Beer line cleaning

The cleaning of all beer lines is of utmost importance to the beer retailer. Regular beer line cleaning keeps your beer on top form and your profits in good shape as well. The cleaning of cask ale beer lines however requires a little more attention if you are to provide the perfect pint. The...
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The most important, yet one of the most hated jobs for Landlords or Landladies alike is beer line cleaning. Probably because it takes up, what most publicans have little of…“Time”. As a result this is often neglected and can be catastrophic to a business. While cleaning beer lines is straightforward, it may confuse someone...
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If you look through the pages of Inndoctor you will see the importance we place on good beer line cleaning procedures in the cellar. The basic methodology is quite simple and is covered in some detail on this site. However there is an area which we believe we have not covered and that is...
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As the old saying goes  “familiarity breeds contempt”. Whilst visiting a beer cellar recently one of our contributing technicians came across a safety issue   that affects us all. As he was doing his technical thing with the spanners he noticed the landlord was cleaning the beer lines. Fine no problem there he thought but...
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Here at Inndoctor we are fed up listening to the same old doom and gloom. If we hear another reference to “50 pubs a week closing”we will lock ourselves in our virtual cellar and get virtually plastered. Anyway the thought arises that despite the “50 pubs…………” thing, we believe that as the economy recovers...
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1.0 Pre Rinse 1.1 Switch off inline flash coolers. 1.2 Fill water cleaning container with water. 1.3 Turn off gas supply to keg couplers. 1.4 Connect keg couplers to cleaning main and press to open position. 1.5 Turn on cleaning main gas pump. 1.6 Unscrew sparklers from dispense taps and immerse in a receptacle...
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Keg beer is pasteurised so it shouldn’t be cloudy. Check if your lines need cleaning, put on a new container and draw off two or three pints until you know that the new product is coming through, the beer should now be clear. . Check again after about an hour. Draw off a pint,...
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1.0 Pre Rinse 1.1 Switch off inline flash coolers. 1.2 Fill water cleaning container with water. 1.3 Turn off gas supply to keg couplers. 1.4 Connect keg couplers to cleaning main and press to open position. 1.5 Turn on cleaning main gas pump. 1.6 Unscrew sparklers from dispense taps and immerse in a receptacle...
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