Corny tap cleaning??

[jonboymentalhealth]

Hi all,
On my cornies i use a picnic tap but have inserted a length of 3/16 pipe in between as per the pics below,

Obviously when i sanitise my cornie i blast some through the tap under pressure aswell but sometimes a week or so may pass between drinks (god forbid) and the beer would be lieing in the tap for a week. Without having a empty cornie is there any other ways to clean and sanitise the tap occasionaly?? Other than seperating each component of the tap which would be a nightmare as it was a very tight fit. :evil:


Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. :hmm:

 

[timbim]

If you were to separate the disconnect from the cornie, you could drain the beer out and siphon sanitiser into the entire hose assembly.

Tim

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

siphon through the tap end?? :

 

[timbim]

Well, either end would do. You could also try just pouring in from the disconnect with the tap closed and the tube hanging vertically, which might work but the tube might be too thin to let the liquid down.

 

[Hawks]

Drink beer more often ? :thumb:

 

[markp]

You could also buy a 'carbonator cap'.....then swap your disconnect to the grey gas in.
The carbonator cap fits a PET bottle; attach and then just squeeze the bottle to push water/cleaner/sanitiser through.

The carobnator caps are also very useful for re-carbing soft drinks/mixers in their PET bottles.

ATB

 

[timbim]

The carobnator caps are also very useful for re-carbing soft drinks/mixers in their PET bottles.

Quite why you'd entertain the concept of people drinking them when there's a perfectly good cornie full of beer...
:

 

[Aleman]

Carbonator caps only fit the grey disconnects . . .however with a little bit of work with some wet and dry around the top lip they can be made to fit the black disconnects as well . . . I use one to clean my beer lines, and 3 PET bottles, BLC . . . Water . . . Peracetic. . . . then leave the peracetic in the line until I'm ready to put another beer on.

 

[Growler]

where do you get the carbonator caps all the sites I've found are USA

 

[markp]

Mine was bought at Hop & Grape.

ATB