deer park water jugs

goinggreen · 07-21-2009, 04:25 AM

Would a 5 gallon deer park water jug be alright to ferment in?

Are there chemicals I need to worry about?

Scut_Monkey · 07-21-2009, 05:55 AM

There are a lot of threads on this throughout the site. I would suggest using the search function for this using "water jug" or something like that. Some people do ferment in them from what I can tell and they are completely food/safe but people worry that they are air permeable and would allow oxidation of the beer. This would cause off flavors in the beer described by people as "cardboard" like. I have no idea how good they actually are for a fermenter.

**Cpt_Kirks** · 07-21-2009, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by goinggreen

Would a 5 gallon deer park water jug be alright to ferment in?

Are there chemicals I need to worry about?

What does the bottom of the jug say?

**Cpt_Kirks** · 07-21-2009, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Cpt_Kirks

What does the bottom of the jug say?

A google search (which also turned up this thread

) indicates their 5 gallon jugs are #1 PETE, which, IIRC, is OK for beer.

Right?

ETA: yeah, #1 PETE jugs are the same plastic as Better Bottles. I need to track a couple of those jugs down.