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Brewman:
 When I use bleach as a sanitizer for my brewing setup, I use a couple tablespoons per five gallons of water.  Less than a quarter cup.  In five gallons.  
 This mixture is quite adequate for sanitizing- with a contact time of less than an hour to be effective.  Overnight, it will remove the most stubborn dried on brewing crud inside my glass fermenters.

Your 1/2 cup per gallon mixture was very strong- so it probably loosened up all sorts of crud that was in the machine.  I'd keep flushing with bleach and rinsing well until you are satisfied it's all clear.  

 Good cleaning, it sounds like.  Now you see what your water was running thru.

Brookenstein:
So I put about 3 gallons of tap water in the jug and then let it sit on the tower for an hour or so.  When I first started getting the hot water it was almost clear, about a gallon later, it was getting darker and darker again.  The cold water was maybe one tinge darker than yesterday at the end, but still basically clear.

I'm not sure if I should just keep flushing it with tap water or if I should add a few tablespoons of bleach to it again.

jfish63:
If you use bleach again follow brewmans info. I home brew also and use no more than 2 ounces per 5 gallons of cold water. A scoop from powdered iced tea is pretty close to 2 ounces.

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