plumber
Well-Known Member
Is there any difference between a Better Bottle and a plastic water cooler bottle? They are both supposed to be food grade, anyone know if a water cooler bottle can be used?
Ans so the great debate begins again.
Search this out, there are 1000's of post on the subject.
Tim
If the truth be told, I am about to secodary my Belgium Holiday brew in a <gasp on> #7 <gasp off> water bottle. IT will be in there for 2-4 weeks the into the bottles. It really cant be any worse then letting it sit in a primary ale pail for a month that is not air tight.
can it?
Tim
Look up Bisphenol A and you will get a slue of research on google.
Revvy - you posted while I was typing, and I really agree with most all that you have stated. As far as being tarred an featherd, if it were anyother month than AUG, I would have a 6.g gal wide mouth glass carboy purchased. But, I have 4 kids, 2 + SWMBO birthdays in AUG, and school starts up so cloths and supplies....ahhh the joys of parenthood. I am really gonna try to get the BB set-up Like This One.
You know I was only kidding about the tar and feathering, I hope.
It's very hard to find #1 water bottles though. I deliver to grocery stores and there's only one store that I go to that has #1 bottles. I got them for free. All the rest are #7 bottles which are typical. I do have one #7 bottle that I've used as a primary but only because the others were busy at the time.
The 4 gallon water jugs from Sam's Club are PET (recycle #1). While they're small, I just split a 5.5 gallon batch between two of them. It's actually kind of fun because I can use a different yeast strain in each and compare results.
You know the comment you replied to was 3 years old? As the industry is shifting to #1 from #7 their common everywhere now while three years ago not so much. Three years ago I checked Sam's Lowes, Hobe Sepot, etc and they were all #7. Three years ago the company that delivers water cooler bottles to the company where I work had all #7. They started replacing their inventory I'm guessing about 20% a year because now about 60% of the bottles are #1.
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