coopers kits?

[jason1973]

even tho waiting on carb on first batch mr beer, ready to up my game.
question coopers fermenter can it be used for normal fermenting or just for coopers kits?

 

[podz]

use it for anything you want

 

[jason1973]

use it for anything you want

even tho doesn't use standard airlock?
I like the price.

 

[Hello]

even tho doesn't use standard airlock?

I like the price.

Yup. As long as it has an airlock.

 

[CanAusBrewer]

I use my Coopers fermenter for everything. It's good being able to bottle directly from the fermenter!

 

[jason1973]

Yup. As long as it has an airlock.

does it have an airlock that what im not sure about?

 

[jason1973]

I use my Coopers fermenter for everything. It's good being able to bottle directly from the fermenter!

thanks, I was typing and didn't see your answer.

 

[jason1973]

I use my Coopers fermenter for everything. It's good being able to bottle directly from the fermenter!

do you have the modern version? this one

 

[jason1973]

plastic fermentor only temp any ways eventualy want get this

 

[Doomsday]

I use my coopers fermenter for everything!
Its the old screw top one, with a small grommet for an airlock. Evan have an extra hole drilled for a thermowell.

Though it has a spigot I still use a bottling bucket to avoid getting to much sediment in my beers.

 

[jason1973]

I use my coopers fermenter for everything!
Its the old screw top one, with a small grommet for an airlock. Evan have an extra hole drilled for a thermowell.

Though it has a spigot I still use a bottling bucket to avoid getting to much sediment in my beers.

so a coopers should do me even a new one until I can get a conical?

 

[DaNewf]

I'm pushing three years of heavy use now with my Cooper's DIY fermenter (no airlock on this one). I have no plans to buy anything else unless I accidently scrape it up and start getting infections.

I only bottled directly from it a couple of times before getting a bottling bucket but it was an acceptable way to get the job done if you don't mind measuring sugar into the bottles or the slightly higher cost of carbonation drops.

I like that it's pretty much transparent, I can look down through the lid and see what's going on even when the fermenter is in my fermentation chamber (chest freezer). But the biggest reason I like this is the rediculous amount of headspace available especially with the Krausen collar in place.

I've done stouts in this thing that would have blown the lid off an ale pale and flooded my ferm chamber. The stout/dark ale toucan I did was nicely contained with only a single foam cone touching the lid before collapsing back into the 12 or so inches of foam that was floating on top of the beer.

 

[user 144271]

I love my coppers DIY fermenter. Too bad you cant buy just the fermenter in US.

I bottle straight from it and have never had any issues. A OT faster than a bottle bucket.

 

[CanAusBrewer]

I have three older one previously described with the grommet and airlock. As I understand it the design of the new one makes an airlock unnecessary. It's this correct?

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah, the new design makes airlocks unnecessary. I have the Cooper's Micro Brew FV that was being sold before the new airlock-less DIY one came out. Tough lil fermenter that has plenty of head space. It also has a recess for the spigot so the seal doesn't squeeze out of place. The screw on lid seals real well, but can be a bear to loosen afterward. I've got my watermelon hefe in it now. Since it has metric volume measurements on it, 19L equals 5.016 USG.

 

[Hello]

I thought they had airlocks but I looked it up and it does not. How come they don't? Doesn't a FV need an airlock?

 

[unionrdr]

They give clamps to hold the lid down, but if you don't use'em, the gas escapes out the lid.

 

[DaNewf]

They give clamps to hold the lid down, but if you don't use'em, the gas escapes out the lid.

Even with the clamps installed the "seal" between the lid and the fermenter body is nowhere near airtight. There is no rubber gasket and the lid doesn't snap on, it just lays on there. Air and CO2 has no trouble escaping.

Since the lid isn't snapped on the purpose on the clamps is to make it a little harder to accidently knock the lid off and maybe keep small children and pets out of the beer.

 

[unionrdr]

OK, I wondered about that part. Never saw one in person. But my Cooper's Micro Brew FV has all that head space as well. The watermelon hefe I'm finishing up used WL300 Hefeweizen yeast, which can be a beast in a carboy or bucket. But the FV being about 27L, with 19L (5.016 USG) in it, it had the recommended 30% head space. Worked great for all that krausen. Not one blow off or foam over!

 

[DaNewf]

I thought they had airlocks but I looked it up and it does not. How come they don't? Doesn't a FV need an airlock?

An FV Doesn't need an airlock. The beer just needs to be protected from oxygen and "stuff" falling into it. An airlock on an otherwise airtight vessel is one way of accomplishing this.