Conical fermenters

[KrausenCrazedCanuck]

So I've been brewing for a couple years in the plane Jane glass car boys, and just the other day I picked up an issue of brew magazine and flipped through it (woman was taking time shopping) and saw the new fangled space age tech available to us home brewers. Is there a difference other than batch volume when I comes to conical fermenters?

 

[pshankstar]

I have the FastFerment conical fermenter. It's nice to be able to dump the trub and yeast without exposing the beer. Or to harvest it. I have been a big fan of mine so far. I just installed a sampling port on it with a standard valve that would go on a bottling bucket. This way I can take gravity readings much easier now. The only problem I had was my step bit went a little too big (it was worn out from drilling my keggle for a drain valve) and I had to make a secondary gasket to seal it and keep it from leaking. I couldn't make myself pay for their $15 sampling port add-on when I already had a step bit and could buy the spigot for $3.

I also keg, so it makes it so easy to just fill the clean/sanitized keg and go!

Anyways, I love mine and would highly recommend it to others!

 

[KrausenCrazedCanuck]

It sounds really handy
Perhaps it's time to upgrade

 

[iijakii]

I love my conicals. I can clean them in a few minutes, don't have to sit there tipping carboys up and down to clean krausen off the topside, no racking equipment to clean besides a single piece of tubing. Plus all the trub dumping and easier yeast harvesting mentioned. But the cleaning pros are fantastic.