What to do with a Mr.Beer?

[jacobyhale]

I recently purchased a ton of bottles and a capper off of craigslist, and the guy threw in a Mr.Beer fermentor thing with it. Is there anything useful that I can do with it? I don't want to just throw it away, then find out it makes an awesome gadget of some sort.

 

[EdWort]

Put it back on craigslist for the same amount.

 

[Sir Humpsalot]

Dry hopping secondary for experimental partial batches? Siphon 2 gallons into the Mr Beer and do a funky dry hop experiment.

 

[jacobyhale]

Dry hopping....I like it! With the prices of hops, dryhopping 2gallons is a good option!

 

[DUCCCC]

Set it up for use by a friend who might be on the fence about getting into homebrew. I read quite a few posts from guys here who started with a Mr. Beer and moved on to AG in a short time. Tell them to do the same when they're done with the Mr. Beer.

On the other hand, you can use it for experimenting on smaller batches. Those things are like what, 2.5 gallons? Use it as a primary for tweaking recipes for Apfelwein?

 

[ScubaSteve]

+1 to all of these ideas....maybe use it for making starters/harvesting cakes???? You could easily decant yeast with that spigot....

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Starters, that's an idea. Otherwise I was going to say to chuck the thing.

 

[david_42]

REAL ale. A chance to compare cask conditioned ales to carbonated.

 

[Cheesefood]

A-B testing. Make a brew and then do seperate yeasts, seperate dryhops, etc. Or make small batches of mead or experimental wines.

 

[Fingers]

If you have a good saw, two urinals for the bar.