Bottling bucket as a second primary?

[sonofgrok]

I read all the posts I could find on using a bottling bucket as a primary but most seemed to be questions about drilling spiggots into primary buckets etc.

I just got in my 6 gallon bottling bucket with the intention of using it to bottle my first mead after its time in the secondary (It is currently in the primary bucket). However the bucket that came in was WAY nicer than I was expecting. It has a nice spigot but it also has a nice rubber gasket sealed lid with a rubber sealed airlock hole in it.

Does anyone see anything wrong with starting another primary in this bucket? It will be done with the primary and moved to a secondary in a carboy before the other secondary is ready to bottle so I can have it empty and clean by bottling time. Or am I just getting brewhappy?

I have:
3 carboys (currently empty).
1 6 gallon primary bucket (currently doing a primary on my first mead (which smells delicious by the way) which will be moved to a carboy next Wednesday)
1 6 gallon bottling spigot bucket with all the similar equipment to a primary bucket as described.
4 airlocks

I am thinking that by using this method, I can speed up filling my carboys with delicious nectar by close to 3 weeks.
1 watermelon mead (Nordic Nectar)
1 blueberry mead (Blue Viking)
1 braggot (Viking Braggart Braggot)
(not to be confused with 1 whiskey one shot and one beer) :rockin:

 

[Ace_Club]

As long as proper sanitation techniques are followed, there is nothing wrong with that plan.

 

[rifraf]

I do it all the time, just be sure to really clean that spigot afterwards.

 

[menerdari]

You can, or you can do like me and just go buy another primary bucket, (like I did this morning)
Someone stop me, I have gone overboard

 

[david_42]

Not a problem, but you will have to take the spigot apart and clean it each time. And don't over-tighten when you put it back together. I put some water in the bucket and tighten until the dripping stops, no more.

 

[amandabab]

I just got in my 6 gallon bottling bucket with the intention of using it to bottle my first mead after its time in the secondary (It is currently in the primary bucket). However the bucket that came in was WAY nicer than I was expecting. It has a nice spigot but it also has a nice rubber gasket sealed lid with a rubber sealed airlock hole in it.

It's a 6 gallon bucket fermentor with a spigot and labeled as a bottling bucket.
Use it. just make sure the spigot isn't positioned so it hangs below the bottom, and isn't stressed when the bucketed is sitting flat and has 40lbs of liquid in it.

 

[sonofgrok]

Post, go take a piss, return, read more than 5 replies. I love this forum

You guys rock. Thanks!