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Old 03-31-2006, 05:32 PM
wineglow wineglow is offline
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Default ? for Draft line cleaners

I clean draft beer lines in the Syracuse NY area including Baldwinsville, NY where there is an Anheuser-Busch brewery.
There are some brew masters that live and drink here and have
complaints of a buttery taste coming from the draft lines. The average person can't tell the difference, myself included. I use Anheuser-Busch cleaning products but the brew master wants them cleaned with a bleach / water solution and forget the normal cleaning products. I will agree they have highly developed taste buds to be a brew master. They claim the buttery taste comes from a bacterial infection in the lines. This happens on short lines, long lines, kegalator units, using circulating pump or cleaning pot. I have also used Micro-matic cleaning products with the same complaint.
Has anyone ever heard of cleaning them with bleach, and yes the complaints stop when I do clean them with bleach.
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