lady_brewer
Well-Known Member
So I had to step up production recently, and rather than drive 40 minutes both ways on the weekend to the LHBS I know and love I went to the one half close to work after I got off on Friday. There I bought 2 primary buckets that are sort of a cloudy plastic.
LHBS guy assured me that these were much better than any bucket I had at home and that I was going to love them. I assured him that I was not, but that I needed primaries right then, so I would settle.
Here are my issues:
1. While the volume is marked on the side there is no clear delineation for 23L, I soon fixed this with my permanent purple sharpie (which I use to label my beer atm), but it still pissed me off as I was adding water to the mark and drifted off. I am betting it is really hard to un-dilute it if you f up.
2. He cut the holes for the bung/ airlock in the top. This is not a problem, except that he had to cut them because the company claims the buckets to be self-venting. I don't want it to be self-venting. I want there to be that little water barrier there. Fortunately they are not self-venting really (quite a few people who bought them apparently had nasty blow-out, cover popping incidents. This is good, because I didn't really feel like working at not freaking out about my beer.
and the biggest thing that is bugging me:
3. I can see what is happening! I was perfectly happy lying in bed (my brew room is the jacuzzi room off of my bedroom) and hearing the little "blurp, blurp" of the airlock and knowing that my beer was fermenting. Now I keep having to get up and go watch my yeast. And the container isn't clear enough to actually see anything.
I am very annoyed. I always hate it when I knew I should have gone to the other LHBS... grumble.
LHBS guy assured me that these were much better than any bucket I had at home and that I was going to love them. I assured him that I was not, but that I needed primaries right then, so I would settle.
Here are my issues:
1. While the volume is marked on the side there is no clear delineation for 23L, I soon fixed this with my permanent purple sharpie (which I use to label my beer atm), but it still pissed me off as I was adding water to the mark and drifted off. I am betting it is really hard to un-dilute it if you f up.
2. He cut the holes for the bung/ airlock in the top. This is not a problem, except that he had to cut them because the company claims the buckets to be self-venting. I don't want it to be self-venting. I want there to be that little water barrier there. Fortunately they are not self-venting really (quite a few people who bought them apparently had nasty blow-out, cover popping incidents. This is good, because I didn't really feel like working at not freaking out about my beer.
and the biggest thing that is bugging me:
3. I can see what is happening! I was perfectly happy lying in bed (my brew room is the jacuzzi room off of my bedroom) and hearing the little "blurp, blurp" of the airlock and knowing that my beer was fermenting. Now I keep having to get up and go watch my yeast. And the container isn't clear enough to actually see anything.
I am very annoyed. I always hate it when I knew I should have gone to the other LHBS... grumble.