Motorhomebrew
AKA - RobsHomebrew
Right I tried to upload this thread all in one earlier but their were too many pics so iv had to break it down into parts. Before making comments or asking questions read all parts. Their are 4 Parts to this thread. (See links at the end of this post)
Peeps Here is how I clean and sanitize my Mini kegs and prep bungs for kegging. Iv also included a how to step by step Party Star Deluxe. I hope you find this useful if your new to Mini Kegging.
Right here we go.
First off I use a demijohn brush to help assist the cleaning of my Kegs. However I'm finding I don't use it all that often. As long as once you've finished a keg you give it a good rinse untill your ready to clean it you shouldn't be left with any deposits.
Right so then your going to want to fill your keg with warm water about half full and a dash of washing up liquid, then covering the top hole with your hand give it a good shake.
Then turn it upside down and turn the top tap on to pull in air to help a faster smooth flow of water out. At this point if you've tapped into the keg and this is the first time cleaning it this I where the grommet you pushed in with your tap will pop out with the last of the water
Continue the process of filling and emptying until your satisfied that its clean and soap sudd free. Once you've done that your going to either move onto sanitizing or your going to want to remove as much excess water as possible and put away with a dust cap on and you simply do that by giving it a good thrashing around. And leave on the draining board over night. You will be left with some water that you cant get to but iv never had an issue. Now you can get rid of that by putting them in a oven after its been on but be cautious its not too hot. Iv had the plastic taps melt. ( not my fault the Mrs did it ) and you don't want that. Anyway take your dust cap
and stick it on and store away
Now if you want to sanitise get your choice of sanitizer. Mine in this case is Miltons tablets. If their good enough for new born babys their good enough for me. Their relatively cheap at around ����ã1.50 for a box of 28 I think and 1 tablet sanitizes 5 litres so fits well with my mini kegs.
So your now going to take your freshly washed keg and fill your keg to an inch from the top and pop your tablet in. I break the tablet into half to fit it in
then I fill the keg right to the top and over flow onto the top of the keg and after 15 minutes were golden. (Good to get Kegging)
So after 15 minutes empty and give it a swill with water rinse. So now you've washed and sanitized go ahead and fill your keg with your beer. Now people can get pickie here when it comes to how much to prime with sugar and in my case I brew lagers ALOT and iv found without weighing or being scientific that a heaped measured Tea spoon gives me spot on carbination everytime. But that's me. Right while your siphoning your beer into your keg you'll have enough time to grab your clean and sanitized bung and lube it up with plain old Vaseline and a cotton bud for ease.
Sanitize the cotton bud if you must but I don't and have never had a problem. Ok so your going to want to get plenty of Vaseline onto your bud and your going to fill the ridge of the bung with it
clean off any excess and it should look like this all the way round
right so what we've done their is ensure once we've pushed this onto the keg we have a good air tight seal. Now assuming we've kegged the beer and primed push your bung onto the keg and wipe the excess Vaseline off
now you've cleaned, sanitized, filled, primed, lubed and bunged. Your all done. Give yourself a clap.
Part 2 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59405
Part 3 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59406
Part 4 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59407
Peeps Here is how I clean and sanitize my Mini kegs and prep bungs for kegging. Iv also included a how to step by step Party Star Deluxe. I hope you find this useful if your new to Mini Kegging.
Right here we go.
First off I use a demijohn brush to help assist the cleaning of my Kegs. However I'm finding I don't use it all that often. As long as once you've finished a keg you give it a good rinse untill your ready to clean it you shouldn't be left with any deposits.
Right so then your going to want to fill your keg with warm water about half full and a dash of washing up liquid, then covering the top hole with your hand give it a good shake.
Then turn it upside down and turn the top tap on to pull in air to help a faster smooth flow of water out. At this point if you've tapped into the keg and this is the first time cleaning it this I where the grommet you pushed in with your tap will pop out with the last of the water
Continue the process of filling and emptying until your satisfied that its clean and soap sudd free. Once you've done that your going to either move onto sanitizing or your going to want to remove as much excess water as possible and put away with a dust cap on and you simply do that by giving it a good thrashing around. And leave on the draining board over night. You will be left with some water that you cant get to but iv never had an issue. Now you can get rid of that by putting them in a oven after its been on but be cautious its not too hot. Iv had the plastic taps melt. ( not my fault the Mrs did it ) and you don't want that. Anyway take your dust cap
and stick it on and store away
Now if you want to sanitise get your choice of sanitizer. Mine in this case is Miltons tablets. If their good enough for new born babys their good enough for me. Their relatively cheap at around ����ã1.50 for a box of 28 I think and 1 tablet sanitizes 5 litres so fits well with my mini kegs.
So your now going to take your freshly washed keg and fill your keg to an inch from the top and pop your tablet in. I break the tablet into half to fit it in
then I fill the keg right to the top and over flow onto the top of the keg and after 15 minutes were golden. (Good to get Kegging)
So after 15 minutes empty and give it a swill with water rinse. So now you've washed and sanitized go ahead and fill your keg with your beer. Now people can get pickie here when it comes to how much to prime with sugar and in my case I brew lagers ALOT and iv found without weighing or being scientific that a heaped measured Tea spoon gives me spot on carbination everytime. But that's me. Right while your siphoning your beer into your keg you'll have enough time to grab your clean and sanitized bung and lube it up with plain old Vaseline and a cotton bud for ease.
Sanitize the cotton bud if you must but I don't and have never had a problem. Ok so your going to want to get plenty of Vaseline onto your bud and your going to fill the ridge of the bung with it
clean off any excess and it should look like this all the way round
right so what we've done their is ensure once we've pushed this onto the keg we have a good air tight seal. Now assuming we've kegged the beer and primed push your bung onto the keg and wipe the excess Vaseline off
now you've cleaned, sanitized, filled, primed, lubed and bunged. Your all done. Give yourself a clap.Part 2 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59405
Part 3 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59406
Part 4 http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59407
