Would you ferment in this?

[Beertard]

I've got one of those bunnings 15l ones for pre boiled and cooled top up water on brew day and the damn tap doesnt tighten and it leaks, its fine with the bung in the hole though so just check the tap tightens in the threads.

 

[Nizmoose]

This is just a water bottle Haha so no tap or bung

 

[superstock]

My LHBS carries bored bungs that fit these for an airlock.

 

[Nizmoose]

My LHBS carries bored bungs that fit these for an airlock.

Thats heaps good, an airlock shouldn'r be too much trouble for me and at the end of the day considering I ferment for three weeks regardless it not even completely compulsory but a tap, now a tap would be awesome, Im sure it'd be do-able how easily though is the question. If it was easy enough these would make wicked little fermenters although for this batch I'm thinking about siphoning into my big fermenter (providing I haven't started a large batch) which I can use as a bottling bucket and bulk priming for the first time, we'll see what happens.

 

[gsouth82]

Clear PET, BPA free. From Office Works, inc 12 litres water. $9-99. Carboy style, 50mm neck, no tap, no handle.
230mm diameter -- I can fit 4 of these on one shelf in my fridge.

I use one of these to fill my fermenter up with tap water when making a batch.

 

[superstock]

Thats heaps good, an airlock shouldn'r be too much trouble for me and at the end of the day considering I ferment for three weeks regardless it not even completely compulsory but a tap, now a tap would be awesome, Im sure it'd be do-able how easily though is the question. If it was easy enough these would make wicked little fermenters although for this batch I'm thinking about siphoning into my big fermenter (providing I haven't started a large batch) which I can use as a bottling bucket and bulk priming for the first time, we'll see what happens.

I've gone off taps a bit, with cleaning, harbouring nasties, leaking etc. I just use a racking cane.
Just buy another one to use as a secondary/bottling bucket. Then buy another and another until you have 4 (which fit on one shelf of my fridge) giving you more useable room in the fridge and how easy is it to split batches to try different additions, different yeasts etc.

 

[Nizmoose]

I've gone off taps a bit, with cleaning, harbouring nasties, leaking etc. I just use a racking cane.
Just buy another one to use as a secondary/bottling bucket. Then buy another and another until you have 4 (which fit on one shelf of my fridge) giving you more useable room in the fridge and how easy is it to split batches to try different additions, different yeasts etc.

Yeah I can definitely see me buying more of these to have lots of cool different brews all going, I might have to just get a racking cane and siphon, less screwing around at the end of the day, how much would a racking cane and auto siphon cost together?

I'll definitely still be making big batches in my brand new 30L fermenter but I'll aim to put more tried and tested and sessionable brews in that one

 

[shacked]

I was inspired by this thread so I got one of the 10L jerry cans from bunnings. Added a few bits from the LHBS and I'm doing a small batch of ginger beer (so my other fermenters don't forevermore smell like ginger).

Cheers guys!!

 

[Nizmoose]

I brewed my first batch in the small fermenter today as well! Drilled a hole in the lid and used rubber bands as rubber gromits, cheapest fermenter ever! Looks good as well I reckon, beats a glass carboy.

 

[brando]

How about a 20L maxipail from Bunnings for $14 or 11L for $10?

Food grade.

Just use cling wrap for lid (or modify the lid that comes with it).

Very easy to clean.

Siphon the beer out.

http://www.bunnings.com.au/maxipail-20l-plastic-pail-with-lid_p4475875

 

[Nizmoose]

The container I got is sturdy, BPA free, reusable came with 10L of spring water and cost 9.90 cap seals it off perfectly and you can see your yeasties at work

EDIT: 12L of spring water *

 

[brando]

The container I got is sturdy, BPA free, reusable came with 10L of spring water and cost 9.90 cap seals it off perfectly and you can see your yeasties at work

EDIT: 12L of spring water *

What siphoning set up did you go with? Anything special or just a length of hose?

I'm tossing up between one of those SS jiggle siphons and the Easy Siphon. I guess the jiggle jobbie might disrupt the yeast cake.

 

[Nizmoose]

Haven't bought a siphoning set up yet, to get my dry extract in I had to make a paper funnel lol and to get my wort in I had to be ballsy as and tip from the pot into a funnel using a knife to guide the liquid in as the funnel was tiny lol, I will however have a siphon by the time bottling day comes around. I'm just going to go with the auto siphon option, seems like a good investment, auto siphon or starter or whatever it's called and a racking cane and that way I can get the brew out and into my 30L fermenter for my first ever bulk prime

 

[superstock]

Racking cane, sold as Easy Syphon by my LHBS for $18, plus 1.5m of clear silicone 10mm tube. It's basically a pump and syphon combined. I then attach a Brigalow bottling wand to the other end of the tube. Easiest way to bottle and just pull the end off the bottling wand to transfer FV to FV.
Dissolve your dry components in your wort.
Buy a bigger funnel.

 

[lael]

I've often wondered about fermenting in neverfail bottles. They look so sturdy and clear. Be great to see the yeast at work.

 

[Nizmoose]

I've often wondered about fermenting in neverfail bottles. They look so sturdy and clear. Be great to see the yeast at work.

I was going to use these but they have BPA so not the best option, what I got is exactly the same but safe

 

[Nizmoose]

Racking cane, sold as Easy Syphon by my LHBS for $18, plus 1.5m of clear silicone 10mm tube. It's basically a pump and syphon combined. I then attach a Brigalow bottling wand to the other end of the tube. Easiest way to bottle and just pull the end off the bottling wand to transfer FV to FV.
Dissolve your dry components in your wort.
Buy a bigger funnel.

Awesome I'll do that, the paper funnel and that was purely me being unprepared Haha it wasn't my ideal method , I do find it easier to just dissolve enough in the pot to get the gravity right and do the rest in the fermenter, can give the fermenter a good shake and get it all dissolved in seconds, if I had a pot bigger than 6L I'd probably dissolve in the wort.

 

[superstock]

A great inveatment is the Big W 19L stock pot for $19. Having one leads you into BIAB.

 

[shaunous]

A great inveatment is the Big W 19L stock pot for $19. Having one leads you into BIAB.

So is the 9L for $9, handy to have both in the brew shed and kitchen.

 

[n87]

I've often wondered about fermenting in neverfail bottles. They look so sturdy and clear. Be great to see the yeast at work.

you will need to find one of the old ones with the 1 in the triangle, not the new ones which have 7