Cleaning beer filter

[joel0395]

Hi, on ebay where I bought my filter kit from it suggested that I should use napi san to clean it, just wondering how I rinse this good enough to be safe? Or should I go for something else like clr that is food safe? Cheers

 

[razz]

I always soak mine in PBW Joel, when I rinse i back flush with hot water until there is no taste or odour left in the water coming through the filter. Napisan should be fine.

 

[woodwormm]

I find the other crap in nappysan hard to rinse, be it filter, keg or fermenter. 'Uncut' sodium perc or PBW is much easier to rinse.

Ditto on the backflush,

 

[mrsupraboy]

I didn't soak mine but back flushed for quite a while and there is still a smell to it. Do u guys have a lot of trouble cleaning the filter. Sorry to hijack

 

[razz]

No probs in clearing the filter, always back flush first and when I soak in PBW i do it for 24 hours. This gets the beer colour out of the filter.

 

[Coldspace]

After I filter beer, I rinse my filtering keg out, fill it 1/4 way up with water and 1 tablespoon of aldi non scented di-San. I shake mix, pressurise with some gas, then back flush filter with this .this forces yeast crap out of membrane. As I am now soaking my fermenters with 1 tablespoon of di-San I then remove the flushed filter cartridge and drop into fermenter/di-San mix. I leave for a day to soak . Then rinse cartridge under a running tap for 1 minute. I then soak it in a small bucket of plain warm water for another day or 2. Then pull it out and dry it on my work bench over few days.

I then just leave it to use next time.

I have put over 50 kegs through it still going really well.

 

[woodwormm]

my actual routine is..... usually....

after filtering beer it's usually late so filter and most anything else gets thrown in a bucket of starsan.

when i get around to it over the next week, I soak filter in PBW for a day or two, hook up tap water to filter and backflush for 5-10 mins, then forward flush for 5-10 minutes then let it dry.

on next filter day, I throw filter into bucket of starsan then hook it up and away I go.

 

[Spiesy]

I take mine out, rinse it thoroughly with hot water. And then soak in sodium percarbonate and hot water (with fermenter). Rinse again thoroughly with hot water.

 

[seamad]

i soak mine in napisan for a couple of days, rinse well in hot water then fill housing with starsan and pump up and down a couple of times to get rid of any residual napisan then air dry. night before kegging fill housing with starsan and set filter up, after 5 minutes invert to drain overnight, then flush with co2 before using.

last pils didn't filter clear so reckon it's stuffed, how many kegs on average do they last? as i don't filter all beers i'm not sure how many it has done, will track use with next one.

 

[mckenry]

i soak mine in napisan for a couple of days, rinse well in hot water then fill housing with starsan and pump up and down a couple of times to get rid of any residual napisan then air dry. night before kegging fill housing with starsan and set filter up, after 5 minutes invert to drain overnight, then flush with co2 before using.

last pils didn't filter clear so reckon it's stuffed, how many kegs on average do they last? as i don't filter all beers i'm not sure how many it has done, will track use with next one.

I have stuffed two filters. I reckon its because I left them in Napisan for too long, i.e. a couple of days to 4 or 5. The pleats became disformed and saggy and didnt dry back into shape. I now have a KK filter, which has a plastic 'frame' and I try not to leave it in solution for more than a few hours. This one seems to be going well.

 

[mrsupraboy]

I think I'm just gonna next go, backflash, soak and then throw it in the freezer till next use

 

[angus_grant]

yep, pretty much my method. Backflush with tap water after use and then run some starsan through filter and whack it in the beer fridge until next use.

Preparing for use: run some hot water through filter, then star san, and purge with CO2 before starting filtering.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I used to get hazy beer if I left any starsan solution on the filter... so now I rinse it with hot tap water before filtering, then flush with CO2.

 

[angus_grant]

he he, star san, then hot water, then purge with CO2.

Lucky you corrected me Liam as I am going to filter and keg the DSGA tonight.