Any downside to ferminting 5g in 7.9 bucket?

[Boston Brewer]

I was thinking about getting one of these from Northern Brewer for extract brewing...any potential problems with using 5g batch in a bucket of this size? Too much head space?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

 

[Jaybird]

Thats what most of us use no problems thust far
JJ

 

[LouT]

I use one like that for my wine kits, and have tried to avoid using it on beer to avoid flavor transfers. It's nice, though, wish I had a second one just like it for beer -- it seals up very tightly. I use a fementer bucket I bought in the early 90's for my beers when I'm not doing a hefe -- I use 6.5 gal carboy w/blowoff tube for the hefes.
You really can't go wrong with that pail, it's nice!

 

[Mr Nick]

I was thinking about getting one of these from Northern Brewer for extract brewing...any potential problems with using 5g batch in a bucket of this size?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

Absolutely no problem what so ever.

 

[malkore]

it is preferred to have plenty of headspace in primary.

for secondary, you want as little headspace as possible, since air exposure isn't a good thing once fermentation is mostly finished.

 

[david_42]

Every batch I've done has been in a bucket that size. I have spigots on all of my fermenters.