bleme said:I use my 5 gallon water bottles all the time but I only secondary for a week, whether it be on fruit or dry hops.
Mostly I use them to mix and store Star San though.
Do you know the rating of the bottles you worked with? Most of the water bottles I've bought are the ones with a "3" in the triangle. Sparklet's is the only one I've seen that has "7"s. Thanks.jma99 said:I used to work for a very large bottled water company. Those 5 gal carboys will work fine. You would have to leave your beer in one for many, many, MANY months before you would see any oxidization.
The eight or so months I've been brewing, I've kept pre-mixed starsan in a 1gal arrowhead bottle and there's no sign of deterioration. I would assume that the first sign would be hazyness on the inside, but there's nothing.brewguyver said:Had any problems with the star San yet? That stuff will eat through plastic long enough if left to sit. Probably depends on the type though, because the concentrate is stored in a plastic container and seems to be fine.
Revvy said:Sigh. Not the old "Oxygen permeabilty" of plastics nonsense again. That old myth has been broken down to what it really is Propaganda from the glass carboy industry, that most people except gullible noobs, laugh it off.
OMG Revvy!!, thank you SO MUCH! I've been thinking that it sounds ridiculous but trusting what others said about it. PVC is innate until you boil it.
On a side note and funny as hell, but also sad... one of my LHBS owners actually convinced one of his customers that POLLEN, like from a PLANT, can seep through the solid plastic in a better bottle and infect a batch. He then proceeded to sell him a whole new set of better bottles to remedy his "pollen infection" problem. So the point is that if POLLEN can permeate solid PET plastic, the surely Oxygen can....
Well I scored a FREE #1 5gallon water bottle. Not really worried about the whole o2 permeability, due to a better bottle is made of the same damn plastic. I will be getting a glass one for lagering but I only secondary for a week or two at the most for Ales. Thanks.
Bottled water will pick up off flavors very quickly, that's why it has a shelf life. The shelf life for most 5 gal water bottles is at least 6 months, and could be up to a year.
Now, go brew some beer.......
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