I have some empty 5 gallon water jugs from my water cooler at work. Can I use them as carboys to brew beer/wine?
Plastic ID is 7 and it says they should only be used for water.
2007-04-18 17:00:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
One of the biggest problems I have had with plastic carboys is that after they are used and cleaned a few times they seem to get contaminated. Even after a good sanitizing with chlorine or Iodine I will get a weird soil tasting fungus in my wort. Glass is the way to go, copper, stainless, or even an Oak barrel. I guess the water cooler jugs are clean enough considering they were only used once and for water. But plastic is just no good. Go old school.
2007-04-18 17:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by stupidity_of_pride 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 Gallon Water Cooler Jug
2016-10-06 12:43:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a couple of buddies that make their own beer and they both use a combination of those plastic water jugs and glass carboys to make their beer and I can't tell the difference, so I would have to say yes, even though I have always used glass myself
2007-04-18 17:05:13 · answer #3 · answered by herr_mungus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! You need to not fill them up to capacity, but that's what most wine or beer "recipes" say anyway. See this site:
http://www.homecraft.on.ca/instructions.htm
2007-04-18 17:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by evilcookielady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those plastic jigs are not made from food grade plastic. Also, you can't get a tight seal on them. I wouldn't use them.
2007-04-19 02:28:03 · answer #5 · answered by dogglebe 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋