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Hi!
After a break of a few years I've recently got back into brewing. I've also moved from using bottles to kegs and have finished drinking my first corny of Wherry. I had the keg sat in a spare cupboard at ambient temperature, dispensing using a party tap with the tap remaining connected for the 7 weeks or so it took to finish. When cleaning everything out I noticed the inside of the party tap looked dirty; on removing the valve cap and lever I found some brown mould had built up around the outlet side of the white valve seat. It all cleaned out easily enough but the white valve seat has turned brown. This raises a couple of questions:
Can I use the discoloured valve parts, or could they promote the same thing happening again or otherwise spoil my beer? I tried soaking in some stellarclean PBW for an hour but didn't seem to shift it. Given the cost, I might replace the tap anyway but was curious.
What have I done wrong to cause this in the first place? In hindsight I can see that a small amount of beer would have remained in the outlet of the tap, which would have gone off and probably caused the nastiness. Could I have rinsed that out somehow? Or should I have removed the tap and line periodically and flushed through?
Thanks!
After a break of a few years I've recently got back into brewing. I've also moved from using bottles to kegs and have finished drinking my first corny of Wherry. I had the keg sat in a spare cupboard at ambient temperature, dispensing using a party tap with the tap remaining connected for the 7 weeks or so it took to finish. When cleaning everything out I noticed the inside of the party tap looked dirty; on removing the valve cap and lever I found some brown mould had built up around the outlet side of the white valve seat. It all cleaned out easily enough but the white valve seat has turned brown. This raises a couple of questions:
Can I use the discoloured valve parts, or could they promote the same thing happening again or otherwise spoil my beer? I tried soaking in some stellarclean PBW for an hour but didn't seem to shift it. Given the cost, I might replace the tap anyway but was curious.
What have I done wrong to cause this in the first place? In hindsight I can see that a small amount of beer would have remained in the outlet of the tap, which would have gone off and probably caused the nastiness. Could I have rinsed that out somehow? Or should I have removed the tap and line periodically and flushed through?
Thanks!
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