Switching a carboy....screw the bucket!

[MVKTR2]

Heretic!!!! I loves muh bukets!

Seriously I've been brewing for 8+ years and have never seen my beer fermenting. In those 8 years I've also never had a problem knowing when my beer is fermenting and have removed the lid prior to thinking fermentation was complete less than 5 times on the better part of 100 batches. If its a problem for the OP/others, sorry, just not an issue here. Good luck.

 

[UndeadFred]

I finally bought a carboy. Plastic because that much glass scares the bejeezus out of me. Hate it. I think I am going to go to four or eight gallon batches and start using corneys. Much prefer the buckets but I would like less O2 exposure. I will use the carboy for the one wine a year I do....

 

[seabrew8]

I don't know how long the lid will last but this is my 2nd brew now with my new brewcraft bucket and it snaps on really well and the airlock works fine.

And personally for average ale beers i never go over 2 weeks in the bucket - i believe its the law of dimishing gains if you leave it for any longer in most cases.

My recent irish ale reached FG in 4 days, its painful to wait to bottle it. I will probably bottle on day 7 frankly.

 

[ZmannR2]

definitely buying this!!! It's a little over $200 but it's on my wishlist.....it will still fit in fermenting fridge too

 

[BobOki]

Yeah man, after looking at the SS Brewing stuff, I think I will probably get the middle grade stand up model with the temperature pack. Should run me about $600-700 but I will only have to buy it once it looks like and i can go straight from the boil to the fermentor and let the temp control cool it to 70f for pitching directly in the fermenter. Sounds awesome!