Clean kegerator lines are a key part of serving delicious beer. Bacteria and mineral build in lines can cause off flavors, quick loss of head, under-carbonated beer due to rapid co2 loss and lack of legs forming on the inside of your beer glass.
How Often Should I Clean My Beer Lines?
The Draught Quality Beer Manual says… every two weeks.
That recommendation is for a commercial operation. What about homebrewers? We serve far fewer beer on our kegerators, but on the other hand, we can have been on tap and in lines 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Considering all of this, my recommendation is to clean home kegerator beer lines every 1 to 2 months.
Limited Time Deal – Pre-Order Ball Lock Jumpers
Stainless Steel Ball Lock Jumper via Valuebrew
More Info
From the product description, check product page for current description, price and availability:
A Valuebrew Exclusive! Stainless Steel Ball Lock Jumper with our Food Safe Silicone O-Rings.
Use to connect multiple Ball Lock keg lines without disassembling. This allows you to clean more quickly and easily and allows you to clean QDs along with draft lines.
Works with BOTH liquid and gas posts. This allows you to jump from liquid to gas to do things like purging a keg from top to bottom using the liquid out post.
Note that o-ring color may vary, but you’ll always receive our food grade, silicone ball lock o-rings. Most likely, you’ll receive the pictured custom blue o-rings but we may substitute if we run out of stock. For gas QD connections, we recommend only short term connections as we cannot guarantee a leak free connection. Pictured QDs are not included.
Stainless steel ball lock jumper from Valuebrew. This works with both gas and liquid QDs. That means you can jump from keg line to keg line for cleaning and also hook up to the liquid side of your keg to purge with CO2 from the top to the bottom.
These also feature Valuebrew’s Food Grade Silicone Post O-Rings. Blue are pictured, but color can vary.
Valuebrew has generally struggled keeping things in stock and they’ve… specifically struggled to keep these in stock. As of this posting, these are in stock and on sale. Beyond the discounted price, you can add a second jumper on for even less.
As of this posting these are back in stock for pre-order. According the the product page the shipment is expected to arrive on 1/6. If they’ve sold out… we keep a close eye on these – connect with HBF – and I’ll let you know if they come back in stock.
Stainless Steel Ball Lock Jumper
Line Cleaning Options
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