SleepyCreekBrews
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Hey Yall,
I recently bought one of these , and I thought I'd do a little review for other brewers .
Here's the link at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KSVJ4E4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
So, the fermenter is 80 liters and comes from Poland by an outfit called Domowybrowarek. It arrived in about 2 weeks via USPS Priority, which was pretty quick considering it sat in US customs in NY for 6 days. It came in a single box with the fermenter inside the the (upside-down) stand with the valves (packaged in a soft fabric bag) inside the vessel . No damage.
I took 1 look at the stand, and thought to myself "no way" . I don't feel you can make a stable stand to hold 150 pounds of wort with 3 legs and 3 round hoops.
I bolted it to a plywood dolly platform, removed the lower hoop and riveted 6 triangulating braces to the lower portion of the structure. I also lowered the mid hoop 4 inches to get the CG lower, and have it fit inside my fermenting enclosure.
The only thing I don't like about the vessel is the lid is hollow inside. If you load a really big batch into the fermenter and end up with a big krausen, it will flow inside the hollow lid and that will be a PITA to clean out. I doubt that will happen sticking with 15 gallon batches tho. There was a review on Amazon where the guys stripped the copper threaded inserts out of the vessel when trying to tighten the valves. I had no such trouble, but you definitely don't want to get aggressive with the pipe wrench when installing the valves.
Here it is in the brewery:
Also, a word of advise, be careful when you get ready to dump some of the yeast after primary is finished, that 1" diameter ball valve can facilitate some high flow rates.
Hope this helps
I recently bought one of these , and I thought I'd do a little review for other brewers .
Here's the link at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KSVJ4E4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
So, the fermenter is 80 liters and comes from Poland by an outfit called Domowybrowarek. It arrived in about 2 weeks via USPS Priority, which was pretty quick considering it sat in US customs in NY for 6 days. It came in a single box with the fermenter inside the the (upside-down) stand with the valves (packaged in a soft fabric bag) inside the vessel . No damage.
I took 1 look at the stand, and thought to myself "no way" . I don't feel you can make a stable stand to hold 150 pounds of wort with 3 legs and 3 round hoops.
I bolted it to a plywood dolly platform, removed the lower hoop and riveted 6 triangulating braces to the lower portion of the structure. I also lowered the mid hoop 4 inches to get the CG lower, and have it fit inside my fermenting enclosure.
The only thing I don't like about the vessel is the lid is hollow inside. If you load a really big batch into the fermenter and end up with a big krausen, it will flow inside the hollow lid and that will be a PITA to clean out. I doubt that will happen sticking with 15 gallon batches tho. There was a review on Amazon where the guys stripped the copper threaded inserts out of the vessel when trying to tighten the valves. I had no such trouble, but you definitely don't want to get aggressive with the pipe wrench when installing the valves.
Here it is in the brewery:
Also, a word of advise, be careful when you get ready to dump some of the yeast after primary is finished, that 1" diameter ball valve can facilitate some high flow rates.
Hope this helps
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