Water and beer/wort have different properties.... Wort is very acidic and would leech from non food grade plastics.... and most of the plastics that hold water are semi porous which would let oxygen in again bad, for $3 more get a proper bucket
i hadn't thought of the leaching, but doubt they would put potable water in anything but food grade plastic
and aluminum causes cancer or alzheimer's or turns your man parts into dust
Coke & Pepsi are EXTREMELY acidic, and they come in plastic containers
you can buy macro brews in plastic containers
so, plastic + acid or plastic + alcohol is safe enough
unionrdr said:I built a bottling bucket with spigot for $13 from a 7+G pail. I think you could've saved yourself the worry & just bought an ale pail or the like.
Has anyone ever used one of those Primo brand, 5 gallon water jugs from Wally World as a fermenter? I just picked one up full of water for 11$! Not sure if its safe, but for 11$ it's worth the research....
Wort is very acidic and would leech from non food grade plastics
beaksnbeer said:I been using them for years, I don't long term store but a couple of weeks is ok. I have 3 that are actually are made by better bottle corp.
All or most water that is put into those 5 gallon jugs is RO. If you can, do a little reading up on how acidic RO is/can be. I'm not sure the acidity would be the cause of leeching.
You'll typically see RO in the 6's. Yes it's towards the acidic side, but consider that beer typically finishes in the 4's.
One of the proponents of leaching is the acidic nature of a liquid. It's also time and temp dependent. I'm not an expert on all of this, but with a pH of 6.0, that will not be as aggressive as a liquid at 3.0.
Beeksbeer said he's been using them for a couple of weeks at a time, and not for long storge. That may be fine, but who knows? The only way to really find out is too take a sample of the wort after fermentaion and run it through a LCMS machine, but who's got one of those to do that?
I guess using your best judgement to err on the side of caution is always the best thing to do.
Well enough, who truly knows what is leached out of any of the plastics that homebrew comes in contact with the only product that I have a verified proof is Bev-seal ultra. All plastics to be verified would have to be tested.
The fact that better bottle sells a product for fermenting and they state that their products are BpA free is as good as any plastic bucket (many of which are only chemical leeching free for DRY storage.
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