Proper care and maintenance of your bar equipment is an important part of any bar area, be it in a restaurant, free standing pub, or hotel. Today we’ll cover helpful tips on making your bar equipment maintenance simple and easy. So why should you keep your bar equipment clean? The main reason is to keep on-tap beers tasting their best and pouring smoothly. Beer lines, line other bar equipment, can build up sediment the longer they are in use. In addition to causing your bar equipment to become contaminated, it will also increase foaming in your beer.

Depending on the line length on your bar equipment the process of flushing your beer lines can be a time consuming but important process, but with the right selection of bar supplies the task becomes a snap. Choose a good beer line cleaner that is non-abrasive when flushing your bar equipment. While non-abrasive is pretty much standard it is still good to double check. Abrasive cleaners can scratch the inside of your beer lines causing your beer to become increasingly foamy as it passes over the scratches and nicks.

Once the process of flushing your beer lines with beer line cleaner has been completed, it is time to sanitize your beer lines. The beer line cleaner will flush out the sediment from your beer lines and the sanitizer is the process that will kill all the bacteria inside your bar equipment, so both steps are needed to maintain maximum beer taste in your bar equipment. It is also recommended that once you have completed the sanitizer process that the entire system is flushed again with clean water. This final flushing of the system with water will help remove any lingering sanitizer that could taint the taste of the beer.

There is more to maintenance of your bar equipment than just the beer lines however. It is equally important to keep outside of your bar equipment in top shape. Generally, it is a good idea to clean the keg tap and beer faucet on the same schedule as the cleaning of the beer line since that piece of bar equipment will be out of service for the duration of its cleaning anyway. The keg tap and beer faucet are perhaps the easiest places for contamination and bacteria to enter your bar equipment but with regular cleaning the chances of contamination from these two pieces of bar equipment is drastically reduced. Unlike the beer faucet and keg tap, the spill tray requires much more attention. Empty the spill tray as needed during bar operation and make sure to give it a thorough cleaning at night when wiping down the rest of the bar equipment.

If you have questions on which bar supplies are right for cleaning your bar equipment, feel free to contact us via phone at 800-797-3788 or click the picture of the customer service representative at the top left corner of each page of the site to launch a live chat.