Pressure barrel cleaning

[Flan]

How do you all clean your pressure barrels. I plan on using it as a bottling barrel for my next brew as it’s the only one i have with a tap on at the moment and i want to batch prime, but with such a small opening at the top I’ve found it a nightmare to clean. At the moment I’ve put about 5 litres of hot water in with some washing up liquid and swilled it around for 5 minutes and managed to reach where i can with a wash wand thing but can’t be 100% sure I’ve managed to reach everywhere properly.

 

[Clint]

Get some oxi type cleaner and hot water that'll fix it.

 

[Flan]

Get some oxi type cleaner and hot water that'll fix it.

Thanks clint i think i have some of that oxi clean stuff somewhere.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

+1 for what @Clint said. What I always do with mine.

 

[The Cat]

Just did mine and my plastic fermenters with Chemclean and water. Have oxi as well not used it yet.

 

[Clint]

Chemsan as in no rinse?
If so be aware you can't sanitise muck! It's best used after a cleaning product.

 

[The Cat]

Chemsan as in no rinse?
If so be aware you can't sanitise muck! It's best used after a cleaning product.

Cheers Clint was a typo I use Chemclean to clean the muck away

 

[CD]

Simple. Fill the Pressure Barrel up with water plus 150cc Antiformin. Leave for12 hours or more, give it a good rinse, job done. If you collect the Antiformin solution in a suitable open topped vessel, like a plastic fermentor, you can submerge your bottles in it. It isn’t a no-rinse cleaner, but it will shift dried-on yeast and steralise.

P.S. Washing-up liquid has no place in a home brewery.

 

[BridgeBrew]

VWP, or Chempro as it was back in the day. Cleans, and sanatise in one go, but rinse well. Never had any problems.