jonp9576
Well-Known Member
i was at my local homebrew supply today, and i was asking the guy about fermenting in the bottling bucket(with the spigot) i read on here i could do it. he said not to. any thoughts?
My first kit came with 2 buckets...both had spigots. I just recently got a third bucket that does not have one.If you have a lid there is no reason not to.
My "thoughts" are that he wanted to sell you another bucket. The only difference between bottling buckets and fermenting buckets and the spigot and lack thereof.
Maybe your LHBS guy was trying to tell you that you at least need another bucket to get the beer off the trub and to mix in priming sugar? So, in essence, you can't go straight from primary to bottles?
i am going to be kegging, and so far everyone i've asked told me i can go from my primary to the keg. is this wrong?
Has anybody ever changed out the spigot with sort of plug (plastic, nylon brass), so that it could be used as a fermenting bucket and lessen the chance of contamination?
The only reason I've ever heard not to ferment in a bottling bucket has to do with contamination around the spigot. That may be harder to clean/sanitize than a bucket without a spigot on it (gives bacteria a place to possibly grow).
That was the rational I got from my homebrew shop owner.
I guess the worst part for me (besides the infections) was that my spigot always leaked. It was a slow leak at about a beer every week but that enough for me.
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