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If any of you have been following my posts you'll now I've been having fermentation challenges which has meant that my only fermenter has been occupied for nearly a month. Fermentation buckets are a royal pain in the butt to get here but there are tons of food grade 20l buckets used for cooking oil for next to nothing (R20). So I'm thinking of trying to make my own fermenters. I have bought two oil buckets to experiment with for fermentation. I have tested to see how airtight they are by filling with water and holding upside down, it has a small trickle but seals quite well. I figured maybe won't work for fermentation and forgot about the idea.
Just the other day I saw a brew kit they sell in Aussie and the US (see https://www.mrbeer.com/lbk-fermenter) that doesn't have an airlock it just has a imperfect seal around the edges and the positive pressure in the fermenter keeps O2 out, which is effectively what my oil bucket would do.
I did buy an extra airlock on my last order so I'm thinking about experimenting a little. Do a 30l brew 15l in one bucket 15 in the other.
Bucket 1 just as standard with lose seal around the edge.
Bucket 2, I put some silicon in the lid to make a better seal and install airlock.
Questions:
anyone ever done something similar?
Anything I should lookout for?
if it ferments fine it means I'll have practically unlimited access to fermentation chambers so no excuses to to brew more often
If any of you have been following my posts you'll now I've been having fermentation challenges which has meant that my only fermenter has been occupied for nearly a month. Fermentation buckets are a royal pain in the butt to get here but there are tons of food grade 20l buckets used for cooking oil for next to nothing (R20). So I'm thinking of trying to make my own fermenters. I have bought two oil buckets to experiment with for fermentation. I have tested to see how airtight they are by filling with water and holding upside down, it has a small trickle but seals quite well. I figured maybe won't work for fermentation and forgot about the idea.
Just the other day I saw a brew kit they sell in Aussie and the US (see https://www.mrbeer.com/lbk-fermenter) that doesn't have an airlock it just has a imperfect seal around the edges and the positive pressure in the fermenter keeps O2 out, which is effectively what my oil bucket would do.
I did buy an extra airlock on my last order so I'm thinking about experimenting a little. Do a 30l brew 15l in one bucket 15 in the other.
Bucket 1 just as standard with lose seal around the edge.
Bucket 2, I put some silicon in the lid to make a better seal and install airlock.
Questions:
anyone ever done something similar?
Anything I should lookout for?
if it ferments fine it means I'll have practically unlimited access to fermentation chambers so no excuses to to brew more often
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