Ferment in bottling bucket?

Eskimo Spy said:

The bucket has been rinsed and rinsed, and it's been sitting in my closet for about 4 weeks, and it still has that smell. I'll try a good soak with iodophor while I'm brewing to see if it clears out.

And with this brew, I move it to a secondary to add some apricot, it's a Magic Hat #9 clone, so that's how I would get it out of the bottling bucket and then back into it.

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Revvy said:

Go out and buy a new fermentor, or a new bottling bucket...if you ferment in your bottling bucket, then what will you rack it to in order to bottle?

If you do decide to ferment in something with a spigot, I would spray the spigot thoroughly with sanitizer, spray a sandwhich baggy with more sanitizer and rubberband it to the spigot...

OH and make sure your spigot is tight before you ferment in it..someone on here posted once that their spigot wasn't tight, and most of the beer leaked out over the 3-4 weeks it was fermenting in the basement.

If your primary smells like oxyclen you need to rinse it thoroughly still....also I noticed the dilluted starsan seems to neutalize the "scale" from oxyclean that gets on some things, so that might neutralize it as well...

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Eskimo Spy said:

I ended up going with the traditional primary, I used starsan and it knocked it out (I said iodophor earlier, but I meant starsan!) Thanks guys, mazzle mazzle, good things.

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