Lots of empty fermenters
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Lots of empty fermenters
12 gallon and 5 gallon pyrex carboys with a winebottle for scale
Two 3 gallon pyrex carboys with 6 gallon carboys in the back.
The bungs that came with them are starting to crack so I need some replacements. They are nearly hockey puck sized. Anyone got a local source.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
I'm looking for a #13 stopper, which isn't quite as big as a hockey puck but is bigger than anything I can find locally. One of the suppliers we were looking at for this group order viewtopic.php?f=13&t=176 has some and likely has some big enough for your use. I'm hoping we get enough interest to revive this order so take a look.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
There is a another carboy wrapped in a towel in the picture, that has my tiny batch of all grain snow wheat in it. Behind the camera is two more 6 gallon carboys with my friends red wines in them(its his house) and he has beer in a bucket fermenter(can't remember what it is). We just bottled two 6 gallon carboys of wine and two 6 gallon carboys of pilsner.
I think we now have more fermenter capacity than we could ever use. 36 gallons capacity in glass carboys, 40 gallons capacity in pyrex and 30 gallon capacity in plastic buckets. I only own about 1/3 of it.
I can't wait to start a 10 gallon batch in one of the pyrex carboys. I think that might have to wait until I have a kegging system setup.
A vacuum pump is getting higher on my "need" list. I really don't want to have to lift these to rack them. I think I'll just try and schedule racking for the same nights we filter wine as we rent the vacuum filter kit from NG.
I think we now have more fermenter capacity than we could ever use. 36 gallons capacity in glass carboys, 40 gallons capacity in pyrex and 30 gallon capacity in plastic buckets. I only own about 1/3 of it.
I can't wait to start a 10 gallon batch in one of the pyrex carboys. I think that might have to wait until I have a kegging system setup.
A vacuum pump is getting higher on my "need" list. I really don't want to have to lift these to rack them. I think I'll just try and schedule racking for the same nights we filter wine as we rent the vacuum filter kit from NG.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
Like so many things in life, there's no such thing as too much capacity You end up brewing/vinting to fit the capacity, not the demand - then you start looking for places to give away the surplus so that you can make more!Garak wrote:I think we now have more fermenter capacity than we could ever use. 36 gallons capacity in glass carboys, 40 gallons capacity in pyrex and 30 gallon capacity in plastic buckets.
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A vacuum pump is getting higher on my "need" list. I really don't want to have to lift these to rack them. I think I'll just try and schedule racking for the same nights we filter wine as we rent the vacuum filter kit from NG.
A vacuum pump is a wonderful thing. My wife does the vinting, and she's too short to lift a five gallon carboy up to a shelf even if she had the strength. The vacuum pump is probably the single-most used piece of equipment we have.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
I'll look into a stopper for you... I'll drop you a PM either way.KMcK wrote:I'm looking for a #13 stopper, which isn't quite as big as a hockey puck but is bigger than anything I can find locally. One of the suppliers we were looking at for this group order viewtopic.php?f=13&t=176 has some and likely has some big enough for your use. I'm hoping we get enough interest to revive this order so take a look.
Does it need a hole?
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
Ultimately it needs a hole but if you can only find one without I can easily drill one.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
Cool... I'll see what we have.
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Re: Lots of empty fermenters
Wow, what a pile of glass. Fill that shit up!!!
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