New Bunnings "fermenter" Style Containers

[Vini2ton]

Something made in Australia.Pinch me.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

So are they all blue now?


http://www.bunnings.com.au/venture-bmw-30l-blue-tint-wide-mouth-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240534

I would have thought they would be blue to fit in with various other coloured vessels ie

Blue = water
Red = Petrol
Yellow/Black = Diesel
Green = 2 stroke

 

[dammag]

The new blue fermenter I bought from Bunnings last week had a sticker over a sticker on it. I peeled back the top sticker and underneath was a Super Cheap Auto sticker. I just looked on their website and they sell them for $25 as opposed to $16 at Bunnings. Useless info I know.

As an aside, anyone worrying about the odour of these when they are new, I filled mine with hot water and unscented Napisan for 3 days, rinsed it out and couldn't smell a thing.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

The new blue fermenter I bought from Bunnings last week had a sticker over a sticker on it. I peeled back the top sticker and underneath was a Super Cheap Auto sticker. I just looked on their website and they sell them for $25 as opposed to $16 at Bunnings. Useless info I know.

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You would have to wonder if you got one for $25 at Supacheeeep and under its sticker was a bunnings sticker...

 

[QldKev]

Buy em at Bunnings and take em back to Supercheap for refunds

 

[Batz]

Blue = water
Red = Petrol
Yellow/Black = Diesel
Green = 2 stroke
White = Beer

 

[Bribie G]

Blue = water
Red = Petrol
Yellow/Black = Diesel
Green = 2 stroke
White = Beer

Stainless 304 conical = Next Week

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[H0U5ECAT]

Isn't bunnings only supplying the water barrels in blue now?

I only went down there a couple of weeks ago to pick up the round ones. Square and round were blue

 

[Mattrox]

I love how on the features it says "can be used for homebrewing".

 

[Forever Wort]

Further proof of the expansion of the hobby.

 

[TheWiggman]

I did a brew for a mate on the weekend and he came back with a yellow 20l container. I said "so they've got them in other colours now?", "no, this one's a fuel one and I figured it'd be alright". He then said the blue ones were there as well.

I sent him back to change over. For interest's sake, does anyone know if the fuel containers would be appropriate? I figured it would have some less human-friendly chemicals in it to make it hydrocarbon tolerant and would hate for it to leech flavours.

 

[Bribie G]

Anyone old enough will remember that the original 1970s Brigalow etc beer starter kits came with a black fermenting drum. Still in use last time I was at Bacchus Brewing when they were a Brew on Premises outfit so still available on the market I'd guess.

 

[user 25501]

Only use the yellow ones for high gravity swill.

 

[Vini2ton]

Neck-oil. Yellow.

 

[brzt6060]

Been trying to find these in WA, took a while but I managed to find it on the website (now the joy of trying to find it in store):
25L - http://www.bunnings.com.au/venture-bmw-25l-blue-tint-wide-mouth-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240533
30L - http://www.bunnings.com.au/venture-bmw-30l-blue-tint-wide-mouth-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240534

Other items of interest I found at bunnings:
[SIZE=11pt]http://www.bunnings.com.au/maxipail-20l-plastic-pail-with-lid_p4475875[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Or this if you wanted to do smaller batches for testing?[/SIZE]
http://www.bunnings.com.au/bucket-plastic-bmw-9-6l-rnd-w-lid-colored-007285_p4460227

[SIZE=11pt]Found these ones as well but they are a bit more pricey...[/SIZE]
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/products/SCA-Carry-Can-W-Mouth-Water-25L.aspx?pid=341458#Cross
http://www.bcf.com.au/online-store/products/Willow-Camper-Can-with-Tap-25L.aspx?pid=114960#Cross


Any one in WA found a cheap solution or tried getting SCA / BCF to price match?


On a side note does anyone else find they go into bunnings for a cheap items and end up search for 40+ minutes for it and then come out $200 worse off.

 

[Wilkensone]

Been trying to find these in WA, took a while but I managed to find it on the website (now the joy of trying to find it in store):
25L - http://www.bunnings.com.au/venture-bmw-25l-blue-tint-wide-mouth-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240533
30L - http://www.bunnings.com.au/venture-bmw-30l-blue-tint-wide-mouth-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240534

Other items of interest I found at bunnings:
[SIZE=11pt]http://www.bunnings.com.au/maxipail-20l-plastic-pail-with-lid_p4475875[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Or this if you wanted to do smaller batches for testing?[/SIZE]
http://www.bunnings.com.au/bucket-plastic-bmw-9-6l-rnd-w-lid-colored-007285_p4460227

[SIZE=11pt]Found these ones as well but they are a bit more pricey...[/SIZE]
http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/products/SCA-Carry-Can-W-Mouth-Water-25L.aspx?pid=341458#Cross
http://www.bcf.com.au/online-store/products/Willow-Camper-Can-with-Tap-25L.aspx?pid=114960#Cross


Any one in WA found a cheap solution or tried getting SCA / BCF to price match?


On a side note does anyone else find they go into bunnings for a cheap items and end up search for 40+ minutes for it and then come out $200 worse off.

I picked up the 30l ones about 2 weeks ago mate so they are around. Best thing I found is that you call up your local store and ask them to search for stores around you to see who has stock which they did for me. If you give them the I/N number which is on the website it makes it much easier.. also they are kept where the eskys are if you are having trouble finding them.

 

[Alex.Tas]

As an aside, anyone worrying about the odour of these when they are new, I filled mine with hot water and unscented Napisan for 3 days, rinsed it out and couldn't smell a thing.

Great to know. i've been wondering how to get rid of this for the last few days. They smell like absolute ****.
I filled my new cube the other day a few times with boiling water and left it for a while.
still smelt like plastic and the cooled water from the cube tasted like water that had been left in a car for a few days in the sun.
I've done a bit of reading and there is (not surprisingly) a great deal of contradictory information on how to get rid of the bad taste.

Unfortunately i was too excited about doing my first AG batch on the weekend, and decided the excitement of getting into AG was worth risking a little plastic taste (from the nochill cube) in my maiden batch. Dunno how it tastes yet as its still in the cube. hopefully will drop it into the fermenter on thurs/friday and give it a taste.
fingers crossed.

 

[Forever Wort]

In my experience the foul smell from the Bunnings fermenters does not translate into a foul taste. With all my Bunnings drums I've just boiled two litres of water and swirled it around for five minutes with the lid on before putting down a batch. No problems, great tasting beer.

 

[Alex.Tas]

In my experience the foul smell from the Bunnings fermenters does not translate into a foul taste. With all my Bunnings drums I've just boiled two litres of water and swirled it around for five minutes with the lid on before putting down a batch. No problems, great tasting beer.

Awesome. That's good to know.
The water I tasted coming out of them was pretty bad though. Time will tell I guess

 

[mrsupraboy]

Awesome. That's good to know.
The water I tasted coming out of them was pretty bad though. Time will tell I guess

I didn't even bother doing that and I cubbed with the bunnings cubes that are right next to the fermenter and no bad tastes