extract brewing equipment list - Page 2

**RM-MN** · 01-31-2012, 11:15 AM

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The guy I know from the club doesn't use bucket fermenters so I might go for a 6.5 carboy.

You might want to rethink that idea if you read the threads on here about injuries due to broken carboys. The chances that you will break on are small but it only takes once. On the plus side of plastic buckets is that if you have several (they are cheap enough to do that) and have more than one empty at a time (unlikely I know) they can stack for storage, one inside the other. Lets see you do that with carboys.

Voodoo_Child · 01-31-2012, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RM-MN

You might want to rethink that idea if you read the threads on here about injuries due to broken carboys. The chances that you will break on are small but it only takes once. On the plus side of plastic buckets is that if you have several (they are cheap enough to do that) and have more than one empty at a time (unlikely I know) they can stack for storage, one inside the other. Lets see you do that with carboys.

I have read about the horrendous accidents but I think there is a chance of injury in every hobby, or activity for that matter. I plan on keeping them in milk crates with blankets acting as a buffer. I like the cool factor of seeing the fermentation and I have thought about Better Bottles but I'm not sure about scratches in the plastic harboring nasties. You do have a good point about stacking the buckets since I'm tight on space and buckets are dirt cheap.
I'll ask around at my homebrew club's brew day this Saturday and see what the consensus is.

**unionrdr** · 01-31-2012, 09:36 PM

I don't stack my buckets like that. Too easy to scratch them on the inside.