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    Question:

    When Keg washing, should one use a limited amount of fluid volume as is recommended for CIP of a tank, so there isn't a pool of water in the top of an upside-down keg??

    Reason I ask is that the outflow in my system doesn't keep up to the inflow, so the kegs fill up until the inflow is shut off.

    Thx.

    -J.
    Jeremy Reed
    Co-Founder and President, assistant brewer, amateur electrician, plumber, welder, refrigeration tech, and intermediately swell fella
    The North of 48 Brewing Company
    Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

    www.no48.ca

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    You find any solutions?

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      Blow out residues using compressed air after each cycle. You may need to shorten each cycle say 30 seconds a delivery burst, and then repeat them - which is in effect what the big commercial keg lines do.
      dick

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      • #4
        We just edited our liquid cycles caustic/water/acid to intermittent bursting.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by timshore View Post
          You find any solutions?

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          Last run of kegs I cleaned I did what dick said to do, and it worked well.

          Im guessing that someone has done some real science re: how long acid/caustic must cascade down the inside walls of the kegs to be clean..... but what I'm doing is using common sense. Whether it's a pH 1.1 or pH 13.9 solution, their is no bug that's gonna survive that. Blow that out, rinse it with water, blow that out, sanitize it, snd purge it with CO2, and your done.

          I've opened a couple kegs after doing this, and they are spotless. They started as used old kegs and look great inside.

          Wash on my friends. Wash on.
          Jeremy Reed
          Co-Founder and President, assistant brewer, amateur electrician, plumber, welder, refrigeration tech, and intermediately swell fella
          The North of 48 Brewing Company
          Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

          www.no48.ca

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            Originally posted by timshore View Post
            You find any solutions?

            Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk
            Last run of kegs I cleaned I did what dick said to do, and it worked well.

            Im guessing that someone has done some real science re: how long acid/caustic must cascade down the inside walls of the kegs to be clean..... but what I'm doing is using common sense. Whether it's a pH 1.1 or pH 13.9 solution, their is no bug that's gonna survive that. Blow that out, rinse it with water, blow that out, sanitize it, snd purge it with CO2, and your done.

            I've opened a couple kegs after doing this, and they are spotless. They started as used old kegs and look great inside.

            Wash on my friends. Wash on.
            Jeremy Reed
            Co-Founder and President, assistant brewer, amateur electrician, plumber, welder, refrigeration tech, and intermediately swell fella
            The North of 48 Brewing Company
            Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

            www.no48.ca

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