10 Gallon Batches

[RossBee]

I've been brewing 10 gallon batches since Christmas, on average a couple every 6 weeks. I've been using 5 gallon buckets and glass carboys as fermentors, both primary and secondary. After a significant carboy accident earlier this summer (26 stitches and about 3 pints on the floor - blood that is, luckily not beer), I'm looking for larger fermentation containers out of plastic, containers that will hold the 10 gallon batch size with some room to spare.

Has anyone come across larger that 10 gallon brew buckets at a reasonable cost. I found various sizes in Dieppe, however, they are dis-proportionally priced.

I could go to stainless, but the budget does not allow for this yet.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

[Celiacbrew]

I think I saw a thread on here where a couple of people bought plastic conicals from an agricultural supply company.

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Hopefully that will help you out some. Another option are the spiedel ones that have handles and what not. People on homebrewtalk seem to like them.

[Jamie D]

I use the larger version of these and am quite happy with them. Not a conical, but they are easy to clean, not too expensive and have worked well for me.

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[LiverDance]

Noble grape was selling large plastic containers in burnside for$20 they were food grade as well

[CorneliusAlphonse]

Yeah noble grape had like liquid malt extract containers, good call Brian

Edited for typo

[chalmers]

Lots of good suggestions, my only comment is "Ouch!" And I'm glad you are still able to type. Sounds nasty.

[RossBee]

Yup, it was one of those 54 L green Italian jobs. Had 7 of them, two broke, the other five are reserved for clear spirits (80%+ ABV) only. I have all sorts of 205L food grade barrels from the winery (work), but the brew day would be a bit too long. Unless, of course the mash tun and kettle got bigger, mmmhh? No, no, no, baby steps!!

[saosborne]

had a similar incident with a glass carboy (no stitches thankfully) using the better bottle carboys now. the 6 gal carboys are easier to move around plus with 10 gal batches you have options to split the batch, use different yeasts, dry hop etc.

[GasMD30]

had a similar incident with a glass carboy (no stitches thankfully) using the better bottle carboys now. the 6 gal carboys are easier to move around plus with 10 gal batches you have options to split the batch, use different yeasts, dry hop etc.

That's a good idea... Splitting for more experimentation!

[amartin]

There's always plastic buckets too. You can use two of them, and they're easier to carry around, and you can open them on top for easy skimming or top cropping.

[Celiacbrew]

I use the larger version of these and am quite happy with them. Not a conical, but they are easy to clean, not too expensive and have worked well for me.

http://morebeer.com/products/speidel-pl ... 9-gal.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you mind my asking where you purchased your fermentrr from? Canadian homebrewsupplies has these but they are a different shape than the one in your link. I like the idea of a bigger fermenter with almost the same footprint as a carboy.

[Jamie D]

Bought them from morebeer. Shipping was in the $35/per fermenter range and I didn't get tagged with any extra fees at the border, but that is hit or miss.

I use the larger version of these and am quite happy with them. Not a conical, but they are easy to clean, not too expensive and have worked well for me.

http://morebeer.com/products/speidel-pl ... 9-gal.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you mind my asking where you purchased your fermentrr from? Canadian homebrewsupplies has these but they are a different shape than the one in your link. I like the idea of a bigger fermenter with almost the same footprint as a carboy.

[Keith]

Bought them from morebeer. Shipping was in the $35/per fermenter range and I didn't get tagged with any extra fees at the border, but that is hit or miss.

I use the larger version of these and am quite happy with them. Not a conical, but they are easy to clean, not too expensive and have worked well for me.

http://morebeer.com/products/speidel-pl ... 9-gal.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you mind my asking where you purchased your fermentrr from? Canadian homebrewsupplies has these but they are a different shape than the one in your link. I like the idea of a bigger fermenter with almost the same footprint as a carboy.

If they ship USPS you wont' get dinged with extras. UPS or FedEx you will every time.

[GAM]

Noble grape was selling large plastic containers in burnside for$20 they were food grade as well

PITA to clean but I have used one. Mr. X had one too.

Sandy

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

I've got some you can have for free. I've got one now and will have more in a couple of weeks. 15 gallon extract barrels:

[Keith]

how big a bastard are those to clean Dave?

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

how big a bastard are those to clean Dave?

Not sure, never cleaned one. I just recycle them.

[Keith]

I may need to attempt this once I get some space free'd up in my house.

[GAM]

Dave, Put me down for one. I may regret this but...

Sandy

[jtmwhyte]

I'd love to get one of these Dave...

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

I have 1 empty right now and 3 that are full. I'm going to empty the 3 full ones over the next 2-3 weeks. Whomever makes it out first can have the empty one now and I'll try to let you guys know when the other ones are free.

[RossBee]

Liking the Speidel. Talked to McCain's, they bring in juice, unfortunately, only have 205 L drums. They used to have the 100 L that are similar to the Speidel.

Used to use the closed top concentrate drum that Dave is giving away, as was mentioned, quite difficult to clean, particularly since the seam runs across the top and it has standard bung holes.

I have lots of 20 litre buckets, found I can only fill them to about the 15 litre mark, otherwise I'm in a mess, so for a 10 gallon batch, that's 3 buckets. One additional reason I'm looking for a bigger vessel is the, as mentioned, footprint.

Search continues

[CorneliusAlphonse]

i think someone (maritime wine n spirits maybe?) has larger fermentation buckets, closer to 30L - lets you get a full 5-6gallon batch in there with loads of head room. someone on here uses or used to use them.

[mthibodeau]

Dave has the 30L buckets for sale