Using Plastic in 1st fermentation

Exerpt from John Palmer's How To Brew: "The plastic buckets are slightly less expensive than the glass and much safer to handle. The buckets have the outstanding option of being fitted with spigots, which makes siphoning unnecessary; a real plus. The buckets are typically 6 gallons, giving 1 gallon of headspace for the fermentation, which is usually sufficient."

I have 5 each of the 6½-gallon buckets and no glass at all. They are easy to clean and sanitize. Just take care to not scratch the inside. Once in a while, I will soak mine in unscented bleach to clean them up nice and pretty.

Wild

I find them economical and easy to clean.

But require care not to scratch(I only use plastic tools to clean, or stir the wort).

imho,

tom @

Used to use a 6.5 gal glass carboy--it slipped out of my old fat fingers, took out the fibrglass sink(basement). right now there is beer fermenting in

Buzz

Works great for me.

I find that they are the easiest to clean and sanitize.

Never had any problems.

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As long as it's food grade... should work fine (and does for me)

Just remembered something. I stopped using 5 gallon buckets when one, blow a lot of foam. I used 6 gallon buckets now. You should be able to pick them up at your local home brew store.

later,

tom