Using a 5 gallon plastic water bottle as beer fermentor?!
Anyone out there use the bottles?
Answers: I currently use 6 gallon buckets to ferment my beer. I've been toying with the idea of using a 5+ gallon water bottle like a glass carboy. Several of the brew shops sell these plastic bottles, but I'm not sure what Resin id code should I be looking for. My buckets are a 2 and the bottle I have is a 1.
Anyone out there use the bottles?
I use something very similar made by a company called Better Bottle which is essentially a 5 gallon water jug with recycle code 1 on it (PET plastic) which is the best plastic you can use to not retain flavors from cleaners and previous batches of brew. So to answer your question, yes you can use 5 gallon water bottles. They use a size 10 or 10.5 rubber bung. I would still use the buckets for your primary fermentation just because they are easier to clean.
it would be ok but make sure you let the wort cool down before you put it in there.and i am sure it will hold the presure. get the right air lock.gas release.
Yeah, they're food grade and they work great. Like mentioned above, the better bottles are sold at brew shops are the same thing. Make sure to use them as secondary fermenters, or at least have a really good blow off tube if you're using it for primary.