What do you use as a bottling bucket? If I am only using it to add the priming sugar and the beer to be bottled, does it have to be a food grade container, or can it be one of those $5 ones from Home Depot? Thanks for your input!
Jason
Jason
wop31 said:Look at the bottom of the bucket at home depot if it has a triangle with a 2 in it, All the ones i have seen at the hardware store did, it IS food grade. That is where i bought mine, screw paying 20 dollars at the LHBS.
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GaryA said:It is to add the priming sugar without stirring up any trub.
If you came over to my house and I offered you a drink of water out of a Home Depot bucket would you drink it?
Movinfr8 said:Yeah, but then I drink out of the garden hose, too!
Judd said:Spigots are over-rated, in my opinion. What's wrong with just using a siphon hose, I ask? What's wrong with it? Actually, now that I think of it, what are the advantages? I've only ever used my primary fermenter bucket, and a siphon hose/racking cane. Is it easier/cleaner to have a spigot?
malkore said:You have FAR more control over the flow than with a siphon line. You can regulate flow at the spigot so you don't fill bottles too quickly. fast filling with some wands does froth up the beer, which means you aerated it, which means it may become oxidized.
frankly I just find it a lot easier. No racking cane to slide around, and since you just racked it to the bottling bucket, there is NO TRUB in the bottom, so you don't have to worry about your racking cane sliding around and sucking up a bunch of yeast, from primary or secondary.
DaveGerard said:What sized hole do you have to drill to use those spigots? I have a brew bucket without one, that I would like to drill into to put the spigot on so I can have more versatility out of each bucket, is it 3/4" or 1"?
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