Didn't want to steal the better bottle thread, but I was at Lowe's this weekend and noticed they sell 5 gallon bottled water for about $12. The bottle looks an awful lot like a Better Bottle. Any reason that you couldn't use this as a secondary?
casebrew said:...
Do you think this site needs a 'sticky' thread- "Homebrew Myths Busted" where we can cover plastics, aluminum, table sugar,.... Actual, first hand experiences only?
casebrew said:Here's an intreresting link I found : http://www.alphap.com/basics/compare.html
With an interesting chart.
Check the right hand column, "recycle numbers". The O2 column is oxygen transmisiliby, lower is better.
Some stuff I noticed: #7 bottles pass only 1/2 as much as #1 bottles. So #7 is TWICE AS GOOD FOR BEER, as far as staling goes. #2, as in bucket fermenters, pass 53 times as much oxygen as a #1 bottle. So #7 plastic would be 100 times better than a plastic bucket. I'll repeat that:
#7 PLASTIC IS TWICE AS GOOD AS #1 PLASTIC.
#7 PLASTIC IS 100 TIMES BETTER THAN A PLASTIC BUCKET.
So, if a plastic #2 bucket is just fine, then it just don't matter, does it?
Note also the CO2 transmissability column, that each of those plastics pass CO2 at 4 to 7 times the speeed of oxygen. Your beer will go flat before it goes stale, in any kind of plastic.
Pardon me while I go post this as it's own thread
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