What is the one thing you look for in a fermenter?

Great breakdown! I agree with you, plastic is the way to go for a newer homebrewer, no question about it. I used buckets for a long time and had great experiences. I've found the more expensive stuff really just adds convenience/consistency factors that may or may not be worth the cost to everyone.

Great information well done!!! I started with the Mr. beer keg moved on to a brew demon conical now I just purchased my Anvil bucket for my first all grain brew next weekend hopefully it will be the upgrade I’m looking for!! Keep up the great work!

Love my SS Brew Bucket... so easy to clean, and racking every last of beer to a keg with rotating dip tube and coned bottom is so satisfying!!

Been using mostly 1 gallon glass carboy. Have 20 of them at various stages of fermentation and aging right now. My last batch was done in a 5 gallon plastic bucket. I think for a while I will go with that, about the same amount of work and 5 times more wine produced. My next upgrade is very likely gonna be a conical 14 gallon stainless fermenter but the price is really steep. I wish that conical plastic fermenter were not so expensive. The only advantage to them is not having to rack... but at 150$ average price, I feel that is very expensive for something like that. Thanks for the video.

I switched from plastic buckets to a SS conical. Genus brewing taught me well... I always sterilize it with boiling water. The ball valves, if opened daily, can infect your brew. I only open the ball valve when I bottle.

Dig the video! And I dig my fermzilla all rounder too! Although I’m switching over to fermenting in kegs as we speak that way I can ferment 2 beers at a time. I will definitely miss being able to see fermentation happen though, that part always amazes me. Cheers!

I like the conical for trub removal, using fermentasaurus and dispense sometimes but like the closed aspects and so no oxygen and easy transfer to keg or bottle. Use my first plastic fermenting bucket for wine and cleaning fluids.

Great video and some awesome tips!

That was actually really thorough! I’ve been through quite a few plastic bucket, big mouth, anvil bucket and now the chronical Ss but the end goal has to be the ss unitank. Just need that sponsorship deal to roll in 🤣

Love that fastferment

Nice one, Brusho!

When I was doing fab and weld apprenticeship, stainless steel was a strange beast. Yes it's incredibly tough and wears down saws like nobody's business... but surface scratches were ridiculously easy, which was frustrating when you're trying to make high end stair rails. With this said, I will still look to get a stainless steel one next time I buy, along with a stainless steel wort boiler.

The simplest thing I have done is take a gallon of Arizona Iced Tea (no preservatives and always on sale!). I just bought a bung to fit and used the usual lock. Add yeast and wait until it stops. Often soft drinks have an SG of 1.040-1.050 for five-ish percent ABV, but I like adding Honey.

Your videos are great! This one was super informative. Are you planning on doing any videos on mead? Specifically bottle conditioned recipes?

Awesome video! 🍺

Great Video bro! I'm still using all the three but my fav so far is the SS, I also have a fermzilla all raounder but I haven't put my hands or well my wort in it hahaha, cheers! 🍻🍻

Awesome video you really covered everything! When I purchase a fermenter I look for one that makes me feel adequate🍻🤣

I bought a 15 gallon ball lock Torpedo keg and trimmed the dip tube a bit to ferment 10 gallon batches. Hard to beat a stainless, pressurized fermenter at that size for around $200. Gonna pick up a couple more.

Great video! I switched to a plastic wide mouth carboy with a spigot after having used standard glass carboys and I'll never go back. The benefits just FAR outweigh the potential risks for me.

Only been brewing a few years swear by the 30L Spiedel fermenters.

Aww, you didn't mention mead at the beginning! Sad face! Awesome vid, very informative! You should've mentioned how cool each fermenter looks, tho - I prefer glass carboys and spherical pressure fermenters, cause they make me feel like an alchemist!

One that will fit into a fridge. 25ltr tall bucket that goes into a fridge with a heat belt round it. Using a control box we can keep the temp constant within 0.5 Celsius. Fridge second hand, all in all cost £30 saving £1000 on a pre-made fermentation kit. Great vid btw, never looked into pressure fermenting.

I'm still using buckets and it's worked out fine for me, but man I'm so tempted to get a SS Conical.... Hello Stimi Check, come to papa!

+1 vote for a corny keg fermentation video!

About to try fermenting in a corny keg. Down fall.. batch is a 5 gallon recipe and keg is a 5 gallon max.. going to have to split the wort and yeast. For going the sounding valve for a blow off hose until I see how this works out.

Thanks for the great info Trent. Hubby has a pyrex fermenter we've had for over 30 years. He bumped it last brew and it now has a crack in the base. Booooo. It's been great brewing in it (he does it - not me) as you can see fermentation and watch the process.

I used the sovereign stainless frementor 8.4 gal

Hey Trent! I’m a new subscriber to your videos and I’m also new to making Kombucha at home. I would like to start brewing hard booch. I may have a misconception that hard booch can’t be made in plastic? Or that plastic can ruin your SCOBY? Can you please point me in the right direction for which videos I should start watching of yours to start making hard booch? Thanks!

One point about brewing bucket. If you always siphon to a bottling bucket, you'd be better off fermenting in a bucket without spigot. Less to clean, getting spigot 100% clean is a chore.

I brought a basic plastic fermenter in 2006. It is currently sitting on my desk behind me with 2 gallons of carrot wine doing it's primary fermentation.

Anything with a spigot above the trub line so you can package directly from the FV. Just avoid racking from one vessel to another....its just an unnecessary risk

Keg fermenter vid plz 😁

Great channel Trent. May have accidentally fat thumbed a thumbs down. Please disregard! Your content is so understandable and relevant!

Fermzilla all rounder all the weyyy

If you put 5 gals. in a carboy and ferment, will it puke into the airlock?

another great one, PLASTIC 4 LIFE!!!

Send this to Anvil!

You might want to update this video as the information on using plastics is not very good.

>buy a cheap plastic bucket > crack a hole in the lid >hot glue a balloon to the hole Perfection :thumbs_up:

have been using small ultrasonic cleaners for making Aging alcohol Cannabis edibles, Tinctures and Coloidal Silver.I had the Idea to try it on my Fermentation of grain mash. My hopes were to make the mash into smaller particles and increasing surface area. I hoped to increase Bioavailability for the yeast. The 6 gal. plastic bucket I used for it kept blowing its top off as the bubbler was unable to keep up with the new rate of fermentation. I had to resort to taping the lid down with duct tape, Watching the bucket bulge from unreleased pressure and hoping it did not explode. !!WARNING DO NOT USE A GLASS VESSEL FOR FERMENTING IF YOU SHOULD TRY THIS METHOD!! I had hoped to show the increased speed of fermentation in this video. I made two mistakes. I used some pretty old yeast and I did not malt the grain first. Still the control had not even started before the ultrasounde grain had filled its bag full. I believe if I had used a malted grain and newer Yeast the results would have been more dramatic for you to see. I am very new to brewing, only three batches with using ultrasound to decrease particle size the third batch. I did try a sugar wash 4th batch using the ultrasound but saw no changes in the speed of fermentation. . I am hoping someone with a better set up and greater brewing knowledge can experiment with this and show the actual rate of increase. (I believe it to be about 300% or better) This could have a major significance in such a large market as alcohol and fuel.A factor to consider is stirring the grai water mixture in the ultrasound as a heavy layer of grain at the bottom may reduce effectiveness. I used a 60 watt, 40khz ultrasound unit with just one transducer on this video . On the earlier bucket run I used a home made unit with two 40 khz transducers. Finding the optimal range of transducers, frequency , volume, stir rate and length of time I leave to future brewers with more capital and time to find kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtKRet2QmNOvmIk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mMWdl9mkqqyXpqM.html