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Cone Bottom Fermenter

My favorite brewery supply place now is offering a series of cone bottom fermenters. Kind of like big plastic funnels on a stand. Their ad talks about not needing to transfer from a primary fermented to a secondary. Just drain the dead yeast off the bottom of the cone with a valve that is there. When ready to bottle you apparently can add your priming sugar and bottle directly out of the thing. No need to transfer from container to container.

Anyone using one of these? Likes, dislikes? Problems?

Reply to
Mac McAtee
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Conicals are really cool, easy to uise. Lots of folks steer away from plastic for all the old reasons, sanitation, o2 permability. They definately make brewing easier and in my opinion are worthwhile.

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Reply to
Bob

I have never used one but your current setup for temperature control may or may not work with the conical configuration.

Reply to
sozman

I use the 5 gallon model with a themometer mounted on the side. I will usually ferment the wort in it for about 5 days and then drain off the solid sediment in the bottom and let it sit for a few hours to recover from the motion, then drain the wort to a carboy from the spout used for bottling or sampling. This spoit is just the right height. I do not use it for bottling. I put a sealing ring around the inside of the lid so I can use 4 handclamps to seal the unit and have an airlock on top. This method adds more steps, but I get excellant results and the unit is not hard clean and sterilize.

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CCDiver

Sorry, i didn't read my reply before clicking on send and after reading it i realise it make no senses. The edited version is at the bottom.

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Altair

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