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Did you get online from plastic-mart? That's where I was looking. If so, what did you end up doing to seal the lid, or did you go a different route?

I'm looking to buy a plastic conical to step my fermentation game up to the next level. Would a 15 gallon conical leave too much head space for a 10 gallon batch? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

that's awesome. So basically, you just used the freezer to cool the ale chamber, and cold water through a radiator, for the lager chamber? I just got an idea.. what if I used the freezer side of my existing fridge for the small batches, and had some cold water, and a pump, in the fridge...

I have seen a lot of fermentation vessels using different kinds of fridges, or freezers, but I haven't been able to find a good, easy, effective, efficient chamber, that doesn't use a fridge. I found a thread that used water cooled fans, but they had the water running through a freezer. Has...

Took your advice and ordered a mini dual stage temperature control off Ebay for $17, and found a thread that walks you through the wiring procedure. Cant wait to start this project!! Oh, and the girl that was gonna sell me that chest freezer.. her boyfriend sold it a few hours before I was...

I am ready to pull the trigger on turning a chest freezer into a controlled fermentation chamber. I am picking up a chest freezer off of craigslist this evening, and just about to order a temperature control. I was looking at the Johnson digital model, but am more than open to suggestions...

I would just like to point out how nice everyone this forum has been so far. Being a newbie, I have a lot of questions, and am very curious and excited about bettering my brewing, and everyone has answered my questions without making me feel like an idiot. That being said.. back to the cold...

lol I guess I was pretty confused, but the fun for me, is learning all these new methods. This seems to be a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. Thanks again for the help.

So, if I understand correctly, unless I am adding something, or want to reuse the yeast, leaving it in primary for the extra 2 weeks or so is not going to hurt anything? I think, regardless, I would want two of these larger conical fermenters - one for primary and one for secondary. I could...

Thank you guys for the info. I will get to work on construction. Another thing - a friend of mine (another beginner homebrewer) were discussing what was the value to racking to secondary as opposed to cleaning out all the yeast that has come to rest, and just starting secondary in the same...

Alright, then what about the other part of the question? How high would I mount the racking valve?

What I had invisioned for the false bottom was to have that as a way to stop the yeast from settling on the bottom, and essentially using the very bottom valve as the racking valve. That way, I figured I could get every drop out of it, and just scoop out the sediment. This idea of two valves...

Back to the original topic, what are the advantages of having both valves?

And then just use it in that state? Again, I have not done any research about this, because I thought it was a bit more detailed, but I can just use the (now mushy) yeast from the previous batch?

My thoughts on the false bottom would be to rack without sucking up sediment. Am I correct in this thinking? Eventually, I will want to save and clean yeast, to reuse, but for right now, I am not ready for that. What would be the advantage to having both of these valves? If I simply wanted...

This may be a beginner question (hense why I use forums), but why do you have two valves? From my understanding, the bottom one allows you to drain out the yeast, to clone, or whatever, and the top one allows you to rack without carrying any sediment over. If that is the case, would one valve...

Did you instal a false bottom in them? What did you use?

You guys are awesome. Spending the money next paycheck.

Has anyone tried using something along these lines?: http://www.plastic-mart.com/product/5814/30-gallon-cone-inductor-tank-fully-draining-infd30-24 They make them in all kinds of sizes, and I know fermentation in plastic is fine, but I was wondering how much use I will get out of this. It...

When I first started (extract), I got a 5 gallon boil pot. This was OK, because I was splitting kits, in experimentation, but I quickly learned that I was not happy with how small it was, and would have to upgrade to do full kits. Luckily, a friend of mine, and I have been brewing together, so...