Small Batch Fermentation Container

[pfooti]

Yeah, I use gallon jugs. You can also often buy apple cider and cheapass wine in jugs of that nature, which might bee marginally easier- an empty gallon jug costs me about five bucks. A gallon jug filled with cider is like eight bucks.

I like cider.

[CRBrewHound]

Yeah, I use gallon jugs. You can also often buy apple cider and cheapass wine in jugs of that nature, which might bee marginally easier- an empty gallon jug costs me about five bucks. A gallon jug filled with cider is like eight bucks.

I like cider.

+1, Love cider!

[Ozwald]

Another +1 on the gallon jugs. I bought them from LHBS & use them for bigger yeast starters, or splitting one into 2 smaller pitches. I have 6 maybe 7 of them. I also have a pair of 3 gallon carboys that are beyond all awesomeness.

[gibsale]

I will throw it out there, I use the Mr. Beer containers for test/split batch brewing. $10, food grade, easy to clean. Works for me.

[BrewerBC]

My LHBS has 2gal buckets that work well. If you can't find them email the guy at MainBrew.Com. the gallon jugs also work well.

[biertourist]

Thanks for starting this thread Landrer; I was about to create a thread on the same subject.

I'm also interested in food-grade plastic options because I want to brew a beer with only 60 minute bittering additions, then split a 5 gallon batch in to 5 one gallon plastic fermenters and dump in a lot of 0 minute hops into each fermenter. (Transfer the beer while still at boiling temps and use the "no boil" method to leave the hops at the high temps for quite a while). -Adding boiling wort to glass containers is not a good idea...

-I'm planning on doing this to compare 5 different hops using the exact same base beer. I'll add a load of 0 minute hops to each 1 gallon fermenter, and then ferment after they cool, and then dry hop. ("Hop Bomb" technique + no chill basically) -I get to experiment with 5 new hops in a single 5 gallon batch this way.

5 Single hop beers in one brew day. -This is my plan, anyway....
-Then of course I can play with blending the different beers, too.
LOADS of things I can play with with 5 1 gallon fermenters!


Adam

[snowcapt]

How about the gallon jugs that bottled water come in? Food grade plastic, right? Is there something woogie with these?
I usually pluck glass rossi bottles out of the recycle bins when I go to the local facility.

[CRBrewHound]

How about the gallon jugs that bottled water come in? Food grade plastic, right? Is there something woogie with these?
I usually pluck glass rossi bottles out of the recycle bins when I go to the local facility.

Those are completely fine, I have stored cider in them as well as done a couple of "in-a-pinch" feremenations in them. However, he was talking about putting near boiling wort in them. Which the plastic on those is not thick enough to hold up to that heat, I don't think they are anyway.