Fermenting bucket

[garvinator70]

Made my own fermenting bucket , Home Depot for about 6$ , 1 3/8 stopper and air lock! 8$ cut a hole in lid inserted stopper . Then I cut hole in stopper and inserted air lock . Sealed all cuts with a hot glue gun . Bam ! It's working good first brew pilsner light. Airlock is bubbling good , cheers. All together cost 8$.

 

[E_Marquez]

Made my own fermenting bucket , Home Depot for about 6$ , 1 3/8 stopper and air lock! 8$ cut a hole in lid inserted stopper . Then I cut hole in stopper and inserted air lock . Sealed all cuts with a hot glue gun . Bam ! It's working good first brew pilsner light. Airlock is bubbling good , cheers. All together cost 8$.

Does this bucket have an o ring seal?

Is the plastic bucket food grade?

Sealed cuts? sealed them from what and why?

I'm all about DIY and saving a buck at the expense of time and hassle.

But a known food grade bucket, o ring sealed lid with grommet and air lock is only a couple of bucks more then your project and ready to ferment out the door.. no hot glue involved

 

[unionrdr]

regular fermenting buckets are not glued together. solvents from the glue might not be a good thing. You don't glue the airlock & grommet to the lid for instance. Those should remain removable in order to clean around them so as not to harbor nasty bacteria.

 

[Hello]

There is a lot of talk about using homer buckets. I think it was decided that they were safe but for another buck you get food grade and for another buck you get one from a home brew shop. Either way, I just kind of like to spend the extra couple of bucks for a little comfort. There are other things that can go wrong with my brew that I don't want to help matters.

 

[progmac]

a bucket is a bucket. OP, your setup sounds great!

 

[garvinator70]

a bucket is a bucket. OP, your setup sounds great!

thanks I thought so . It does have a rubber seal in the lid .

 

[E_Marquez]

a bucket is a bucket. OP, your setup sounds great!

Nope

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/plastics.html#foodgrade

 

[jrgtr42]

I have a couple of the Homer buckets in my brew kit. I mostly use them for storage and sanitizing, though I did use one to bottle my sour when I didn't want to contaminate my regular bottling bucket.
I trust that it's safe enough for those uses, but I wouldn't ferment in one.
On top of the fact that I don't think there;s enough headspace in there for a standard 5-gallon batch to ferment without blowing out.

 

[neo71665]

I haven't ever bought food grade buckets. Get to know somebody in food service.

 

[Whattawort]

FWIW - You can buy a pickle bucket from Firehouse Subs for $5 and the proceeds go to the Wounded Warrior Project. Good luck getting the pickle smell out though.

 

[garvinator70]

FWIW - You can buy a pickle bucket from Firehouse Subs for $5 and the proceeds go to the Wounded Warrior Project. Good luck getting the pickle smell out though.

I didn't think about them needing to be food grade buckets. Pickle smell probably wouldn't last long after you fermented in it.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Alcohol is one bad-ass solvent. If the type of plastic didn't matter, I would still use water cooler bottles.