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Secondary Vessel Question

Thread starter sborz22
Start date Dec 6, 2017

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sborz22

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Dec 6, 2017

I have a super sour brewing in my primary and initially I was planning on moving to a secondary for a cherry puree addition. However, I have a 6.5 gallon carboy and I have just under 5 gallons of beer in the primary. The headspace worried me and then it came to me; why can't I use 5 one gallon water jugs for my secondary? The ones I am planning to use are food safe and it would allow me to a) remove a decent amount of headspace as well as b) allow me to make 5 different versions of the same base sour.

Any experience or thought about this?

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