No More Carboys!

[Black Island Brewer]

I was reading that we shouldn't really post thing like "in before the lock", but...

 

[jbb3]

I use buckets. Are they cool, no. Are they sexy, no. Can you see fermentation, no.

Do they work just fine, yes. Are they cheap, yes.

I like buckets because they promote you leaving your beer the hell alone. There's nothing to see, nothing to watch. Put your beer in it and come back in 3 weeks.

As for those of you whose tender little fingers have trouble with lids, google "5 gallon bucket wrench" - for $5 you get a plastic tool that will help you get that big bad lid off your bucket easier.

screw you jerk

 

[jrgtr42]

I have 2 Better Bottles, 3 glass carboys (2 6-gal and 1 5-gal) and plenty of buckets.
I (almost always) do primary fermentation in the buckets, and save the carboys for secondary. To me, the convenience of cleaning out the bucket trumps being able to see in.
I have some cider working now that has one of the glass ones in it's future, I have a sour planned that will go primary with standard yeast, then secondary in glass. A brett-IPA that will be all in glass, and a RIS that will get bourbon and rum soaked oak in a plastic.
Anything that is a one-and-done, stays in bucket all the way through.