I recently got a CIP spray ball, curious if there was some magic there that made cleaning my kettle or fermentor easier. I've tried it once so far, and realized that as simple as it seems, it definitely needs the right process to make it worthwhile.
In my attempt, I was hauling buckets of water from my sink to my kettle so many times, for a process that ended up being harder and much more time consuming.
So if you've got a good process, I'm all ears!
Try recirculating cleaning solution with a pond pump placed in some sort of receptacle to catch the solution as it exists the dump valve (or whatever).
I have spike cf15s and sometimes use my cip ball. I fill my boil kettle with 20gal of water and pbw, heat it to 185f and run it through a pump into the fermenter til I have about 5 gallons in the fermenter. Then I open the valve on the fermenter and run it through my second pump back into the boil kettle. Recirculate like this for 30 mins while doing other chores. Then drain and rinse, check for any missed areas, wipe down, and done.
I roll my CF10 over to the pump and let PBW recirc. Very convenient.
Does anybody use it in their kettle? I have a 20 gallon but it leaks out the sides of the condenser lid. Any ideas for getting it to “seal”?
I put my CIP on a QD so that I can use it on everything.. My keggle has the SSBrewtech brewbucket lid with a 1.5" TC so the top piece has an 8" nipple on the inside of the TC that drops well below the rim with the male QD. Very little leaks out, and I can pop the CIP onto my keg/fermenter cleaner as well.
Post time 2022-9-16 08:50:27
