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I'd be interested in hearing what you guys do for your sanitation and cleaning of the machine. Here's what we have come up with, but I'm not entirely satisfied with it:
Sanitize: Turn off the air pressure to the machine. Hook up the beer hose to our Mini-King keg washer, and use its sanitizer pump and reservoir to pump chlorine dioxide through the bottler with the fill tubes down in bottles so that the sanitizer has to flow out the off-gas tubing. Do that for about five minutes and then let it sit while we get ready to bottle.
Cleaning: Turn off air pressure to the machine. Run hot water through the bottler in the same way as sanitizing. Then take the acid wash that we used to clean the brite tank we just emptied, and pump it through the bottler in the same way. Finish with a water rinse and let the machine air dry with the tubes up.
What are your procedures? I don't use the Meheen sani and clean cycles because we blew out the tygon tubing from all the pressure our pumps put out, and we don't have a good way to regulate it.
I'd be interested in hearing what you guys do for your sanitation and cleaning of the machine. Here's what we have come up with, but I'm not entirely satisfied with it:
Sanitize: Turn off the air pressure to the machine. Hook up the beer hose to our Mini-King keg washer, and use its sanitizer pump and reservoir to pump chlorine dioxide through the bottler with the fill tubes down in bottles so that the sanitizer has to flow out the off-gas tubing. Do that for about five minutes and then let it sit while we get ready to bottle.
Cleaning: Turn off air pressure to the machine. Run hot water through the bottler in the same way as sanitizing. Then take the acid wash that we used to clean the brite tank we just emptied, and pump it through the bottler in the same way. Finish with a water rinse and let the machine air dry with the tubes up.
What are your procedures? I don't use the Meheen sani and clean cycles because we blew out the tygon tubing from all the pressure our pumps put out, and we don't have a good way to regulate it.
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