I have been trying to retire the plastic fermentation buckets, but being a student, I can not justify the price tag of a conical. I have been looking at the Sanke conversion kit to turn a keg into a fermentation vessel, and this seems to be the logical choice for me.
My issue is that I will be doing mostly 5 or 6.5 gallon batches. My kegerator uses 4.8 gallon cornies, and I like to brew enough to rack some off into bottles. Anyway, the ideal keg size for me is the 1/4 (7.75 Gal) barrel "slim" Sanke. Has anyone turned one of these badboys into a fermentation vessel using one of the conversion kits available online? Is this a rare size keg like the 3 gal or 10 gal cornies? I don't get very much brewing related stuff on my local classifieds site (Halifax is relatively small, but still, very little equipment for sale in a city of about 400k+)
Cheers
My issue is that I will be doing mostly 5 or 6.5 gallon batches. My kegerator uses 4.8 gallon cornies, and I like to brew enough to rack some off into bottles. Anyway, the ideal keg size for me is the 1/4 (7.75 Gal) barrel "slim" Sanke. Has anyone turned one of these badboys into a fermentation vessel using one of the conversion kits available online? Is this a rare size keg like the 3 gal or 10 gal cornies? I don't get very much brewing related stuff on my local classifieds site (Halifax is relatively small, but still, very little equipment for sale in a city of about 400k+)
Cheers