How to Clean Your Draft Beer Line
You go to great lengths to make sure your beer is spot on. You tend to every step along the way. You are sure your yeast starters are healthy, you are even using a climate-controlled environment to ferment. You even tend to the sanitizing of your equipment. Why, then, do you sometimes skimp on the cleaning of your draft lines? Every step of the way, adds incremental points of quality, and can affect the taste of your beer, if you aren’t careful. Draft beer line cleaning in Austin TX, and elsewhere is a very simple undertaking. Here’s how you clean your draft lines. Cleaning the Draft Lines If you are using a long-draw system, then re-circulation cleaning is necessary. A long-draw system is a system where the keg is more than twenty feet away, and your beer must travel this distance, down the draft lines, to the faucet. Professional establishments use the re-circulation method of cleaning, where they circulate a clean solution through every draft beer line, for at least a fe...
