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Copper cleaning schedule

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Ok so I was stripping out a single malt yesterday and noticed a brown shitty film building up on my stainless steel funnel then more in the end of my strip I took down my still and washed out a bunch of brown crud and my copper condenser is starting to get a green tarnish on the 4 cut ends in the shotgun I'm wondering if this is a normal deal or did I just puke bad I was running 4 gallon
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barley in an 8 gallon boiler on medium heat. What can I use to clean that green crud off? Citric acid? Ketchup? Or am I being a clean freak
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Cap the end and fill it with citric acid solution, and let it sit for a couple of hours it should wipe right off.
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It's just weird to me I ran 60 pounds of sugar thru it and no build up the minute I run a grain mash it does this
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All grains and the oily brown shits are a pain. I use a hot citric acid wash to clean it.
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I've got to go get some citric acid and I'm gonna clean the whole condenser before the spirit run I dont want any brown shit in my final product
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You dont have a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge?
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Soak for an hour or two in hot backset then rinse well with water.
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Deplorable wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:40 am You dont have a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge?
Will lime juice work that's what I have
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Durhommer wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:55 am
Deplorable wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:40 am You dont have a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge?
Will lime juice work that's what I have
It should. Its a citrus.
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