IvanTheTerrible
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Can I use these as fermenters? Primary, at least?
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IvanTheTerrible said:Whats the difference between a 5 gallon glass carboy and these?
IvanTheTerrible said:Damn... the kit I bought came with a 5 gallon carboy.
Can I ferment in the bottling bucket?
It sounds like your kit has one bucket and one carboy. It may very well be that the intent there is to use the bucket, which might be a 6.5 or larger one, as the primary AND the bottling bucket. Do the primary fermentation in the bucket with the lid and an airlock in the hole on top. When that ferm. is done you can rack to the carboy for secondary, where your brew will settle out, and then you should have your bucket nicely cleaned out and available for use as a bottling bucket, where you'll get to use that spigot.IvanTheTerrible said:the lid already has the hole, but the bucket doesnt. Am I supposed to drill the hole myself for bottling?
Will blow-off or beer start oozing out of the spigot hole, or does the blow-off always go up to the top?
If not, then problem solved. I'll do my primary in the bucket...secondary in the carboy, then bottle in the bucket.
Sound good?
ma2brew said:It sounds like your kit has one bucket and one carboy. It may very well be that the intent there is to use the bucket, which might be a 6.5 or larger one, as the primary AND the bottling bucket. Do the primary fermentation in the bucket with the lid and an airlock in the hole on top. When that ferm. is done you can rack to the carboy for secondary, where your brew will settle out, and then you should have your bucket nicely cleaned out and available for use as a bottling bucket, where you'll get to use that spigot.
I must have misread a post above. If your bucket has no holes in the sides, and one in the lid, and it's 6.5 gal, then that's your primary! Most rules here would say to leave your brew in there until the SG is no longer dropping, as in you get the same readings on your hydrometer 2 days in a row, or after a week, whichever is LONGER. If you got a kit then it probably included a racking cane, a kind of hockey stick shaped hard plastic tube, which you attach a hose to (again probably included in your kit) and siphon your beer into the 5 gal carboy, where it sits for a couple more weeks, with an airlock from your kit, so that the remaining yeast settles out of your brew. Then you use your racking cane and hose to bottle your beer, hopefully with a little valve attachment on a piece of hose.IvanTheTerrible said:The bucket is a 6.5, but I think I'm missing something.
I do the primary in the bucket...secondary in the carboy, then bottle in the bucket, but where do I put the spigot. There's no hole on the bucket... Do I have to drill a hole into the bucket? Do I lay the bucket on its side and use the hole on the cover?
ilikestuff said:Or you could drill the hole and screw it on, only takes a couple of seconds. You will find that do-it-yourself projects are an essential part to homebrewing.
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