Cleaning long draw Bag-in-the-box wine

[Draught Prophet]

I have to put together a quote for an account that has a long draw BIB wine system with flojet pumps.

How do you go about cleaning this system? What do you hook up the BIB connector to? I see a liquid wine line cleaner out there, but nothing else.

Thanks,
Cheers,
Steve

[Larry Tapper]

I Have cleaned wine lines in the past, To find a fitting just take an empty box and cut the connection of then use this on the line to be cleaned. Put the line you are cleaning in a pail of mixed up cleaning solution and draw it into the system. If the wine is dispensed with a gun, the gun may have to be disassembled(the valve) and cleaned. there is very small parts in there. The ss facuet,or plastic facuet are much easier.

[Draught Prophet]

Thanks Larry. Sometimes I tend to over-think the problem. Brilliant cost effective answer. Thanks!!

[Brianatkcdraft]

I have a friend who works for the local Pepsi company, and they handle BIB systems. If Im thinking right, the fittings are the same. He has a supplier he uses called Beverage Clean. They have a pre-mixed solution in the bag. He just hooks it up to the fitting, and runs it through. It also goes through the guns with no trouble. The company also has a series manifold you can hook it up to multiple products, while using the same bag of cleaner. Pretty neat system to watch! Saves a ton of time, but I don't know how cashy it is. You can find them on-line at bevclean.com cya, brianatkcdraft