I would like to buy or make a squeeze bottle type thing with a corny keg liquid post on it. The point of this is to run beer line cleaner into my tap lines in order to clean them. I looked on Austin Homebrew and Keg Connection, but didn’t find anything even close.
Does this thing exist? And if it does not, do you know of a way to adapt a corny keg liquid post connector to a flat surface? The one I have looks a bit like an NPT flare connector, but I don’t think it is.
Charlie
I made one of these years ago…
Works good.
You can use one of these and just mix up your cleaner in an empty soda bottle.
https://www.morebeer.com/products/carbonation-line-cleaning-ball-lock-cap-stainless.html
You can get a small submersible pump from Amazon for less than $15. I grabbed the one below. I grabbed one of the barb/ball lock adapters mentioned above and recirculate for about 15 minutes. With some 1/2" silicone tubing and a ball lock to ball lock jumper (2nd link, brewhardware-an incredible site) you can Daisy chain your lines and clean multiple at once. I’d upgrade the pump to something with more power, 2.5 ft of head makes it tricky if you do more than two lines at a time.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0757K5CZR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_BX7FFbR2VKWTD
So it is a flare connection! Cool! I can deal with that. LSA-176. Thanks!
Charlie
I had that piece in my brew plumbing box. All I needed was a 1/4 to 1/4 MIP adapter to fit it to the bottle. I hope to finish the job tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who replied.
I was going to make my own from parts bought at the home store but my LHBS had these in stock. Basically a small fruit tree sprayer with ball lock on the end of the line.
I went to Lowe’s, bought a garden sprayer, and added a kiquid-out keg plug to it. It works great and you don’t tie up a corney keg to pump cleaner through your beer lines. After cleaning with caustic, I remember nse with hot water using the same method.
A buddy gave me a liquid post that he found in his junk box, and I was surprised to find that it was 1/8 NPT thread, not a flare. A quick trip to Ho Dep and I had a 1/8 MPT to 1/8 barb fitting to match.
I cut the nozzle off a 1/2 liter wash bottle and drilled the hole out to 1/2 inch, screwed the MIP/Barb fitting through the hole, and tightened the liquid post down on top. About 6 inches of 1/8 inch Tygon tubing for a dip tube finished the job, and it works like a charm.
Sometimes I do a job, and it just works!
Charlie
I used those pumps for a while…now I use a 2.5 Gal mini keg and just push Cleaner through with CO2. CO2 is cheap.
Not cheap enough! I use two #20 tanks a year and they cost me $30.00 plus for the exchange. It used to be more like $15.00. I don’t know why it went up, but in my experience stuff never goes down!
Charlie
CO2 went up when the Federal requirements to add ethanol to gasoline were rolled back. The mid-west ethanol plants had to cut production/shutdown. Those plants were the source for a lot of the CO2 we use. No fermenting corn - no cheap CO2.
Paul
