duck911
Active Member
I am leaving town on Mon so am bottling with a buddy tomorrow. I really needed to free up on of our buckets for bottling, but it was full of Pale Ale, which was done fermenting middle of this last week.
Normally I like to leave the beer on the yeast cake for 2-3 weeks but this one had to be moved due to circumstances out of our control
I decided to cold crash it for a week, and next Fri when I get back I will toss it into a corny keg and carb.
So in a pinch, I bought this water jug at Sportsmans. On the bottom it says 2 (in a triangle) and HDPE right below that. A simple search here tells me that HDPE is a viable plastic for beers.........
The container is $6. Is this a good option for stretching out the pipeline a bit by using it for cold crashing, or as a holding tank until bottling day? Perhaps even for fermenting smaller test batches?
Here is it with a 5 gallon batch I just siphoned into it. I was gentle with the transfer and purged the headspace with CO2 before sticking it into the fridge:
thoughts?
Normally I like to leave the beer on the yeast cake for 2-3 weeks but this one had to be moved due to circumstances out of our control
I decided to cold crash it for a week, and next Fri when I get back I will toss it into a corny keg and carb.
So in a pinch, I bought this water jug at Sportsmans. On the bottom it says 2 (in a triangle) and HDPE right below that. A simple search here tells me that HDPE is a viable plastic for beers.........
The container is $6. Is this a good option for stretching out the pipeline a bit by using it for cold crashing, or as a holding tank until bottling day? Perhaps even for fermenting smaller test batches?
Here is it with a 5 gallon batch I just siphoned into it. I was gentle with the transfer and purged the headspace with CO2 before sticking it into the fridge:
thoughts?
