Cornelius Keg Cleaning ideas

[mickpick]

If anyone's stuck for ways to clean out the liquid-in tubes on corny kegs I can recommend camelbak cleaning kits like this:

http://bildr.no/view/1293444

The diameter of the pull-through brush is just about right!

 

[Mark1964]

if you use oxy clean and boiling water theres no need for pull throughs etc. Just add the boiling water to a large spoon of oxy then fasten corny lid and shake. Pressure builds in the keg. Then its just a matter of covering the out post with a cloth and pressing the pin lock valve so that the oxy travels up and out the dip tube. :thumb:

 

[theboytony]

If anyone's stuck for ways to clean out the liquid-in tubes on corny kegs I can recommend camelbak cleaning kits like this:

http://bildr.no/view/1293444

The diameter of the pull-through brush is just about right!

Nice idea ta, might have to invest in one of those

 

[puravida]

Then its just a matter of covering the out post with a cloth and pressing the pin lock valve so that the oxy travels up and out the dip tube. :thumb:

Or forgetting the cloth and squirting yourself in the face with boiling hot oxi-clean. :?
Doh!

 

[Mark1964]

yep dont forget the cloth it can be painful

 

[Hawks]

Or connect your tap up and clean tap and lines at the same time.... :thumb:

 

[Rich747]

Or connect your tap up and clean tap and lines at the same time.... :thumb:

+1

I run about a pint of of oxy through the beer tap then open up the cornie, put a splash of diluted starsan in, give it a shake then run the liquid out through the tap beer tap on my kegerator.
Voila, sanitised cornie (ready for the beer) and pipes.

 

[Fil]

if you dont want to use gas for cleaning a 5l or bigger garden pump spray bottle can be used to pump cleaner, then rinse and then steriliser into the gas in post.

 

[mickpick]

if you use oxy clean and boiling water theres no need for pull throughs etc. Just add the boiling water to a large spoon of oxy then fasten corny lid and shake. Pressure builds in the keg. Then its just a matter of covering the out post with a cloth and pressing the pin lock valve so that the oxy travels up and out the dip tube. :thumb:

I'll give that a go, having bought a keg off eBay I didn't really feel satisfied until I got a brush to it.

 

[fbsf]

I run about a pint of of oxy through the beer tap

What Oxy do you use? I tried Poundstretcher's oxy cleaner on some bottles and it wrecked them by leaving a nasty deposit on them I couldn't remove no matter what I tried...