Hello
Live in a small apartment and I drive the wife crazy with my brewing. I don't have a lot of storage space but I do have a walk-in closet that helps. I was contemplating buying a conical fermenter that I could hang on the wall. My beer was tasting so much better and was much clearer when I secondary fermented it. I had made a mistake when I put a tap on my original tapping bucket and put the tap up too high ( top of tap is just above the 5 liter mark on a 25 liter bucket, about 5 gallons) and have to tilt the bucket to bottle those last couple of liters. After looking at smaller conical fermenters I decided to use this bucket. When I tapped it over to the secondary bucket I left almost all the sediment behind. I washed it and re-used the yeast. The batch after secondary fermentation came out great.
So the moral is is you are limited on space and don't want a lot more equipment, put another tap on a bucket above the 2 liter (1/2 GALLON) mark and use that to draw off the beer above the trub. Been working great so far.
Live in a small apartment and I drive the wife crazy with my brewing. I don't have a lot of storage space but I do have a walk-in closet that helps. I was contemplating buying a conical fermenter that I could hang on the wall. My beer was tasting so much better and was much clearer when I secondary fermented it. I had made a mistake when I put a tap on my original tapping bucket and put the tap up too high ( top of tap is just above the 5 liter mark on a 25 liter bucket, about 5 gallons) and have to tilt the bucket to bottle those last couple of liters. After looking at smaller conical fermenters I decided to use this bucket. When I tapped it over to the secondary bucket I left almost all the sediment behind. I washed it and re-used the yeast. The batch after secondary fermentation came out great.
So the moral is is you are limited on space and don't want a lot more equipment, put another tap on a bucket above the 2 liter (1/2 GALLON) mark and use that to draw off the beer above the trub. Been working great so far.
