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