How Many Carboys Do You Own ?

[CrankyBeaverBrewery]

Im ever increasing my stock of carboys... and just got me thinking.


How many carboys do you own ?? and what sizes ?

current stock for me..
8 - 6 Gallon
4 - 6.5 Gallon

 

[cullensage]

12 one gallon demijohns and two 40pint carboyds ;-)

 

[DarthMalt]

3- 6gal. Better Bottle
1- 6gal. glass.
1- 5gal. glass.

 

[DarthMalt]

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[LabRatBrewer]

1 Glass 6.5
5 7-8 gallon buckets
1 better bottle
1 3 gallon glass
1 Mr. Beer ($10 on Mr. Beer.com, its a great little fermenter for experiments)
7 1 gallon glass jugs

 

[cyclonite]

2 6.5 glass carboys
1 5 gallon better bottle
4 6.5 gallon buckets
2 5 gallon buckets
1 1 gallon demijohn

 

[passedpawn]

(5) 6g Better bottles
(2) 5g glass carboys (hate those things, only used for sours)

 

[jaytizzle]

(2) 6.5g glass primaries
(1) 5g glass secondary
(1) 5g plastic secondary (PET #1 grade spring water bottle)

 

[Ramitt]

2 - 6.5 gal
3 - 5 gal glass
1 ale pail I use the most and a Mr Beer for smal batches.

The glass was all free, if I buy anything else it will be plastic, probably buckets. Unless I hit the powerball then Stainless conicals all the way.

 

[RM-MN]

One plastic 5 gallon. Wanna buy it? I so seldom use it that it is a waste of my space.

 

[Hammy71]

(6) 6 gallon carboys
(2) 5 gallon carboys

All glass.

 

[Bigcorona]

2 7.5 gal plastic buckets
2 6.5 gal glass carboys
8 5 gal glass carboys
1 3 gal glass carboy

Since the board has convinced me to primary only, I have not been using the 5 gal carboys recently.

 

[Tinman13]

(1) 6.5 GAL Glass
(2) 5.0 GAL Glass
(8) 1.0 Glass Jugs (full of wine and mead)

 

[zeg]

2 x 5 gallon, 1 x 6 gallon, all plastic Better Bottles.

 

[tojo]

3- 6 gal glass
2- 5 gal glass
2- 3 gal glass

 

[scoundrel]

several

 

[copyright1997]

4 - 6+ gallon glass, 1 - 7+ gallon glass, 1 - 6.5 gallon plastic bucket. I don't usually secondary in carboy's, as I condition in kegs (have 9 of them).

 

[JoshuaW]

I'm lacking, I have two 6.5 buckets, one 6 gallon carboy, a 6 gallon better bottle, and a 5 gallon jug.

 

[Merleti]

Not enough

 

[Hoosier-Brewer]

Not enough. 2 6gal BB and 1 5gal BB.

 

[overdbus]

1 glass 6.5
2 B/B 6
1 B/B 5
1 water bottle 4
1 water bottle 3
5 glass growlers 1 gal
3 glass growlers 64oz

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

2x 6.5 gal carboys
2x 3 gal carboys
one 5 gal carboy
3 6.5 gal ale pails
a half dozen or so 1 gal jugs
a few half gal jugs

 

[tknice]

4 x 6 gal better bottles in my main rotation
1 x 5 gallon better bottle
1 x 5 gallon glass

 

[CrankyBeaverBrewery]

Seems like Better Bottles and Glass Carboys are Pretty even.

 

[spokaniac]

1 X 6.5 gal glass
2 X 5 gal glass

 

[bk0]

2 x 5 gal PET

...local supermarket sells 5 gal PET bottles of water for $6.99.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

ZERO!

3x 7.5gal buckets with spigots

 

[Gregscsu]

1 - 14.5 Gallon Curtac Wide Mouth 7055 Drum
1 - 6.5 Gallon Acid Carboy
1 - 6 Gallon Glass Carboy
2 - 5 Gallon Glass Carboys
4 - 6.5 Gallon "Ale Pails"
2 - 2 Gallon Pails

 

[Jayhem]

Not nearly enough! I love the better bottles as primary fermenters!

1 - 6gal Better Bottle
1 - 5gal Glass

 

[paraordnance]

5 x 6 gal
2 x 5 gal
5 x 3 gal
9 x 1 gal
2 x 1/2 gal

I ferment and age beer, meads, cyser and cider in them. I only have 1 bucket

 

[beerloaf]

At the moment..

2x 15 gal plastic barrels (former LME containers converted to fermenters)
2x 6.5 gal Ale pales
1x 5 gal glass carboy
1x 6 gal glass carboy

 

[CrankyBeaverBrewery]

mine is now less -1 carboy ( broke it on the ride back from just getting it off craigslist )

 

[helibrewer]

6X Pails
10X Carboys (mostly BB's)
4X kegs

I have all the carboys because I do wine also and that stuff sits for 1yr plus.

 

[sclabrl]

1 glass 5gal
1 BB 6 gal
1 glass 6 gal
2 1 gal

Mom's got about 30 glass 5 glass carboys taking up space! Used to do wine but retired and retired from making the stuff now....

 

[rjwhite41]

4 glass 6gal
1 glass 5 gal
2 glass 1 gal
8 cornies

that's about all I need. I've filled them all before but it's not common. 1 gallons for starters, 6 gallons for primaries, the 5 gallon for dry hopping and the cornies for extended secondaries, lagering and, of course, serving

 

[scottedk]

1 6-gallon glass carboy
2 6.5-gallon plastic buckets
2 6.5-gallon bottling buckets (one of which I think I am going to use for a primary)

 

[Loneleigh]

5 - 6.5 Gallon Buckets
4 - 5 Gallon Glass Carboys

 

[urbanmyth]

1 - 6 gallon glass
6 - 1 gallon glass
2 - 4 gallon PET
5 - 5 gallon PET

 

[KevinW]

(2) Glass 5 gallon
(1) Better Bottle 5 gallon
(1) Glass 6.5 gallon
(2) Plastic 6.5 gallon
(1) Plastic 6.5 gallon bottling (could be used as a carboy)

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

1 - 6.5 Glass
1 - 6 BB
1 - 5 Glass
2 - 5 BB (apfelweiners!)