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Keg Cleaning
I picked up my first bit of kegging equipment Friday and went to cleaning it. I took apart the posts and soaked them in some cleaning solution. Scrubbed down the inside of the keg with cleanser for awhile and then filled it up and shook the crap out of it. Rinsed it out and pretty much repeated the same steps with sanitizer minus the scrubbing and then rinsed it out.
I siphoned my beer off into it and now it's been pressurized and I think it's ready to drink but now I'm worried because the tube that goes into the keg running from the "Out" post was never cleaned real well. I didn't think it actually came all the way out and i didn't do anything special to get the inside of it cleaned. Is there something I should do to clean it? Can I bleed off the head space and pull out that piece and try to clean it somehow? Is my beer ruined? Should I just suck it up and drink the beer? 
What really has me worried is I'm pretty sure this guy had 4 gallons of a porter sitting in that keg for the past 3 years in his garage. I'd much rather dump out my stout than get sick.
You won't get sick. They say that no pathogens can live in beer. But I would recommend taking that tube out and cleaning it.
Was it real nasty in there, or not too bad. The tube is probably in about the same condition as the rest of the keg that you did clean.
It wasn't really nasty no. Maybe it had been sealed well this whole time because I didn't see any chunks of mold or anything coming out. Just a bit of brown liquid. I'll detach the co2 and depressurized the keg and pull that tube out. What's the best way to clean it? I don't have anything that will fit down in there.
I have a long small brush that fits down there. I think it came with my first set of equipment, meant to clean the autosiphon.
I have found that as long as the keg was sealed and under pressure, the beer may end up oxidized and smelly, but fundamentally sound. You might be fine as-is.
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