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Offline jamie_savoie

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15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« on: July 09, 2013, 10:15:17 AM »
What do you guys use or recommend on the cheap side for fermenting 10-15 gallons batches?  Conical are awesome but out of my league (for now).  I’m thinking using a demijon but I’d rather use a bucket that’s easily cleanable or something like that.

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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2013, 10:29:39 AM »
Know anybody at the McCain plant Jamie? You might be able to score some of those blue HDPE barrels that pizza sauce comes in.

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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2013, 01:18:22 PM »
Hey Jamie.

I bought three 58 litre plastic buckets from some guy out Hanwell Road. He sells bulk car wash to a couple of the gas stations. I think I paid him like 10 bucks a piece and they work very well. You can pretty easily squeeze 12 gallons or so in one of them.

I'll take a look to see if I can find his information. I know where he lives from when I picked them up so you could always just go knock on his door worst case scenario lol
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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2013, 01:27:51 PM »
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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2013, 08:32:53 AM »
thanks Kyle, I'll check when I'm in town this w-e!  I also know know a guy from GF who sellls those big blue plastic barrels, maybe he has smaller one

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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
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Re: 15-20 gallons fermenter bucket?
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2013, 08:31:26 AM »
I bought one of those blue barrels off the side of the road a few years back on the way back to Fredericton from Macadam.  $15 or so.  I still see them for sale really cheap every once in a while.  I originally bought it for canoeing but lately it has been sitting empty behind my shed.  After reading this post, I think it will get cleaned up and use it to store some grain.  Great idea DandyMason.
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