Redbeard5289
Well-Known Member
Hey Everyone,
I need your input on this idea I brewed up this weekend while partaking of a few our our creations with my next door neighbor.
We were discussing about adding a 2nd fermenter to our systems and what we should get, glass carboy, plastic better bottle carboy or another 6.5 gal bucket. (Currently we have the standard fermentation bucket and an open lid bottling bucket with spigot.)
After rounding up our kids and saying good night I had this idea while i was getting my boy ready for bed.
Could a guy just use the bottling bucket with a spigot as a 2nd fermenter. My thinking was that after the intial fermentation process was done in the primary fermentation bucket I could then siphon the beer into the bottling bucket, seal it up with a bucket lid (with an attached airlock, in case of 2nd fermentation process happened) and let the beer conditioned in the bottling bucket. When the conditioning was over (1-3 weeks) I can then attach my bottle filler to the bottling bucket spigot and start bottling. (I would be using carbonation tabs instead of mixing in sugar water into the beer for carbonation)
My thinking was that this would reduce contamination but also speed up the bottling process by cutting out a third vessel to transfer the beer to and from.
What do you guys and gals think? Looking for thoughts and feedback on this idea.
Thanks
Redbeard5289
I need your input on this idea I brewed up this weekend while partaking of a few our our creations with my next door neighbor.
We were discussing about adding a 2nd fermenter to our systems and what we should get, glass carboy, plastic better bottle carboy or another 6.5 gal bucket. (Currently we have the standard fermentation bucket and an open lid bottling bucket with spigot.)
After rounding up our kids and saying good night I had this idea while i was getting my boy ready for bed.
Could a guy just use the bottling bucket with a spigot as a 2nd fermenter. My thinking was that after the intial fermentation process was done in the primary fermentation bucket I could then siphon the beer into the bottling bucket, seal it up with a bucket lid (with an attached airlock, in case of 2nd fermentation process happened) and let the beer conditioned in the bottling bucket. When the conditioning was over (1-3 weeks) I can then attach my bottle filler to the bottling bucket spigot and start bottling. (I would be using carbonation tabs instead of mixing in sugar water into the beer for carbonation)
My thinking was that this would reduce contamination but also speed up the bottling process by cutting out a third vessel to transfer the beer to and from.
What do you guys and gals think? Looking for thoughts and feedback on this idea.
Thanks
Redbeard5289