Cleaner beer taps

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Cleaner beer taps

Post by orlando » Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:40 pm

A constant problem for owners of kegorators and keezers is keeping the bloody taps clean and stopping flies from taking an interest. I stumbled across these that suggest a quite neat solution to the problem.
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Re: Cleaner beer taps

Post by IPA » Tue Oct 18, 2016 5:59 pm

Here is my cheap and cheerful solution


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Re: Cleaner beer taps

Post by orlando » Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:02 am

Quite. What's at the other end?
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Re: Cleaner beer taps

Post by IPA » Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:22 am

orlando wrote:Quite. What's at the other end?
A 1 litre pump up sprayer

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1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip

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Re: Cleaner beer taps

Post by alexlark » Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:32 am

Great minds think alike. Only a few weeks ago I bought the exact same 1L sprayer. I pulled the brass nozzle off the end and pushed on a 6in length of pipe which I then push over the central pipe on my sankey coupler. I use this to push beer line cleaner through. Simple

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