Gasketted stainless heat exchanger

[Fil]

fyi if using pbw it reccomends you rinse with warm/hot water. Why?? i dunno, just repeating whats on the label...

[Kev888]

I heard the warm rinse helps shift minerals deposited on the surface after soaking; sadly I don't know if thats true or not, but PBW can certainly leave a slimy film before rinsing and warm water dissolves and cleans stuff off better in general, so it seems at least plausible to me.

Cheers,
Kev

[BeerBloke]

Here at Wibblers we back flush our HE with hot water after every brew. This will clear a great deal of any protein build up. We do a caustic re-circ once a month and a deep clean (strip down and jet pressure wash) every couple of months.

I'm sure if we did a caustic CIP wash every brew we'd never need to strip it however to do that I'd be working an 18 hour day instead of 12 or have to employ a night shift.....

That's the difference between the big boys and us

As a homebrewer I'd be a tad concerned about the sealed HE's but if you caustic them when you've finished with them and to an occasional acid re-circ to remove any beerstone build up you should be okay.