Homemade Commercial Style Fermentation Bucket?

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Trenchant

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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.
 
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Just a heads up on what is out there.

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Enjoy! Carl.
 
I've always found the 6.5 gallon bucket to be extremely convenient.

Cutting holes and attaching things that will need to be cleaned and sanitized later seems less convenient.

I'm not saying a conical would be bad, or that it wouldn't be neat, but for ease of use, a bucket (with only the big hole in the top) is pretty slick.
 
How would you feel about drilling these for a second smaller ball valve for removing samples or liquid above the cake?
 
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