Nicknames for your fermenter?

[Willy]

I suspect I am not the only one, but yeah, I have names for my different fermenters.

I started off decades ago. Mr. Beer. I just called them - Ugly.
Brewed a ton of extract beers and loved them. And like many, years and years later, I quit for a while until getting back into it about 2015. So, I started back in with the humble NB bucket, 3 of them, named Denzel 1, 2 & 3.

Then I got a too good to pass deal on FB marketplace for a Spike CF-10 conical. Initially called - Kona The Beerbarian, but now also called the Flux Capacitor due to all the triclamp add-ons that came with it.

Also have 2 SS brewbuckets. Called Jack Haley I & Jack Haley I (the tin man actor).

Anyway. Curious if anyone has some cool, funny, odd or stupid names for your fermenters.

 

[firerat]

Back before i knew any better and fermented in an orange HD bucket (yes i know) I called it homer.

 

[Agent]

I just call all my glass carboys "Mother ####### Heavy ### Son of a #####" because that's about the same amount of syllables as stairs I carry them up/down.

 

[odie]

I'm supposed to name it ???

 

[Willy]

I'm supposed to name it ???

I mean, if you got a conical and your cleaning all those tri-clamp ports - you should at least know his/her name. You don't have it take it to a movie, but come on. :'-)

 

[MaxStout]

Fermenty McFermenterface

 

[Konadog]

Too funny, I thought I was the only crazy person to name my brew buckets..............Abbot and Costello!

 

[mac_1103]

I thought I was the only crazy person to name my brew buckets..............Abbot and Costello!

I have three buckets, so maybe Moe, Larry and Curly? OTOH, I don't use them much since I got a couple of Fermonsters.

 

[worlddivides]

Dark Lord Emperion Von of the Far Shores of the Forsaken Empire of Dust... and then there's Earl.

 

[Willy]

Dark Lord Emperion Von of the Far Shores of the Forsaken Empire of Dust... and then there's Earl.

Earl of Two Row?

 

[worlddivides]

Earl of Two Row?

This man gets it!

 

[pvpeacock]

My stainless conicals are simply "1" and "2" Have their names written right on them in Sharpie. Boring, I know.

 

[Skeeter686]

Wife named the X3 "VGER" (Star Trek: The Motion Picture reference) because it looks like a space probe with all the ports.

Because of that, we had to name the GF30, which in keeping with the theme, became Sputnik.

Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one with silly names for the fermenters.

 

[Yesfan]

CF-10 - The conical
Flex+ - The Flex
Fermonster - The Fermonster
Kegland All Rounder - The All Rounder
fermenting in a keg - The keg

I like to be different. I'm edgy like that..............

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Unit 1, unit 2, unit 3, and when /if they misbehave, well it's a family show so......

 

[Snuffy]

The Speidel 30L is Brewster. The Anvil is Buckethead. Starting now.

Ok... after some thought, I think I'm changing the Anvil from Buckethead to Steely Dan.

 

[hottpeper13]

Central Waters has a troublesome fermenter they call Donny.

 

[oakbarn]

I had a 75 g HLT that one of the Brew Group named "Big Mac". Our second 45 g Brew Kettle became "Little Mac".

 

[Willy]

My stainless conicals are simply "1" and "2" Have their names written right on them in Sharpie. Boring, I know.

Perhaps you meant - Juan (1) and Tooh (2) ? Haha

 

[AzOr]

Not very original but to the point..

My Anvil brew bucket will now be known as Fun Maker

 

[AzOr]

Or Potion Producer

Great Thread btw

 

[Scottyward]

Spike Flex with all the attachments: R2-D2

 

[Willy]

Spike Flex with all the attachments: R2-D2

Still waiting for the "Flex Capacitor",
But R2-D2 is a good one.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

2 cf15s are my main fermenters they're labeled as 1 and 2 for ease of labeling the temp controllers and glycol lines and whatnot. But 1 is frank the tank and 2 is hank.. just hank.. frank likes lagers and stouts and such and hank is more of a neipa kinda guy. Neither one like sours or seltzers, those get fed to the small batch guys, 6.5gal plastic fermenter, what should I call that hmmm the toilet?? Na, maybe Loo

 

[fluketamer]

old faithful - especially when i try to ferment a big grist with k97 and no blow off tube - cause its guaranteed to blow.

 

[RA Clark]

If I don't make another brew soon I'm going to start calling my fermenter "Dusty"

 

[dmtaylor]

I have two tall glass vase fermenters, about 26 inches tall with diameters of 4 inches and 6 inches. These I have affectionately named Jake and the Fat Man.

 

[Broken Crow]

I never named my fermenters because like @Yesfan , each of them is different; Fermonster, Fermzilla, Sanke's 1 & 2, but I did name some kegs...while my standard 5G kegs are letters A-D (used ones) and numbers 1-6 (new ones), I got first a pair of the chinese 1.6G baby-kegs and named them Bob & Doug. I later bought a 3rd and named it Geddy because of this:

 

[Yesfan]

@Broken Crow You should get two more baby kegs and name them Lerxst and the Professor for Alex and Neil.

Can't go wrong with Rush.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

I’m still craving a conical fermenter, but I already have a name for it: Narnia. And no, I have not read the book/watched the movie or whatever. I just think it would get a chuckle every now and then.