Trenchant
Well-Known Member
I have beer fermentating in a glass carboy primary right now and I'm just thinking about how much more convenient it would be to have a fermentor like commercial places do.
I don't imagine it would be too hard to cut the bottom off of a bucket and plastic sauder a funnel on the bottom. From there you could attach a simple valve to empty out a fermenting bucket from the bottom.
So when you wanted to go to secondary fermentation you would simply put a waste bucket under the fermenter and open the valve. Then close the valve when clean beer comes out. It would make transfering to a keg that much easier as well.
Actually if you found an oversized funnel and cut a circle out of the bottom of a bucket slighly smaller then the diameter of bucket you would have a lip. The funnel could sit in that lip and then seal it all up by saudering it. that way you would have a lot more guaranteed strength just like replacing floor pans on an older car.
I don't imagine it would be too hard to cut the bottom off of a bucket and plastic sauder a funnel on the bottom. From there you could attach a simple valve to empty out a fermenting bucket from the bottom.
So when you wanted to go to secondary fermentation you would simply put a waste bucket under the fermenter and open the valve. Then close the valve when clean beer comes out. It would make transfering to a keg that much easier as well.
Actually if you found an oversized funnel and cut a circle out of the bottom of a bucket slighly smaller then the diameter of bucket you would have a lip. The funnel could sit in that lip and then seal it all up by saudering it. that way you would have a lot more guaranteed strength just like replacing floor pans on an older car.