Plastic water jugs as carboys - Page 3

Levers101 · 06-24-2006, 03:58 AM

Nalgene has some 20L carboys in different shapes and sizes, polycarbonate and polyethylene. Has anyone seen them? Like any lab equipment they are expensive, but especially the polycarbonate ones would last forever. You can get them with handles (I think the handles are solid not hollow like a milk jug) and with spigots at the bottom.

**Bernie Brewer** · 06-24-2006, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Cheesefood

I'm going to try them as secondaries, but not as primaries. There's not enough room for the krauesen. If you did 3 gallon batches, you'd be fine.

There's plenty of room for a 5 gallon batch. I use my 5 gallon carboy(glass) as a primary all the time. That's what blowoff tubes are for. I actually did buy a 6.5 gal carboy in order to stop using the tube, and found that it is harder to clean than the 5-er for some reason. I went back to the 5-er and only use the 6.5 gal if I have more than one batch going at a time.

sudsmonkey · 06-25-2006, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Sephro

Yes everyone can make beer in whatever... But if you care enough to go online and post a question... I think you want to avoid the learning steps many of us have made. So sure you can brew in your dirty socks if you want but if you want to skip the batches of beer that might not be what they could given the equipment at hand, take the advice given here.

But if you just want to get started... by all means brew with what you've got! what do all the books say?
Relax... have something something

You know, I didn't take into consideration that he might not want to follow the learning curve. Didn't mean to give that impression. The point I was making is that if you can get your hands on a water bottle for nothing, by all means, use it until you can do better. Start small and upgrade as you can. Think I'll join you in a something something...

CliffMongoloid · 03-12-2012, 02:01 AM

So a water jug that has number 1 on it is fine to use?