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glass carboys
I am using a glass carboy for fermenting.......I need more because I need more beer........my friends and I go through it quick.........when I can drink this a cheap as natty light it's no wonder.
Regardless, does anyone know of a good place to get these cheap? I just need 1 or 2 more.
I feel like i am rushing the process as I run out of beer and try to move the beer into bottles in order to start my next batch.
This should eliminte that.............cheers
tis the season....
almost
Try craigslist in your area.
DC
+1 on the Craigslist suggestion. Last month I picked up 3 five gallon carboys for $27.
Also, check out a bottled water company that delivers those big five gallon plastic jugs if you have one nearby. I grabbed a couple old glass ones that Belmont Springs had sitting around in their warehouse. Got them for free too!
Another suggestion would be to ask a chem lab. They get acids shipped in carboys. My LHBS owner used to pick up truckloads of carboys from Boston Scientific. Of course, he knew a guy who knew a guy. But you don't get anything without asking, so sometimes you just need to ask.
If you have an "Old Time Pottery" store, you can get them for $15 each. The sell them as decorative items.
Craigslist is definitely your best bet. I was given 2 for helping someone move a few years ago. I put an ad on craigslist last year looking for kegs and a bunch of things. Someone had several carboys and they were around $10 each. The most I will shell out is $12, but I already have about 15 fermenters.
As for what FirePitBrew said about using bottled water jugs, BE CAREFUL! Every jug I have personally seen has HDPE 7, not 2, which is most food grade containers, and most also say not to fill with anything but water. Not saying you absolutely can not, but be sure it is HDPE 2.
Here is a link to types of plastics for food products:
http://virtualweberbullet.com/plastics.html
cubx wrote:
As for what FirePitBrew said about using bottled water jugs, BE CAREFUL! Every jug I have personally seen has HDPE 7, not 2, which is most food grade containers, and most also say not to fill with anything but water. Not saying you absolutely can not, but be sure it is HDPE 2.
I wasn't suggesting using the plastic water jugs. Maybe I should have been a little clearer. All water companies these days use plastic jugs, but they used to use glass carboys. Since the glass ones are out of commission, they might have a few sitting around somewhere collecting dust. I was lucky enough to find 2 old glass carboys that they were happy to give to me because they have no use for them these days.
Oh ok... because I thought you were saying to use those plastic jugs.
My thoughts are they will keep the old glass jugs around for a little while before sending off for recycling, since I doubt they have much space to keep them around. But it's definitely worth a try. And since they often have to pay to remove them, someone could probably pick them up for cheap, if not free.
ok got ya...........kind of sucks pumping out 45 for oen w shipping but I think thay are worth it. Drunk off the red ale.........lol I have a gut in mind an old school brewer.........I think he has a shed full of stuff. He offered it to me when i first started and there was alot.........that is where i got my start........i'll have to find him again!!!!
Number 7 plastics can still be food grade. All the number next to the recycling symbol tells you is what category plastic it is. Number 1 is LDPE, low density polyethyline. Number 2 is HDPE is high density. The number doesn't tell you if it's food grade or not, it just gives you a general type of plastic.
Most often number two is food grade, but not always. You need to check. Number 7 is simply the "other" category, which may or may not be food grade. Most often they aren't, but sometimes they are.
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