How To Clean A Beer Keg - Top Tips for Cleaning and Maintaining Your Corny Kegs

Hey brewers! Have you ever wanted to know how to keep your beer kegs cleaned, sanitized and well maintained? In this video, we break down how to keep your beer kegs in top-notch condition. We cover everything from how to properly clean your kegs to the common parts that need to be replaced and maintained.
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[@tylerviney4840]

Pick and hook set (o-ring removal tool) or just a metal dental pick you can get from the dollar store, they're basically the same thing. works great.

[@graintoglass]

Thanks for the tip. Cheers!

[@ricksigurdson2016]

Informative and useful. Thanks.
O ring removal is easy with a small sharpened piano wire hook.

[@graintoglass]

The creativity of homebrewers never ceases to amaze me. Great idea!

[@user-ly4ce4wx8g]

Hi Paul. The other comments for o-ring tools are all valid. I use a very small flat head screw driver about 1/8 inch wide. This works with all of the o-rings. When I clean kegs I dissassemble them completely and remove all o-rings for cleaning. When assembling I coat the entire surface of the o-rings with lube by running them through my fingers. With the o-rings completely coated they never stick and last for a very long time. Back in 2009 I picked up a pallet of kegs (24) from a micro brewery in Nova Scotia and of the ones I kept (14) You could count the number of o-rings I have replaced on one hand. The Star-San trick for leak detection is brilliant! Much better than soapy water. Keep the excellent videos coming.

[@graintoglass]

Thanks for the great tips Bill. Cheers!

[@vikasrana7702]

Subscribed today and watched a couple of vids. I'm loving your channel. The details with which you explain things are insane. Like even small details of spraying star san for leakage check on orings and underneath the beer or co2 line. Thanks, cause it really helps nervous people like me I'm sure.

[@graintoglass]

Thank you!

[@Nefariousrouge]

Best tip for the post orings is to use small pick or strong safety pin to go under it and pull it up. I work as a mechanic and encounter seals like that on cars all the time. A nice small right angle pick is the way to go. They can be had cheap at a store that sells tools. Would recommend picking up that special tool or a 7/8 and 11/16 12 point sockets for the keg posts instead of the crescent wrench. I have 1 keg in my collection that has a 12 point that is different than anything else. Even the threaded connection is different on the keg.

[@graintoglass]

Awesome, thanks for the recommendations. Cheers

[@sweetazzmofo]

Yep or a dental pick 👍

[@GentleGiantFan]

Got a link to that specialty wrench? I have different kegs, so one wrench for everything would be golden.
Agree with the others about the pick tool for the post Orings. Should be easy to find. No Harbor Freight? I bet Canada Tire (Canadian Tire?) is more or less the same type of store.

[@ambertatum-jc2bo]

Harbor freight has little hooks that work well

[@graintoglass]

I wish HF was in Canada.

[@growiemcgrowerson2766]

Princess Auto

[@raddockery9248]

Do you have a video on how to get started wit Kegging? what equipment is needed and how to setup etc?

[@graintoglass]

We do, you can check it out here th-cam.com/video/C7Rzbut6Vhw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LaJGQdTRJOWtiPwh

[@zamamoosh]

I’ve been looking for a dip tube cleaning brush in the uk. No luck as yet.

[@graintoglass]

That's to bad it's a cheap and handy cleaning tool. Cheers

[@davidmorgan4284]

Try looking to the medical field. I'm retired, but my last job was Sterile processing, I was the surgery tool guy. I use these brushes myself.
You can clean, without sanitizing, but you can't sanitize, without cleaning!

[@nickromaniuk7012]

After using the star san, do you rinse it out or leave it and just put the beer in it without a rinse? Sorry newbie here.

[@graintoglass]

Hello, starsan is a no rinse sanitizer. Cheers

[@hybrid4984]

Starsan liquid is still left inside. Thats the problem." Dont fear the bubble " but what about the liquid left😁