State Laws and Line Cleaning

[Scott Zuhse]

Normally this is state. Apparently no one is governing the law.

[Larry Tapper]

In minn. the beer system is to be check by the Health Dep., To many places and to little help.The A.T.F. & G department is the same way when it comes to checking on beer distributors, Ask M.M. to send the state the amount of equipment sold to beer dist. so they would see how much is being done illegal, was told they could not do that.

[DCullender]

Here in Virginia, the distributors are required to clean the lines. I've talked to many of the Draft Services Managers and they all agree that line cleaning is a very costly business and one they would like to get out of.

You figure all the expense of hiring employees. So the opportunities are there to sub contract this service.

You may find the distributors more than happy to talk to you about subbin.

Dennis

[Scott Zuhse]

Had an independent tech from CT in workshop recently and he stated that the local folks who govern the restaurants check the draft systems often and thoroughly. That's refreshing!

[better than mama]

I have to agree with the horrible situation with NY. Most lines are really dirty, and when I explain that they need to get the lines cleaned, they just say "ok" and never have it done. I have seen black stuff coming out of the lines from one flush using a pressurised bottle. These are big places with long lines that are not keeping the lines clean. I have also had an account that was paying a guy to clean his lines regularly, but the guy never actually did it. I think it was going on for quite sometime before I checked.

I also have noticed that the installation guys hava no clue about draft beer. I got into an argument with one at a restaurant when he told me that the gas pressure has to be at 5-8psi to keep it from foaming. They just set it up and leave it without explaining cleaning or anything else.

I hope they make it part of the health code. It seems to get more restaurants intersted since you can view the violation points online now.

[steakon]

beerline cleaning

Hi Ed,
My names Bill I have cleaned draft beerlines for 12 years at 3 casinos in New England. Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, and Twin River also other bars in the area.
I have recently relocated to North Carolina where my family is from and my equipment is wasting away. There are no laws for cleaning lines. I have worked bartending for the couple of months I've been here and nobody where I work has ever seen the lines cleaned including the manager.
I would love to get back into the line cleaning business and i would have no issuse moving if needed but which states have this as a law and which do not? Connecticut, mass. and Rhode Island do have the law.
Thank you, Bill

[A.Y.Beer]

State Laws and Cleaning

PA certainly has laws on tap cleaning. The taps and lines are actually looked at by the Board of Health and PLCB. Mostly they check the facuets and see if they are dirty or not. I have seen a lot of dirty taps and really dirty taps to the point where they are green. I can not imagine a state not having laws on the books on tap cleaning. People can get sick most of all from dirty taps, and also I can not imagine a bar owning not wanting to clean their taps. They get better taste in the beer, no one gets sick, and ultimately they save money by beer flowing properly, and getting their seals checked.

Adam

[PremiumVADraftTech]

Here in Virginia, the distributors are required to clean the lines. I've talked to many of the Draft Services Managers and they all agree that line cleaning is a very costly business and one they would like to get out of.

You figure all the expense of hiring employees. So the opportunities are there to sub contract this service.

You may find the distributors more than happy to talk to you about subbin.

Dennis

That is not totally true because there are some 3rd party companies out there (in nova anyway) that clean some beer lines for certain distributors. I work for the biggest distributor in va, in the nova area.. we have about 69% of the beer in our market.


edit: I jut noticed the dates of some of these posts lol wow it may be different now