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Hi, I hope that this doesn't sound too dismissive. While I do enjoy the technical aspects of brewing, if you're not selling your beer, then if you miss measuring for a batch it's nothing to stress over. Enjoy your homebrew when it's finished and make a note to check on the next batch! My...

Excellent! I'll have to check these out! I only use fermenters a couple of times before I retire them to cleaning/sanitizing containers. Buying from Midwest becomes too expensive....

Yeah, I wrote a long-winded analysis of sourcing buckets on another thread. After a cross-country move, I no longer have access to a Smart-N-Final and their wonderfully cheap food storage pails. I'll have to check out the local Lowe's. Do they have lids?

Hi All! Came across this site while researching the use of Home Depot buckets for fermenting/bottling. I'm all about maxim value (read as 'cheap as he!!)

I haven't seen these. Do they 'stink' when you give them a strong sniff?

Sorry about all the typos...fat fingers on tiny phone...🙄

(Continued...again) 3) Volatiles... These are vapors, solvents, and other various stinks! These don't necessarily need contact to spoil your stuff. There are various solvents used in plastics manufacture, some are human safe, but will still guve your product that little extra something that will...

(Continued...) 1) Contamination... You would have to ask yourself what was this bucket used for before? Paint? Trash? Rat poison? And are you confident that you can get it clean. Plastics may seem solid, but they aren't like glass. The can adsorb things from whatever was in them before...

Hi, I've been reading this thread with some interest. I am a retired chemist who worked in pharmaceutical development and a cheap a$$ brewer! I have been discouraged by the prices I've seen lately for fermentation/bottling buckets and started wondering if The Home Depot might be the answer to my...