How many Fermenters do you have.

[user 30639]

4 total. A 6.5 gallon and 5 gallon in glass. And then the same but in plastic.


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[willy_mugobeer]

4 buckets plus two 5gal carboys....haven't been using those last two much lately; the convenience of the spigots on the buckets is a big plus.


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[hitthewall79]

2 - 5 gallon bucket
2 - 4 gallon bucket
2 - 2 gallon bucket
1 - 5 gallon carboy
1 - 3 gallon carboy
5 - 1 gallon carboy

All together adds up to 13, thanks for helping me take inventory, lol

 

[hitthewall79]

Three 15 gallon Demi-johns
Four 6.5 gallon glass carboys
Four 6 gallon glass carboys
Two 5 gallon glass carboys

Lucky 13

That's a lot of brew... how often do you use those demi-johns? More importantly, how often do you have more than 1 demi-john full?

 

[mmb]

6 ale pails
4 6G Better Bottles
2 5G Better Bottles
2 3G Better Bottles
2 6.5G Big Mouth Bubblers in plastic
A mess of 1G glass carboys
2 15.5G SS fermenters

And 3 6G glass carboys that have not managed to break yet.

 

[pricelessbrewing]

I have two ale pails, 1 bottling bucket, 1 3gal carboy, 2 repurposed frosting buckets 4.5 gall, 4 repurposed chlorine buckets from a local city pool place. So 10 total as needed.

Usually the frosting buckets are used in sparging, but the chlorine buckets are great, super tight lid that twists on instead of those finger crushing press lids.

Forgot my jugs. 3 1G, 1 .5G. So that puts me at 14. Have to say I love those new chlorine buckets.

 

[broncosmoker]

17- I gallon glass carboys
8- 2 Gallon Glass carboys
8- 3 Gallon Glass Carboys
4- 5 Gallon Glass carboys
6-6 gallon glass carboys
2- 15.9 Speidel Plastic Tanks

Future is to add 2 more 15.9 speidels, a 20 gallon can for mead, and if I can find one at a decent price a 50 gallon bourbon barrel. Will prob thin out the 5 gallon carboys as well as I find them inconvenient to use.

 

[W0GWT]

3- 6 Gallon Better Bottles
3- 5 Gallon Glass Carboys
1- Plastic Bucket

 

[atoughram]

Four six gallon buckets, three carboys, and one 17gal Plastic Conical.

 

[BrewerBrad82]

That's a lot of brew... how often do you use those demi-johns? More importantly, how often do you have more than 1 demi-john full?

Hitthewall,
I currently have all three demi johns full, and I dont often use the smaller carboys. I ferment pretty much all my beer in one stage, not often going to carboys for a secondary, unless its a lager or a rather strong ale. I select my yeast strains to be quite flocculent so I have clear beer in three weeks time, negating secondary fermenters altogether.

 

[DaNewf]

4 pages in and no mention of the Mr. Beer fermenter (unless I missed it).

Have none of us used it (I opted for the Cooper's DIY kit over Mr. Beer when I started) or have all those that used it since gotten rid of it?

I figure that some brewers hang on to the Mr. Beer fermenter for nostalgia purposes or to brew small batches in.

 

[Xpertskir]

2 16 gallon HDPE extract containers
2 5 gallon BB
11 6 gallon BB
2 59 gallon wine barrels

 

[balrog]

Inadequate don't begin to describe the feeling...

I have no idea!

I've been a winemaker for a long time, and I have many carboys (both glass and better bottles) in 5 and 6 gallon sizes for that- maybe 25-35(?) of those. I have lots of 'ale pails' in sizes 6.5 gallons up to 8 gallons- maybe 10(?) of those. I have lots of 3 gallon carboys, both better bottles and glass. I have some big primary bin-type of fermenters for big batches of wine.

So, 50-60(?) maybe. Give or take a dozen or so.

But this really is perfect:

I have exactly one less than I need at all times. Oh...and one more than my wife wants in the house .

I only have 1 Ale Pail & 3 5G carboys (2 glass, 1 BB) rarely used. With just one small temp-controlled ferm chamber, that's all I'm willing to try at one time.

 

[Yooper]

Catdaddy66,

Just in case you were only feeling a 'LITTLE' inadequate...



Now ALL of us feel that way, too.

I forgot about the dozens of one gallon jugs, by the way.

However, I have a big house and things like carboys can fill up half of the basement with room left over- that's how my obsession first got out of control.

The sad part is that right now, I only have about a dozen big carboys full. That's from wine I made last fall, and will be bottled before making the wine from this fall's harvest. I have chokecherry wine, apple wine, crabapple wine, and plum wine to package. The rhubarb, cider, oaked blackberry, and blueberry has been bottled. I had far more full carboys a month ago, and still have a long way to get to get it all packaged.

Winemaking is a great hobby for a procrastinator!

 

[Paradigm]

I had four. Two buckets, 2 glass carboys. Dropped one a couple weeks ago and lost my lager and the carboy. Nobody was hurt but it was a very sad time.

 

[LandoLincoln]

Just curious how many fermenters you all have. I have 9 Plastic buckets ( thanks to a 10$ sale) ands 5 glass carboys ( thanks to a 14$ sale)

I have billions of them. Working in my basement as we speak.

Yeast are fermenters. Vessels are fermentors.

 

[W0GWT]

I have billions of them. Working in my basement as we speak.



Yeast are fermenters. Vessels are fermentors.

Substance over form!

Good catch.

 

[keggert]

3 6 gallon (one glass)
4 5 gallon
4 4 gallon
2 Ale pails

Thought I had a lot, since my fermenting chamber can hold only 6. Apparently I am mistaken

 

[jwelch1103]

5 5 g. glass carboys
4 6g. Ported better bottles
4 1g. Glass milk bottles
1 14 g. Demijohn

 

[catdaddy66]

Winemaking is a great hobby for a procrastinator!

That's what I love about brewing... It's the perfect hobby for lazy people like me!

My daughter... "Aren't you going to bottle today?"

Me... " Nah! I'll get to it next weekend."

Lol!



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[firerat]

4 pages in and no mention of the Mr. Beer fermenter (unless I missed it).

I had one for a while until I murdered it with close to boiling temp water.

It was good for small batches. As good as any other vessel.

But then I murdered it with 200°F wort. Oops.

Yeah don't do that.

 

[Rotgut]

1x 3 gal carboy
1x 5 gal carboy
1x 6 gal carboy
6x 6 gal buckets

9 total. But I only use 2-3 at a time, and have stopped using the glass carboys altogether. I'm considering selling the 5 and 6 gal ones.

 

[Fordzilla]

5 7 gallon buckets
4 5 gallon glass carboys
1 6.5 gallon glass carboy
1 2.5 gallon plastic Mr. Beer fermentor I have never used
5 1 gallon glass jugs for experiments/yeast starters

 

[MileHighBrewer]

27 total

1 - 6 gal glass
1 - 6 gal BB
2 - 5 gal BB
3 - 3 gal BB
3 - 3 gal NB bubblers
4 - 1 gal glass
5 - sixtel sankes converted
6 - 15 gal hpde barrels
1 - 6 gal bucket
1 - 5 gal bucket

 

[ShockedHop]

4- fermenting buckets, 1- glass 5gal carboy, and 2- 5gal Poland spring bottles. Now I just need to get a temp controlled fermenter set up and I'll be golden.


Keg #1 - Brewers Best American Ale
Keg #2 - Brewers Best Kolsch
Keg #3 - Harpoon IPA
Primary #1- Midwest Mexican creveza
Primary #2- Midwest Honey Ale
Secondary #1-
Secondary #2-
Yeah I do kits!

 

[Dutch_IPA]

Two: a standard bucket with lid and a higher quality Speidel fermenter.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Have one 6 gal glass and one 5 gal glass.. can fit only 2 carboys in my ferm chamber. Also have 3 kegs