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Date:         Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:02:38 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: A WARNING!!! (Was: Cleaning the water tank!?)
In-Reply-To:  <20021230.124637.1524.11.wilden1@juno.com>
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on 30/12/02 10:45 AM, Stan Wilder wrote:

> So you want fifty names of beer companies. > Most beer draft service personnel carry a variety of cleaners. > I sold chemicals for Diversey Corp and the beer companies used vinegar to > back flush lines and remove yeast mold discoloration. > They may very well use ten other chemicals as well but it must be > something that is compatible with beer and be free rinsing enough that it > doesn't leave residue in the flexible plastic lines. Vinegar suited their > purpose. > Please submit to me a list of the chemicals that you think beer companies > use to clean draft beer lines in clubs and restaurants. I'd be very > interested to know. > I said in a perevious post that I wasn't a chemist ............... so > bear with me on this thing. > > Stan Wilder

Stan,

I would doubt that household vinegar would be very effective at taking out yeast mold discoloration in plastic lines, BTDT.

A short list of beer line cleaning/sanitising chemicals?

How about an alkaline cleanser (chlorinated or not) followed by an easy rinsing iodophor sanitizer?

Tell me I am wrong.

The point is Stan, that I would not recommend vinegar as a sanitizer for Westy water tanks. God only knows how grungy anyone's tank is, and the initial recommendation of bleach is at least potentially much much more effective as a disinfectant (we should be saying "sanitizer") than vinegar.

Alistair


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