At the suggestion of other forum members I've started to buy bulk grain so that I could save some money on my beers and make a few less trips to the LHBS and a few less orders online. I read in another thread that people were using Lowes and Home Depot buckets so I went out and bought these:
Encore Plastics 5-Gallon Food Grade Plastic Bucket: $3.97
Encore Plastics 5-Gallon Plastic Bucket Lid: $7.25
I had a 55 pound sack and two of these buckets weren't enough to hold all of the grain. I got roughly 45 pounds of grain in the buckets and could probably finagle a few more in if I tried.
Just some advice for putting it together. The lids come in two parts, a collar and a screw-off center. Unscrew the collar from the center piece and put the collar on the bucket by itself. It will be a tight fit, but you can flip the bucket over and sit on it to help pop it in place. After that you just screw the lid on. It might sound ridiculous but nobody told me how annoying it would be to put these lids on haha. Hopefully this extra info helps somebody out who's looking for grain storage too.
Encore Plastics 5-Gallon Food Grade Plastic Bucket: $3.97
Encore Plastics 5-Gallon Plastic Bucket Lid: $7.25
I had a 55 pound sack and two of these buckets weren't enough to hold all of the grain. I got roughly 45 pounds of grain in the buckets and could probably finagle a few more in if I tried.
Just some advice for putting it together. The lids come in two parts, a collar and a screw-off center. Unscrew the collar from the center piece and put the collar on the bucket by itself. It will be a tight fit, but you can flip the bucket over and sit on it to help pop it in place. After that you just screw the lid on. It might sound ridiculous but nobody told me how annoying it would be to put these lids on haha. Hopefully this extra info helps somebody out who's looking for grain storage too.