you can't make good beer with dirty
stuff in this video I'm going to show
you how to clean a keg in fact I'm gonna
clean four kegs I like to consolidate my
keg cleaning so the first thing you're
gonna want to do
release the pressure from the keg which
I've already done pop the top off you'll
dump whatever is in here into the sink
or toilet or whatever then you will
rinse it out pour some water in there
dump it
hose it again pour it out maybe do it a
third time we use what we call keg lube
which is food grade petroleum jelly on
our gas posts so they don't leak or to
reduce the leakage minimize the leakage
so what I do is take a paper towel and
wipe that off wipe as much off as you
can okay so we have a wrench I am just
going to take the poppets off here
So this is my liquid post so this is
comprised of a few different pieces
there's a spring there's a little like
nub in there and then there's the main
body I'm gonna put these in a bowl and
then I'll take this guy off as well the
gas post off the gas post same parts as
the liquid post plus has a little
small dip tube that goes down into the
keg there's also a larger longer dip
tube on the liquid side I'm gonna leave
that in here and I'll talk about that in
a little bit
and once you're done you will have a
bowl full of keg parts that looks like
this okay next step and I'm actually
shooting this out of order in reality
I've already done this but I'm gonna
show you what to do here this is the
first thing you should have done the
first thing I actually did do make a PBW
solution what I like to do is follow
the directions when I use products like
this aging tanks and kegs use 3/4 of an
ounce per gallon of water
I'm gonna make up a 5 gallon solution
3.75 ounces is what I'm
going to need so
3.75 so I have my PBW
I'm just gonna pop it in my liquid here
PBW actually works better once it's
heated heat this five gallons of
solution up to 150 degrees
I have this set to 150 I have the heating element on
I am going to circulate through the pump
it tends to dissolve faster when I do it
that way we have a separate video on
cleaning a brew system but what this
will do is clean my brewing system so
bonus I'm cleaning basically
everything today
ok we've reached 150 I'm going to turn
my pump off everything has dissolved in
the kettle that's important and I'm just
gonna fill this bowl up here whoa
too much pressure too much pressure
there we go, much better
did I mention protective gear goggles
gloves oh I didn't well I should have
I used to have two rubber gloves one
of them ripped and their on order
they're on the way
Heat's off pump on I am going to fill
this keg with PBW solution I've just
left the long dip tube
in the keg for now
I've got the keg filled here I'm
going to take this guy out and I'm going
to turn it upside down and I'm just kind
of gonna do one of these numbers what I
will do here is I'm just gonna pull this
rubber gasket back a little bit because
there's a little lip under here and I'm
gonna make sure that that gets clean as
well I'm also going to take this pipe
cleaner here it's a specialized brush
for kegs and I'm gonna clean the dip
tube with it I'll just run it all the
way through and then back out a couple
of times
these guys have been soaking
for a while I'll just go ahead and dump
this back into the kettle because I'm
gonna need these parts out of here
so I'm going to reassemble this keg
okay I have my keg reassembled and it's
been sitting in this direction for a little while
so I've let the bottom
soak now I'll just turn it upside down
and I'll let that soak for like five
minutes or so always remember there's a
difference between cleaning and
sanitizing you can't sanitize
something that's dirty I'm ready now to
move on to the next keg
Hopefully we didn't lose our prime
Oh that was close
You could pour the liquid from one keg to another
but it just gets messy I recommend
buying a liquid retention mat and doing
your work
on that we have three liquid retention
mats in this office and it has saved a
ton of wear and tear on our floor
we'll link to them in the description okay
that's the general process however there
is one more very important step that you
do not want to skip which is rinsing all
of these kegs with clean water so what I
will do is I'll just take these over to
the sink and I'll just start filling
them up with hot water and then shaking
them around I'll rinse them out
that's that make sure to check out our
video on cleaning brewing equipment and
keep an eye out for our video on
cleaning taps and tap lines which we
will be releasing soon
thanks for watching see you
