kaempfer0080
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I'm curious about what the limits are on what I can use to ferment? I know most plastics aren't the best idea for contamination issues, with the exception of Better Bottles.
I'm just getting into brewing, mead actually, and I'm trying to figure out what size bottles I can get. I had the idea of making, for example, a 5 gallon batch of basic cyser in a 6.5 Gallon carboy or bucket. After the first ferment, I could split it into 5 1 gallon carboys and add different fruits/spices/additives to get 5 different mead's out of one batch.
So, to the point, what works as 1 gallon carboys? Could I use those large jugs that gallons of wine are sold in? Any other ideas for cheap alternatives to something manufactured specifically to be a carboy, and thus 100% more expensive? Luckily bungs and airlocks are cheap, it's just the bottles I'm trying to work out.
Thanks!
I'm just getting into brewing, mead actually, and I'm trying to figure out what size bottles I can get. I had the idea of making, for example, a 5 gallon batch of basic cyser in a 6.5 Gallon carboy or bucket. After the first ferment, I could split it into 5 1 gallon carboys and add different fruits/spices/additives to get 5 different mead's out of one batch.
So, to the point, what works as 1 gallon carboys? Could I use those large jugs that gallons of wine are sold in? Any other ideas for cheap alternatives to something manufactured specifically to be a carboy, and thus 100% more expensive? Luckily bungs and airlocks are cheap, it's just the bottles I'm trying to work out.
Thanks!