas disconnect and a beer disconnect for this specific purpose. After information technology is visually clear, I then completely fill up it with the hottest h2o from the faucet, and so put in a scoop of oxiclean, attach the chapeau, and then depress the poppets to get the solution into the dip tubes. I let it soak for anywhere from 24-36 hours depending on when I am able to get back to it. I rinse out the oxiclean solution multiples times, blow out the dip tubes over again with clear h2o, then bleed and let it dry out for a few days, and then I pressurize with most 10 PSI for storage.
I like to go along them pressurized for storage then that when I get to use it after, if it doesn't have whatever pressure, I know to cheque for leaks and go to a different keg if I am in a hurry. I know that this tin can compress the o-rings over time, simply I keep all of them in bulk on hand, then it isn't a big effect for me to supersede them in the futurity if I need to.
4of7
60sqftbrewhouse
- #15
What is the simplest style to clean a corny keg? I've heard that I need line cleaner and a special socket to disassemble the posts. Can I go away without those things? I have oxiclean. I run across the hex shape effectually the base of the posts. Would something undesirable happen if I just turned that with any old wrench? Someone gave me this keg and I don't know when it was last used so I'd like to make clean it thoroughly.
Likewise, slightly unrelated, I'k new to kegging. Just bought a new regulator. Its seems pretty straightforward. I played around with it with water. Correct me if I'm wrong... to set a pressure yous simply turn the dial on front clockwise until its at the desired pressure. Then if you desire to reduce pressure you plough information technology all the way back counterclockwise, pull the tab on height of the keg to release all the pressure, and so plow the dial on the regulator clockwise until you hit the new pressure. Tell me if I'm misunderstanding this. Or if you'd rather direct me to a proficient article or something. But thought I'd inquire instead of digging through tons of information.
keg cleaning with pump,,oxy,,starsan..
- #sixteen
My cleaning sounds archaic. I use a picayune dawn and a carboy brush at first. Rinse a few times. The add some pbw and water and shake for nigh a minute or so. Rinse. The add together nigh a gallon of star san solution, seal with a piddling co2 and store.
- #17
inside visible is easy merely be wary of the dip tube interior -- i'd recommend pulling one ever so oft and seeing what comes out. iirc 45 quotient cleaning rod worked well on mine.
it's not a special socket, y'all just need a deep well.
4of7
60sqftbrewhouse
- #18
Endeavour not to use aqueduct locks, observe the right socket or wrench
- #19
A 22mm combination wrench is my preferred tool. I'thou really into quality tools, but I accept been using a cheap Chinese ane that is fine for this application. Definitely don't employ channel locks. You might as well beat it off with a large rock!
- #20
It is and then hard to go ALL of the Dawn out. I've been able to tell when I've tasted and looked at other brewers beer that they employ dish lather somewhere in the process.... and they say 'I've been using dish lather for x number of years and never had a problem' and I just remember.....yeah, yous are just used to it.
- #21
Wow. Based on the above my kegs are nasty gross. All I do is give them a good rinse with hot water, if they're gunky inside might add together some oxyclean and allow them soak an hour or so. Rinse with hot water, then cold, and so starsan rinse and fill. Once a year is when they get completely taken apart and new o-rings added (if needed) and divide parts soaked.
4of7
60sqftbrewhouse
- #22
That is what i did for a long time ,now i just add the pump and run it 10 mins for each step..it is not the inside keg i also want the brawl lock and tubes...i also can back affluent these
- #23
Humid hot water is a cheap sanitiser.
Does your tap lines too when yous apply gas to empty it out of your keg.
4of7
60sqftbrewhouse
- #24
this is the gas side on my keg ,see the smashing...bang-up is gas connect ..the little guy is the poppet..gas is groovy greyness...use the right size wrench to pause free off keg then hand loosen...when done cleaning lube the black parts orings..put the poppet in and fun role hither..slowly mitt tighten to set it. ,the wrench tight ,hitting wit pressure spray starsan and check for bubbles,,no bubbles your good
- #25
Hither'southward another of the 147. If it's a new keg, probably just a good soak in some cleaner, running it through the dip tube assembly, and so the same in your choice of sanitizer is plenty. I got near of my kegs well-used, so everything came off and got a good soak and scrub in PBW. Also, all gaskets on posts, poppets, etc. got replaced. Once you've been through the keg and cleaned it well, information technology can probably go with a rinse and sanitizer betwixt fills (and through dip tube), unless your using sour and/or Brett bugs. I will go through and actually scrub a keg out once a twelvemonth or and then if it's in constant apply. If storing a keg empty for a while, I clean information technology with PBW, rinse with Starsan, and pressure to three or four PSI. The key with keg maintenance is not to allow them sit down around at room temperature muddied; clean the keg shortly after it goes dry.
- #26
I'm talking a few drops and a very thorough rinse. I'k highly sensitive to whatever off flavors/smells in my beer, and then I'd like to say I'd selection up on dish soap. Maybe non? Never had anyone complain. Only yeah, I'll most likely switch to just pbw and call it a day.
- #27
Always effort one of those "Natures" dish soaps? No olfactory property...
- #28
Using your logic we could just utilize one of those soaps that smell like beer.
Its not only about scent.....information technology is (tin can be) biting, kill head retention, change mouthfeel, and/or exit an aftertaste. Fifty-fifty all natural aroma costless soaps don't gustatory modality practiced 
Absolutely a few drops isn't going to do much harm afterward thorough rinsing. With the amount of rinsing necessary to ensure at that place isn't whatever left wastes more water than only using something else that works as well or better.
- #29
I had simply this event this last weekend. I'd always heard that the oxygenation/peroxide effectiveness of PBW lasted 20m or then. Well, yesterday was the starting time time I experienced the cleaning difference of brand new, vs 30-xl min old, homemade PBW (hpbw). I had several kegs, up to a month emptied but then gear up bated. I threw a scoop hpbw in ane with warm water, and over the next 30-40m I allow it sit, picking it upwards and shaking it most every iv-5m. Always worked in the past. Then I thought I'd exist clever and push it through liquid out to the liquid in of the next 1, to clean the dip tubes. Then for 30m I shook the 2d keg. Well, when I opened the first to rinse, it was clean as usual, while the second ane still had that thin layer of sediment stubbornly affixed to the bottom. Same beer styles, same ages in kegs, aforementioned empty engagement. 5m afterward adding a couple Tblsp fresh hpbw to the second one, and a single shake, it had removed all the layer of gunk. The O2 affair is real.
- #thirty
I try and rinse the keg as presently as possible later it is finished, certainly the same week. I remove the hat, upend it and put my garden spray hose in at that place for a minute or so. I inspect information technology to ensure it looks clean, chuck in a litre of PAA, seal information technology up, shake it a couple of times and store information technology. When I desire to use them I bleed it, check information technology, put in 3L of boiling water, seal information technology upwardly, rock, roll, milkshake, whatever it every now and then while getting ready to fill, upend it to drain, chuck in a litre of PAA, seal it up, shake it a couple of times, connect up the gas, push button the PAA out the beer side, bleed the keg, gas to 5psi, drain the keg, repeat a couple of times to purge and then fill. Occasionally I remove the posts, PRV and clean, inspect and supplant what I demand to. Occasionally I use 2% chlorinated caustic, few litres, milk shake, wait, milk shake, await, repeat for a while though this is only if on inspection they aren't clean, smooth, shiny and then on. The boiling water thing is pretty lethal and I occasionally feel stupid doing it. The chlorinated caustic isn't something you'd want to exit in there.
- #31
^^^This! I believe Brew Hardware has a fix available
- #32
become one of these. dude sells them for $13 and ships for another few bucks. i hang information technology on my regulator and am never looking for wrenches or sockets or whatnot. i wish the flathead screwdriver part was on the other side to brand opening upwardly your QDs a bit easier (the big ring tends to hit your tubing) but other than that its coin well spent.
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- #33
Absolutely one of the handiest tools I have in my brewery!
I apply it for liquid/gas disconnects, removing posts, etc
I proceed the sockets and ratchet handy for those stubborn posts.
- #34
Everybody has their own cleaning procedure, here's mine: When a keg kicks, I open it, rinse out the trub, make full it half manner with water and add together starsan concentrate. Shut and classy. Drain and rinse with clean water. Pressurize and place in storage until I'm ready to utilise.
On mash day, I'll remove the keg posts with a deep well socket ( I accept ball lock kegs) and place them in a dishpan of starsan utilise for that purpose alone. I'll rinse the keg again with starsan. I run a dip tube castor through the dip tubes, apply keg lube to all the rubber seals and reassemble, ensuring all the poppets and springs are in place ( A missing spring won't be found until you become to tap the keg: ask me how I know this). I reassemble, make full, pressurize, tag and place into storage until there'southward a conditioning slot available in the kegerator. Once I have also cleaned the beer lines by taking a half full keg of starsan from my rinsing operation and running it through the tap utill the "beer" in the lines turns articulate.
You should take on hand:
spare o rings including those for the poppets, post bases, dip tubes and lid.
As well, several spare poppet springs.
- #35
My procedure includes rinsing out with hot h2o then filling with hot h2o and B-Brite. I permit it soak for an hour minimum so half empty (to lighten) and pressurize. I the flush fluid side using a picnic tap. Next I rinse thoroughly and do aStarSan rinse using same process. Empty, lube o rings and store wit no pressure. It weakens the poppet springs.
I detach ball valves as needed.
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