Hi everyone!
I have a kegerator and I have not cleaned the beer lines for around 1.5 months. The lines have had either CO2, beer or a mixture of the two inside the entire time (no air) and have been refrigerated at 3.5C (no room temperature). I was wondering whether I can still use the lines if I use the following cleaning regiment:
30 minute hot water PBW soak
Clean, hot water to rinse out lines
5 minute iodophor soak
Run new beer through, throw out first few pints
The reason I want to do this is that I can only order beer lines online and they take 3-5 business days to arrive, and I wanted to keg for this upcoming weekend. If this is not possible I will have to wait for the order, I just wanted to ask before ruining my beer with a possible infection / off flavor because of the beer lines.
Thanks in advance for your input.
I have a kegerator and I have not cleaned the beer lines for around 1.5 months. The lines have had either CO2, beer or a mixture of the two inside the entire time (no air) and have been refrigerated at 3.5C (no room temperature). I was wondering whether I can still use the lines if I use the following cleaning regiment:
30 minute hot water PBW soak
Clean, hot water to rinse out lines
5 minute iodophor soak
Run new beer through, throw out first few pints
The reason I want to do this is that I can only order beer lines online and they take 3-5 business days to arrive, and I wanted to keg for this upcoming weekend. If this is not possible I will have to wait for the order, I just wanted to ask before ruining my beer with a possible infection / off flavor because of the beer lines.
Thanks in advance for your input.