How Tall Are Your Bucket Style Fermenters?

[Bribie G]

Obtained a dead fridge and currently holding nicely at 18 degrees with a batch of Yorkshire Bitter and only 3 frozen two litre PETs so I'm now officially in business (it was 34 ambient yesterday and probably got up to 38 in the garage).

I'm using 30L barrel screw top 'standard' fermenters and can fit one in fridge with a skinny Willow jerry alongside, and was thinking of using jerry for secondary. However I'm iffy about not being able to get my hand in to clean and yorkie trub sticks like the proverbial to the blanket.

I've seen photos of brewers using 2 bucket style snap lid fermenters one above the other. They look a lot more squat than the barrels and I'm hoping they would fit. I won't be using airlocks - plug with a cotton ball.
Could anyone be kind enough to grab a tape and just measure height of bucket? Of course it's Sunday and only LHBS that sells them is about 40k away so it would

• save me some petrol
• put me out of my misery at least till tomorrow

Why do I always get bright ideas on a Sunday.

Cheers

 

[Insight]

Hi mate

If its the same ones I have with the rip-lids (they look like pickle buckets), it is a shade under 40cm high x 35cm diameter. Hope that helps.

 

[TidalPete]

Hi mate

If its the same ones I have with the rip-lids (they look like pickle buckets), it is a shade under 40cm high x 35cm diameter. Hope that helps.

Insight is right on the money Bribie. 410mm x 365mm with a slight taper towards the bottom. Much easier to clean but sadly without a threaded bunghole at the bottom so an Easy-Syphon or similar is required unless you put on one of those wine taps that bolt into the fermenter.

Would be grateful if anyone can tell me where to obtain the above food-grade fermenting bucket that have the threaded bunghole moulded in. They are like hens teeth to find.

TP :beer:

 

[Bribie G]

I seem to remember from years ago that you can get them with a hole and a two piece tap with a rubber-washered screw on ring you screw from the inside of the bucket. Looks like I'll have to check out the larger LHBSs like Aspley. The dimensions sound fine.

 

[Barramundi]

they were available from the brew shop in marrickville in sydney , however he has sadly gone out of business so as to where to get them now is anyones guess but i do know that someone out there is makin them ...

 

[staggalee]

I seem to remember from years ago that you can get them with a hole and a two piece tap with a rubber-washered screw on ring you screw from the inside of the bucket. Looks like I'll have to check out the larger LHBSs like Aspley. The dimensions sound fine.

Malt`n`Bay 32836844 should have the proper brewing pails with the snap on lids and threaded bung at the bottom. Last one I got there had the bunghole blanked, you just drill it out and screw your tap in.
Dimensions are same as posted above.
Pity you hadn`t posted this 2 weeks ago when I sold my Tapadraft, I gave the buyer a good pail with temp gauge and tap as I wasn`t using it

stagga.

 

[Bribie G]

Malt`n`Bay 32836844 should have the proper brewing pails with the snap on lids and threaded bung at the bottom. Last one I got there had the bunghole blanked, you just drill it out and screw your tap in.
Dimensions are same as posted above.
Pity you hadn`t posted this 2 weeks ago when I sold my Tapadraft, I gave the buyer a good pail with temp gauge and tap as I wasn`t using it

stagga.

Bugger. Never mind thanks for the heads up on Malt n Bay, used to live down the road from there off Oxley, I have to hit Bunnings during the week, might do the Rothwell one and keep heading for Margate but will give them a ring first.
Cheers.

Michael

 

[TidalPete]

I seem to remember from years ago that you can get them with a hole and a two piece tap with a rubber-washered screw on ring you screw from the inside of the bucket. Looks like I'll have to check out the larger LHBSs like Aspley. The dimensions sound fine.

Bribie,

That is the tap I was refering to above. My LHBS refers to them as wine fermenter taps. They are a last resort for me. You might find that you will have to make your own holes in the buckets & lids.

Many thanks for your PM Stagga. :icon_cheers:

TP :beer:

 

[Goofinder]

I used a normal fermenter tap with a garden hose fitting screwed onto the back of it in a bucket for a while. Worked quite well and never leaked. The hole in the bucket was made large enough to fit the whole tap thread through. The garden hose fitting I think is meant to screw onto a standard garden tap and takes the thicker plastic hose (19mm?) on the back so there was plenty of room to avoid getting clogged up with chunks of yeast.

 

[matt white]

Bugger. Never mind thanks for the heads up on Malt n Bay, used to live down the road from there off Oxley, I have to hit Bunnings during the week, might do the Rothwell one and keep heading for Margate but will give them a ring first.
Cheers.

Michael

I've fermented in those blue 20+ litre Big W jerries for years. That way I can ferment two or three at a time in my temp controlled fridge.

Worth considering.

 

[Pennywise]

I seem to remember from years ago that you can get them with a hole and a two piece tap with a rubber-washered screw on ring you screw from the inside of the bucket. Looks like I'll have to check out the larger LHBSs like Aspley. The dimensions sound fine.

Dare I say, I think the Brewcraft store's sell those types of taps, yes I know they are a bunch of c*nts, but if you're finding it hard to source it may be an option for you.

 

[staggalee]

Dare I say,yes I know they are a bunch of c*nts,

:lol:

stagga.

 

[Gavo]

I got my bucket type from here about five years ago. Don't know if he still has them, might be worth a call though for your next trip down the coast.

Cheers
Gavo.

Edit; My local Mitre Ten store used to sell them before they stopped selling HB stuff.

 

[Bribie G]

I've fermented in those blue 20+ litre Big W jerries for years. That way I can ferment two or three at a time in my temp controlled fridge.

Worth considering.

Hmmm..... but how do you clean them if you (or should I say WHEN you) get a ring of crud inside? Or to be perfectly accurate when you get a RECTANGLE of crud ??? I have a two litre glass starter bottle that I can't get into but clean out by filling with fresh nappysan solution that totally eats the ring in about ten minutes. Would that work with a jerry?

 

[matt white]

Hmmm..... but how do you clean them if you (or should I say WHEN you) get a ring of crud inside? Or to be perfectly accurate when you get a RECTANGLE of crud ??? I have a two litre glass starter bottle that I can't get into but clean out by filling with fresh nappysan solution that totally eats the ring in about ten minutes. Would that work with a jerry?

You bet, exactly the same. I soak my jerries in woolies napi rinse and hot water for 24 hours. They come up a treat. For airlock use either normal ones at an angle or a metre plastic tube shoved into the hole and into a glass of iodophor.

I reckon you are better off letting the sodium perc do the job than scrub with sponges/scourers that (apparently) scratch and leave room for baddies to get inside.

 

[InCider]

I've fermented in those blue 20+ litre Big W jerries for years. That way I can ferment two or three at a time in my temp controlled fridge.

Worth considering.

The ONLY way to brew. You make beer to drink, not look at it ferment!

InCider.

 

[staggalee]

The ONLY way to brew. You make beer to drink, not look at it ferment!

InCider.

What`s the go with that photo at the swap, while you`re there? :huh:

stagga.

 

[quantocks]

I just picked up a heap of 20L jerries from Bunnings around the corner, 8 bucks each and included the taps. So you can just drill a hole for grommet/airlock in the lid and have it on the side? if so, I might get some temp controlled brewing cranking

 

[TidalPete]

One of the things that prevents me from using cubes for fermenting purposes is the amount of water wasted doing a soak just to get rid of the krausen ring.
Buckets are also much better to use as opposed to the normal screw-top fermenter.
but that is only my opinion. I'm sure I will be corrected by others

TP :beer:

 

[Batz]

One of the things that prevents me from using cubes for fermenting purposes is the amount of water wasted doing a soak just to get rid of the krausen ring.
Buckets are also much better to use as opposed to the normal screw-top fermenter.
but that is only my opinion. I'm sure I will be corrected by others

TP :beer:

Soak them then tip the water in the toilet system Pete,tap turned off of course.You on water restrictions there?
No rain water tank?

Batz