I have about 8 or so litres left...
americans love em - or maybe they are just well cheap over there.
If you really want to go down the carboy route then look at the Better-bottle ones made out of PET plastic. They are expensive versus standard plastic screw top fermenters but cheap against the cost of glass carboys.
They do bounce when you drop them, even with 12L of liquid in them I did an unscheduled experiment whilst cleaning one a while back.
Beware of using too hot water when you clean them though, as Randyrob accidentally did an experiment once with boiling water which did not have a happy ending
not if you have access to commercial caustic - cleans them in seconds!
Fermenting in glass demijohns is great as they are less permeable to air than a plastic container, and are more hygenic (considering the porous nature of plastic)
I sit mine in the protective plastic containers which have handles, to enable easy movement, I don't put hot water in them, and I dont let then sit on surfaces that are either too cold (or hot for that matter)
Haven't broken one yet...
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