Keg Washer FAQ and CSS FAQ

The keg washing process varies in time depending on the preferences of the user. The Cascade Stainless Keg Washer comes with factory settings to clean two or three kegs in about 5 minutes. The parameters of the keg cleaning cycle are user adjustable on the Cascade Stainless Keg Washer’s touchscreen.

Both. During the keg washing process, filtered air is initially used to evacuate the kegs of leftover beer. Likewise, during the cleaning cycle, filtered air is used to purge the kegs after the caustic, sanitizer, and rinse cycles.

Cascade Stainless Keg Washers are extremely easy to install. The Cascade Stainless Keg Washer is plug and play. Your Cascade Stainless Keg Washer will come with the correct electrical plug that corresponds with your building’s outlet. Simply connect compressed air and CO2 to the industrial air quick connect fittings on the side of the keg washer. Connect fresh water to the 1.5” tri-clover connection on the semi-automatic keg washer. Fill the reservoirs with water and the correct concentrations of sodium hydroxide (caustic) and peracetic acid (sanitizer). Now you are ready to clean kegs.

A Cascade Stainless Keg Washer will clean any size keg. Cascade Stainless Keg Washers run fully automatic keg washing cycles once the kegs are connected. The Cascade Stainless Keg Washer comes will factory settings to clean ½ barrel, ⅙ barrel, and 50-liter kegs. However, the pressure sensor and the user’s ability to adjust cleaning cycle parameters allows the machine to wash any size keg.

A Cascade Stainless Keg Washer come in standard 2 head (2 keg stations), 3 head (3 keg stations), and our newer 4 head (4 keg stations) models. So the maximum number of kegs you can wash at the same time is 4 kegs with the 4 station model. If you have larger requirements, this would be a custom build and would need further discussion. Please feel free to contact us to ask about a custom keg washer build.

Cascade Stainless Keg Washers are custom built by hand in the United States in Oregon. We use many many American made components, including our high quality Allen-Bradley interface.

Cascade Stainless Keg Washers use all Allen-Bradley electrical components inside the control boxes of the machine. We use a 7-inch Allen-Bradley touchscreen human-machine-interface (HMI) and Allen-Bradley programmable logic controller (PLC). The pressure sensor and thermocouple temperature transmitter are American-made from ProSense.

As most of our equipment requires some or a lot of custom fabrication work, the lead times can vary widely for Cascade Stainless Keg Washers. We will happily provide you with the most up-to-date lead times and inform you of the production schedule, when you contact us and inquire about our products.

For our custom made products such as keg washers

Cascade Stainless Solutions will typically take 50% down payment and require 50% prior to shipping the unit. Cascade Stainless Solutions will help arrange shipping, but the buyer is responsible for the shipping cost and the payment of that shipping cost. We do help arrange shipping to most parts of the world.

Online Shop:

For items ordered from our online shop payment is collected at the time of the order and shipping options are provided during check out.

Cascade Stainless Solutions offers several different models to choose from. You can visit each of the model pages to read individual specs on the Keg Washer pages.