Just thought I'd share my latest project. I bought these Brew Buckets shortly after they were released. While it was nice to have stainless fermenters with a drain valve/dip tube, they fall well short of the benefits of a true conical fermenter (mostly the ability to drain/harvest yeast). I finally pulled the trigger and had a friend of my son cut the tip of the cone out and weld in a tri-clover fitting. It made me nervous as the stainless in these buckets is very thin, but he did a fantastic job. I then picked up some 1 1/4" aluminum square stock to cut some extra long legs. I added plastic feet and the new legs slipped on so snugly that I didn't even need to add any fasteners to hold them in place. I plan to add some silver silicone caulking around the top of the legs to keep water or beer from running down inside. After adding tri-clover 90's and butterfly valves, these babies are essentially 6 1/2 gal conicals. I also added an extra hole to the lids and added stainless thermowells from Brewers Hardware for better temp control with the STC-1000+ controller. I made the legs different to stagger the height so they can sit slightly closer together. They just barely squeeze into my GDM-10 fermentation fridges together. I just brewed the first batch Sunday to ferment in these. It was an 11 gal batch of session IPA that was split and pitched with 2 different yeasts.
Here's some pics...
Here's some pics...
I may have to look into this for both of my BrewBuckets.
