Beer line cleaner

[Mattyde05]

Hi guys wanted to know what you use for beer line cleaner ? I brought some ecoclenze form the malt Miller . But it’s gone hard and clumbs together even when using hot water . Also it’s rather expensive. Thanks

 

[simon12]

I use beer line cleaner you can get it from drinks wholesalers and cash and carries around £5 for 5L and you use it heavily diluted so it lasts ages.

 

[Mattyde05]

Hi Simon how do you use it ? I normally wash out old beer with water then beer line to soak for an hour in keg and lines then water again , then finally chemsan. Do you know a website I can purchase from ? Thanks mate

 

[Mattyde05]

Also is Jantex any good?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

As Simon says, it's the kind of thing that's widely available from anywhere that supplies the catering trade eg :
https://www.booker.co.uk/catalog/productinformation.aspx?code=191713https://www.brake.co.uk/search?text=beerline
But they'll probably want evidence of you being a business. If that's not an option, Nisbets should be OK, or go direct to eg Proton (more expensive but 4x500ml bottles may be handier to store)

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/jantex-beer-line-cleaner-5-litre/gc977https://proton-direct.co.uk/product-category/beerline-cleaning-and-cellar-hygiene/
In general - just follow the instructions on the bottle, typically you dilute 1 in 100 and soak for 20 minutes or so before flushing through with copious water until it runs clear - and then flush some more, you really don't want line cleaner in your beer...

 

[Mattyde05]

Ok brilliant thanks

 

[parpot]

Hi Simon how do you use it ? I normally wash out old beer with water then beer line to soak for an hour in keg and lines then water again , then finally chemsan. Do you know a website I can purchase from ? Thanks mate

I got mine from eBay 4.5ml per Litre soak for half an hour and rinse very well with clean water, I have never sterilised after that!

 

[Mattyde05]

Nice one thanks

 

[Graz]

I just build cleaning the beer line into the keg cleaning routine, i.e.

• Oh no the keg's empty
• Remove from fridge
• Rinse out with hot water several times.
• Lob a spoon or two of Oxi in there and part fill with hot water, put the lid on and give it a good shake.
• Hook it up to the gas and beer lines, pump a bit of the Oxi solution through so all the crud has been purged out of the line and it's full of Oxi.
• Disconnect and leave everything for an hour, shaking the keg once in a while.
• Rinse the keg out thoroughly with lots of cold water, part fill, fit lid and shake a bit, repeat a few times.
• The lob about 1/2 a litre of dilute StarSan into the keg, lid on, give it a shake.
• Hook this up to the gas and beer line (still full of Oxi).
• Let the StarSan through the line, lobbing away the first bit with the Oxi in.
• Let the keg empty out (i.e. the 1/2 litre of StarSan) so there's just gas coming out of the tap.
• Attach new full keg to sanitised beer line.
• Start drinking

 

[Mattyde05]

Thanks graz