Cleaning Copper

Spiritintheair

Any ideas about cleaning copper? White vinegar or Citric Acid ?

Spiritintheair

I'm doing a trial with caustic soda. And concrete etcher And Beer line cleaner (powerful acid based)

Spiritintheair

Abd Citric acid And White wine vinegar

richard

@Spiritintheair said: I'm doing a trial with caustic soda. And concrete etcher And Beer line cleaner (powerful acid based)

Using caustic will shorten the life of your copper.

Homebrew

Citric acid.

punkin

Hot backset.

Spiritintheair

Thank you!

Homebrew

4 inch copper plates after being boiled in water with citric acid.

CothermanDistilling

FYI - that blue water is $$$ being dissolved and pink copper is not needed for copper to function as a catalyst in a still.

Smaug

100%.

Unless you have an accumulation of sticky molasses tar, a simple hose down will do. No need to take it back to virgin copper.

Homebrew

These plates needed a good clean. And a good clean is what they got.

Don't worry about it.

Unsensibel

It looks so pretty… until the next run