Owly055
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"Sanitary Spigot" would seem to be an oxymoron. The outer portion of the spigot is an open passage for fruit flies, earwigs, and anything else to crawl into, a dark moist environment for microbes to grow in, and there would seem to be no way to sanitize it........
Or is there?
Actually there is, and it's called the Italian Bottling Spigot, and here's a link I found to them on the Great Fermentations web site. I've had one on one of my fermenters for years and believed they were gone and long forgotten until I found this one today.
http://shop.greatfermentations.com/product/italian-bottling-spigot/plastic-fermenters?gclid=CjwKEAiAp_WyBRD37bGB_ZO9qAYSJAA72IkgY2csLtrw09SJlmYC5tAcph47IRPvBW-_Cnzz7msVgRoCXc3w_wcB
These spigots are vastly superior to the cheap garbage spigots that everybody carries and uses these days. The American spigots are brittle, and are inferior in every respect to these.
The Italian Bottling Spigot pivots to any direction at any time without turning in the bucket seals, they are designed to pivot. The plastic used is NOT the brittle garbage used in American spigots.
I keep my spigot pointed upward with the handle pointed straight outward instead of to one side. This keeps the vent hole closed. I fill it with starsan (which slowly leaks out), and put a sanitized plastic cap which came on the tip of a rebuilt diesel fuel injector over the tip. When I use the spigot for bottling, I remove the cap and refill it with starsan, leaving awhile before I bottle, then attach a sanitized hose and rotate the spigot downward, allowing the remaining starsan to drain down through the hose.
At a mere $3.50 at Great Fermentations, these are a bargain, and will be replacing all of my spigots with good ones!!
H.W.
Or is there?
Actually there is, and it's called the Italian Bottling Spigot, and here's a link I found to them on the Great Fermentations web site. I've had one on one of my fermenters for years and believed they were gone and long forgotten until I found this one today.
http://shop.greatfermentations.com/product/italian-bottling-spigot/plastic-fermenters?gclid=CjwKEAiAp_WyBRD37bGB_ZO9qAYSJAA72IkgY2csLtrw09SJlmYC5tAcph47IRPvBW-_Cnzz7msVgRoCXc3w_wcB
These spigots are vastly superior to the cheap garbage spigots that everybody carries and uses these days. The American spigots are brittle, and are inferior in every respect to these.
The Italian Bottling Spigot pivots to any direction at any time without turning in the bucket seals, they are designed to pivot. The plastic used is NOT the brittle garbage used in American spigots.
I keep my spigot pointed upward with the handle pointed straight outward instead of to one side. This keeps the vent hole closed. I fill it with starsan (which slowly leaks out), and put a sanitized plastic cap which came on the tip of a rebuilt diesel fuel injector over the tip. When I use the spigot for bottling, I remove the cap and refill it with starsan, leaving awhile before I bottle, then attach a sanitized hose and rotate the spigot downward, allowing the remaining starsan to drain down through the hose.
At a mere $3.50 at Great Fermentations, these are a bargain, and will be replacing all of my spigots with good ones!!
H.W.