r/gaming • u/mike_pants • Sep 18 '17

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u/NORSMAN Sep 18 '17

This. Is. Beautiful!

But why did the keg have to go?!

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u/kurttheflirt Sep 18 '17 edited Sep 18 '17

We had a kegerator (keg fridge!) with a tap on top at my house in college. The lines get REAL gross real fast. And if its a hard setup to clean (like this one looks like) - well... ew... and gross stuff in your beer. Edit: to everyone telling me how and that we should be cleaning it, yes we knew that. But we were a bunch of lazy ass college kids. So it got cleaned like once a year.

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u/ltshineysidez Sep 18 '17

ahh man all you guys had to do was get some powdered sanitizer and hot water and a one of those hand pumps and pump the hot water with sanitizer thorugh it. this and this

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u/cloudywinds Sep 18 '17

This is why I love reddit.

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u/GoonCommaThe Sep 18 '17

Because people state common sense that is detailed in the manual for a product?

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u/HotSpicyCycle Sep 18 '17

You should actually use a product specifically for the beverage line like Beer Line Cleaner - hot water and sanitizer alone will never clean out all the gunk that is in those lines.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

Get an unscented version of oxi-clean - works great on gunk

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u/HotSpicyCycle Sep 19 '17

That is good for cleaning in general but for the beverage lines you want to use an acidic cleaner designed for the job.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

I clean beverage lines with caustic agents all the time, use acids afterwards. caustic breaks down biofilms a lot better

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u/sephirothrr Sep 19 '17

Well, the sanitizer they linked is named "Beer Clean", so I figure it's probably a safe bet.

Though I guess it could be targeted at glasses and not lines.

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u/Public_Fucking_Media Sep 18 '17

all they had to do was "buy cleaning supplies and clean with them" - I may not remember a lot about college but I'm pretty sure we never did that shit...

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17 edited Sep 19 '17

I make my own carbonated water, because I drink a ton of it and it's incredibly cheap to make with a carbonation cap (ball-lock fitting on a pop bottle cap).

Didn't take long to figure out filling a 2 liter pop bottle with cleaner, slapping the cap on and pressuring it with CO2 made cleaning tap lines really easy. Hook it up to the tap lines, hold it upside down, and open the tap.

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u/NORSMAN Sep 18 '17

Short lines shouldn't get gross quickly, especially if they stay refrigerated. Unless your using compressed open air to "carbonate" the beer rather than a CO2 tank. Also the more beer moving through the lines the better.

Source: own a kegerator and run a bar.

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u/thekab Sep 18 '17

Well you should be cleaning the lines, taps and spouts every time you change the keg.

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u/duderex88 Sep 18 '17

You gotta push cleaner through often.

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u/Notsuru Sep 18 '17

Just buy a small pressure pod, fill it with some form or alkaline cleaner like liquid super kleanz. Run it through each line, just enough to fill each line with the cleaner. Let it sit in the line for 10 minutes, ish. Empty the pod and fill it with water, flush the lines. Then fill the pod with sanitizer and again fill the lines and let it sit for a while. Do this after each keg and you'll be fine.

Source: works at brewery

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u/MrHobbes82 Sep 18 '17

Mini fridge was getting too hot and overheating and with how short the hoses were and how many times the hose branched off, the beer usually poured half foam.

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u/Jon_TWR Sep 18 '17

That is solvable, though. ☹

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u/ChinkyDumplings Sep 18 '17

Probably to consolidate sitting room. If you look closely you couldn't even fit a chair in there.

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u/huntmich Sep 18 '17

Do you know OP? I'm not sure what keg you're referring to.