Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

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Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:06 pm

Anyone have thoughts on this? just hooking up my perlicks and shanks that i got a couple weeks ago. wondering what sort of cleaning i should do before first use? my thought was soak all the bits n bobs in oxyclean, rinse well, then go to town.
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
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Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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Re: Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

Post by LiverDance » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:43 pm

sounds about right
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

Post by Tony L » Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:48 pm

CorneliusAlphonse wrote:? my thought was soak all the bits n bobs in oxyclean, rinse well, then go to town.
I did all that and then also star-san'd the daylights out of it.
I also used Q-Tips to clean the parts when it was in the Oxyclean solution.
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Re: Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

Post by 2Hands-1Mouth » Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:43 am

I just drank from it as is. Cuz im dirty like that. lol
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Re: Initial cleaning of perlick faucets

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:46 am

Chucked em Ina bucket of oxyclean for the night, I'll rinse and soak in in hot water tomorrow, then install! Pumped to get off the picnic taps!!
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
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Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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