cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
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cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
Is oxi-clean OK to use on a sanke keggle to remove brew scale?
What strength solution? Should or does it have to be soaked?
What strength solution? Should or does it have to be soaked?
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
You're not going to hurt the SS, but what you have might be better suited for caustic cleaning.
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
i use it on my corney's occasionally, but i've heard horror stories from the internet, so i only let it soak a couple hours at the most.
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
I use Barkeepers Friend on my sanke boil kettle and it works great. I also use oxiclean in my pepsi kegs, but as mentioned only for a couple of hours.
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
PBW and Starsan is what I use.
No problems with the length of the soak.
Sandy
No problems with the length of the soak.
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
I use oxyclean for everything and leave it in my cornies sometimes for weeks 

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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
Whew! So do I, and was beginning to think someone knew something I didn'tLiverDance wrote:I use oxyclean for everything and leave it in my cornies sometimes for weeks

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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
well everything except aluminum, that's a no noderek wrote:Whew! So do I, and was beginning to think someone knew something I didn'tLiverDance wrote:I use oxyclean for everything and leave it in my cornies sometimes for weeks
"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: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
what can I say, I get scared by Internet rumors.derek wrote:Whew! So do I, and was beginning to think someone knew something I didn'tLiverDance wrote:I use oxyclean for everything and leave it in my cornies sometimes for weeks
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
I use PBW and a bit of elbow grease to remove beerstone from time to time.
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Re: cleaning BK with oxi-clean?
My 2 kettles are under PBW now.
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