Insect in line during cleaning?

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TallDan

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Just cleaned a draft line with my normal method (pumping BLC then water backwards through the lines for 10 min each). Then, again as usual, hooked the line up to a keg and poured off the last bit of water and the first bit of beer from the keg into a glass to be poured out.

As I grabbed the glass to dump it out, i noticed an earwig floating in it. Only thing I can figure is that it crawled up into the faucet before I started cleaning and was caught in there during the cleaning cycle.

So, I poured a glass from another tap while I think about what to do next. Call it good and pour a pint of american wheat? Reclean the line? Take everything apart and scrub? Nuke it from orbit?
 
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