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It doesn't matter whether you have a home bar with a kegerator,
or professional bar with many taps.
One of the most crucial things you could do to maintain the best possible quality in your beer is
clear those beer lines and beer faucets regularly.
Without regular cleaning,
yeast can build up and form particles in the lines and pretty soon you've got little nasties
floating around in your beer, and you don't want that.
You should be cleaning out your beer lines about every half keg.
That's about the best optimum time to do it, to make sure you have the best optimal quality beers.
Doing so can be extremely easy if you get a beer line cleaning kit from KegWorks.com
Let's take a look.
Cleaning out your beer lines might sound rather intimidating,
but this is all it takes.
You start off with this quart bottle with a pump assembly,
specialized spanner wrench,
a faucet brush,
and some cleaning solution and that's it.
So let's go ahead and clear our beer lines out.
The first and most important thing to do
is to make sure that we have the CO2 turned completely off.
Now we turn the regulator off.
Next you'll have to take apart your system by unscrewing your faucet with a spanner wrench
and unscrewing the coupler from the beer line to clean inside the pieces and parts that pour your beer.
And to clean
the faucet out
we're going to use this bowl of warm water.
To this we're going to add a cap full of cleaning solution that comes with the kit.
I'm going to put some of the cleaning solution in this quart jar here as well.
Then take apart the faucet, giving it a good scrub with your faucet brush, pay special attention to scrubbing the inside of your faucet body and the inside of the coupler probe.
Getting inside those grooves is important.
Connect the cleaning jar and pump
to the faucet shank coupling nut.
Make sure to use the included washer between the cleaning attachment and the faucet coupling nut.
Use the spanner wrench to tighten it.
Then place the beer line end in the bucket and pump the solution through the lines.
Disconnect the cleaning jar and fill it back up with clean water,
just as before pump the water through the beer line.
Repeat this one more time to ensure that all the cleaning solution has been rinsed from the lines.
After rinsing, disconnect the cleaning jar and pump
and replace the faucet assembly.
Use the spanner wrench to slightly tighten the coupling nut.
Next, we can take our beer line that has just been cleaned out. Make sure you get the washer out.
Put the washer back in
and attach to the beer coupler
and then the coupler to the keg.
Now we're going to open up our CO2 tank all the way.
Once that's opened properly, we want to turn the regulator back on.
Once that's done
put the CO2 tank back into the fridge,
and we're ready for another cold pint.