Lowes food grade buckets

I know there has been some discussion about the grey lowes buckets, but I was there today and they have white ones, which are made by a company in Ohio, and the Lowes product description says "food grade". The bottom of the bucket says "HDPE". 5 gallons is too small for a primary fermenter, but it could make a good bottle bucket. They are $4, and they have lids with orings, but I'm pretty sure the lids cost extra.

Yup, they're food grade, the lids are sold separately, and they're not only good for bottling buckets (takes minutes to drill for a faucet) they're a cheap sanitation bucket for brew days...

Cheers!

i use them for bottling buckets, they're the perfect size.

I just picked up two 5 gal clear plastic, labeled food grade, graduated with gallons/quarts/liters at home depot. $5 each. Score!

i use mine for sanitation on brew days, and usually for a liquid bucket for blow off tubes.. i was planning on cutting a hole in the lid for the blowoff tube to push into, but been too lazy to do that yet

got the same thing at Ace Hardware. They do stain with iodine solution but they make great secondary fermenter and are good for 4 gallon batches.

Rock Chalk

Chris

Dirty said:

got the same thing at Ace Hardware. They do stain with iodine solution but they make great secondary fermenter and are good for 4 gallon batches.

Rock Chalk

Chris

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Heck, pretty much anything other than SS will stain from Iodophor But you can remove that tint with an extended soak in a weak bleach solution. BT/DT...

Cheers!

Very cool! I need to get an extra sanitation bucket that I can leave prepared starsan in, this is perfect.

day_trippr said:

Heck, pretty much anything other than SS will stain from Iodophor But you can remove that tint with an extended soak in a weak bleach solution. BT/DT...

Cheers!

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Just bottled a pale ale i used the buck as a secondary for and the stain is gone.

Think i should us this as justification to brew more "Babe, I need to get the iodine stain out of my bucket"

Rock Chalk

Chris

Sounds good for storing grains. How much 2-row fits in a 5 gal bucket? I've not had an opportunity for a group buy on grains, but a new store opened in town (Melbourne. FL) and I'm hoping they might give a price break for a 50 lb bag.

Non beer idea but I use these buckets as brining buckets as well. They also work great as soak buckets for lable removal.

been using These can do 2 10gal batches and it fits in the lager fermenter

tarponteaser said:

Sounds good for storing grains. How much 2-row fits in a 5 gal bucket? I've not had an opportunity for a group buy on grains, but a new store opened in town (Melbourne. FL) and I'm hoping they might give a price break for a 50 lb bag.

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I fit 25 lbs of grain into one of these 5 gallon buckets. You can also buy a white #2 plastic food grade option from Walmart for $4 including the lid. These are in the paint dept and are great for storing grain. I also use these buckets fro fermenting 3-4 gallon size batches. Now that i do all grain I might make 8 gallons total and split these into 2 different buckets to try different yeast strains or have one to btoole and one to keg.

They now sale white buckets that are food grade i would only use white

thedude00 said:

They now sale white buckets that are food grade i would only use white

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I thought we were taking about white food grade buckets.
Lowes has had white buckets for at least a year now...

Cheers!