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I don't worry about it, other than rinsing sweet or bitter wort off of the copper manifold and chiller. The low pH of the wort will clean off any oxides, and copper is readily consumed by the yeast (it's an essential nutrient), and it's all pre-boil, so a hot-water rinse is all that's necessary, assuming you're doing all of your cleanup at the end of your ...

I clean my home made copper manifold and immersion chiller a couple of different ways. The manifold get's boiled before and after use to remove all the sticky sugars from inside the tubing. The immersion chiller get's rinsed and then boiled in the wort before chilling. It's rinsed with very hot water afterwords and sometimes I give it a clean with a soap ...

Do not use copper with acidic foods High concentrations of copper are poisonous and acidic foods, especially carbonated foods like beer, will suck it out of the metal. The FDA explains: 4-101.14 Copper, Use Limitation. When copper and copper alloy surfaces contact acidic foods, copper may be leached into the food. The acid that results from mixing ...