Plastic vs Glass Primary - yeah I know old topic

cford1 said:

You said you cleaned it. Did you sanitize it too? If not give that a try and maybe it'll clear up a little bit.

I've always used a bucket for primary and it does really smell when I am done.

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barthautala said:

The problem is, it still smells like beer inside. Will this aroma leech out into my next batch of beer? Should I be worried about this during primary fermentation?

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jds said:

Personally, I don't worry if my beer makes my beer smell like beer, but that's just me.

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barthautala said:

I see what youre saying. But the point, I believe, of aromatic hops is to give the beer a certain smell. But if it comes out smelling like the last beer you made then why use aromatic hops at all?

Looks though as if there is no problem at all.

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barthautala said:

So I brewed my first batch and Im waiting on the secondary process to be complete. I cleaned out my primary bucket last night made it all nice and new looking.

The problem is, it still smells like beer inside. Will this aroma leech out into my next batch of beer? Should I be worried about this during primary fermentation?

Im extremely tempted to go pick up a 6.5 gallon acid carboy to do any further beer batches based solely on the smell of my plastic bucket.

Thoughts?

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BarleyWater said:

There's one simple, sure fire solution to your problem... don't put your head in the bucket.

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barthautala said:

So I brewed my first batch and Im waiting on the secondary process to be complete. I cleaned out my primary bucket last night made it all nice and new looking.

The problem is, it still smells like beer inside. Will this aroma leech out into my next batch of beer? Should I be worried about this during primary fermentation?

Im extremely tempted to go pick up a 6.5 gallon acid carboy to do any further beer batches based solely on the smell of my plastic bucket.

Thoughts?

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rico567 said:

My thought is that my primary buckets (all I brew in) also get stained and smell like hops / beer. I tried giving one the Oxi-Clean treatment once. It wiped out the stain.....but the stain came right back. It reduced the smell, but then I got to thinking that the stain isn't really going to hurt anything, and unless the yeast is offended by it, why worry? Then I thought about the smell: bucket smell = hops & beer; beer smell = hops & beer. So....why should I worry about that, either?
Now I just clean the buckets with dish detergent and a sponge, and sanitize with Star San, don't worry a whole lot about stains or smells.

Or, as it was stated much more concisely in an earlier post by "jds,": "Personally, I don't worry if my beer makes my beer smell like beer, but that's just me."

Bravo.

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