Any benefit to a t-shirt over the primary / secondary buckets?

[ezatnova]

Other than simply giving my primary and secondary plastic buckets a sweet new look, I figured that the t-shirt would help filter out any UV light cast from the basement florescent lighting. I am guessing this is overkill, given the milky white color of the bucket plastic which probably filters most of it, and the short duration that those lights are ever on down there, when the wife is doing laundry or I'm staring at the beer buckets. Didn't know if it had any merrit though.

 

[ChrisKennedy]

I doubt a dry tshirt will do much of anything when draped over a bucket. There is no worry about light entering your beer in an opaque bucket I think.

Now if you have problems with high ferment temps, you can wet a tshirt and put it over the bucket/carboy, and set it all in a bigger bucket of water. The tshirt will wick water up, and as the water evaporates from the tshirt, it will cool your beer.

 

[Revvy]

Now if you have problems with high ferment temps, you can wet a tshirt and put it over the bucket/carboy, and set it all in a bigger bucket of water. The tshirt will wick water up, and as the water evaporates from the tshirt, it will cool your beer.

Like this...

 

[malkore]

hours and hours under a fluorescent light, and a clear glass carboy can indeed skunk your beer, so the T-shirt is good for carboys.

(Unless you totally love Heinekin)

 

[Arkador]

My beer has attitude and style, I always dress my brew buckets up in Metallica tshirts.

 

[bigzippo]

I use large paper bags. It's cool cause I can write stuff on them

 

[Revvy]

I use large paper bags. It's cool cause I can write stuff on them

We demand pics of your bucket bag drawings......

 

[HippieCrack]

We demand pics of your bucket bag drawings......

+1 :rockin:

 

[ezatnova]

Thanks guys. Good idea about the wicking to keep cool. Luckily my basement stays locked around 63-66 degrees so I think I'm fine there.
Maybe I'll just put a polo shirt on this one and duct tape a blue tooth headset to the side of the bucket, and go for an extra preppy beer.

 

[StunnedMonkey]

T-Shirts? What kind of white trash brewing operation are you running?

I prefer the Barney Stinson approach.

 

[Beer:30]

OMG I can say with no reservation that that is the best use of a tie and jacket that I have ever seen!

 

[ATL]

T-Shirts? What kind of white trash brewing operation are you running?

I prefer the Barney Stinson approach.

you should teach your carboys how to tie a double windsor knot... fat neck tie knot all the way!

and for the record my carboys generally wear my old SIU carbondale hoodies (go dawgs :rockin

 

[mcjake]

T-Shirts? What kind of white trash brewing operation are you running?

I prefer the Barney Stinson approach.

AMAZING SIR!!!!

 

[TrojanMan]

...a double windsor knot...

Protip: No such thing as a "double Windsor knot." It's just a Windsor.
There is, however, such a thing as a half-Windsor.

But my carboys prefer cotton laundry sacks with the drawstring top.