Hi!
I found myself recently looking up plastic buckets in a particular size, and thought that I might not want to go that plastic route anymore. Glass would be good, if it wouldn't be easy to break so the only option remaining is stainless steel. I am looking for a bucket type fermenter, with an airlock and one spigot. No conical, wanna keep it as simple as possible.
My personal reasons for going stainless:
Nearly all my buckets were not air tight, I hope the stainless fermenter will be.
Easy cleaning.
Long lasting.
What I am looking for is a maximum volume of fermenting beer of 12-14 litres (that's 3.3-3.7 us liquid gallons).
Allowing for some head space, I think the fermenter should have at least 16, maybe 18 litres. I wouldn't want anything that does not allow me to ferment 14 litres.
I was now looking at what's available and I only found stainless buckets that were either too small or too big. If I remember correctly, there's an anvil around 20litres and one that was 3 us gallons.
If I would go with the 20 litres version, would there be any detrimental effect to the beer if it sits in primary with that much head space, given that I mostly ferment 12-14 litre batches?
Is there any well priced stainless bucket fermenter that I might have missed, ticks my boxes and you would recommend?
Thanks,
M
I found myself recently looking up plastic buckets in a particular size, and thought that I might not want to go that plastic route anymore. Glass would be good, if it wouldn't be easy to break so the only option remaining is stainless steel. I am looking for a bucket type fermenter, with an airlock and one spigot. No conical, wanna keep it as simple as possible.
My personal reasons for going stainless:
Nearly all my buckets were not air tight, I hope the stainless fermenter will be.
Easy cleaning.
Long lasting.
What I am looking for is a maximum volume of fermenting beer of 12-14 litres (that's 3.3-3.7 us liquid gallons).
Allowing for some head space, I think the fermenter should have at least 16, maybe 18 litres. I wouldn't want anything that does not allow me to ferment 14 litres.
I was now looking at what's available and I only found stainless buckets that were either too small or too big. If I remember correctly, there's an anvil around 20litres and one that was 3 us gallons.
If I would go with the 20 litres version, would there be any detrimental effect to the beer if it sits in primary with that much head space, given that I mostly ferment 12-14 litre batches?
Is there any well priced stainless bucket fermenter that I might have missed, ticks my boxes and you would recommend?
Thanks,
M