First Carboy Catastrophe
#1
Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:11 AM
#2
Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:21 AM
#3
Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:45 AM
Interesting you say that...I'm wondering if I should replace with plastic, but I have no experience with them.Is this thread going to become a bash on the glass carboy now?
#4
Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:48 AM
#5
Posted 13 June 2009 - 11:21 AM
What do you secondary in? I've been using better bottles and have been pretty happy.Use what you like, but after breaking 3 carboys and losing gallons of pilsner, I went with buckets and never looked back. If they didn't make beer that's as good as the beer I make in carboys, I wouldn't use them.
#6
Posted 13 June 2009 - 11:33 AM
#7
Posted 14 June 2009 - 01:10 AM
Yeah, he still brews. That event was just the leverage that he needed to get the wife on board for a few stainless conicals.I bet home boy that got his hand messed up is still brewing. Does he use plastic? I think I'm gonna buy more buckets. Like badogg said it ain't worth losing the use of a limb, or your junk!
#8
Posted 14 June 2009 - 04:04 AM
#9
Posted 14 June 2009 - 04:32 AM
I'd say it was all win then.BrewBasserYeah, he still brews. That event was just the leverage that he needed to get the wife on board for a few stainless conicals.
#10
Posted 14 June 2009 - 05:20 AM
#11
Posted 14 June 2009 - 05:45 AM
#12
Posted 14 June 2009 - 06:00 AM
#13
Posted 14 June 2009 - 06:37 AM
#14
Posted 14 June 2009 - 06:38 AM
#15
Posted 14 June 2009 - 08:50 AM
I can't speek for Denny, but I primary in buckets and secondary in kegs.What do you secondary in? I've been using better bottles and have been pretty happy.
#16
Posted 14 June 2009 - 08:55 AM
#17
Posted 14 June 2009 - 09:33 AM
Also, nowadays, since the Mexican factory quit making glass carboys, better bottles are cheaper than glass also, at least that I have seen locally.After my broken shoulder healed, I decided to go to plastic. I wasn't sure if the joint would lock up on me, so I figured if I was going to drop something, I would rather not have to make another ER trip.Better Bottles are also lighter and they clean up very nicely.
Edited by miccullen, 14 June 2009 - 09:33 AM.
#18
Posted 14 June 2009 - 01:46 PM
We get our carboys from Italy. Thicker glass than those I have seen from Mexico.I use a glass carboy for secondary, but use plastic for primary. I only use the carboys for lagering.Also, nowadays, since the Mexican factory quit making glass carboys, better bottles are cheaper than glass also, at least that I have seen locally.
#19
Posted 14 June 2009 - 07:41 PM
#20
Posted 15 June 2009 - 03:21 AM
I believe Staples has them.Who has a link to someplace that sells the carboy "milk crates"?
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