Questions tagged [carboy]
A jug like container characterized by a narrow opening at its top. Often made from glass however plastic is becoming more popular. Used for primary and/or secondary fermentation and storage of beer, wine and/or meads.
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Where to buy 2 Gallon or 4 Gallon carboy?
I am looking specifically for 2 gallon or 4 gallon carboys. I have looked on eBay, Amazon, Homebrewing, and many more, but I cannot find a 2 gallon or a 4 gallon glass carboy. There might be some ...
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Didn’t completely add a stopper CraftABrew
I want to know if this is a blunder. I put some water but I didn’t have the lid that I’m holding on my hand. It’s been 2 weeks like this and I noticed it when I was adding cascade hops at the end of 2 ...
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Why are we missing a 5.5 gallon carboy?
Most winemaker's arsenals have or have available to them carboys from sizes 7.5 gallons all the way down to tiny tincture bottles, however one size that seems to be missing from the list is 5.5 ...
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Batch Management - How do you manage your batches for container volume?
So what do you feel is the best way to manage batch sizes?
Personally make oversize batches and try to fit it in the largest carboy I have. For subsequent rackings, I will size the carboy down a size ...
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Has your airlock ever shot out of your carboy?
I made a kettle sour and added guava in secondary. Everything was going well for a week. I went out of town for the weekend and noticed my carboy stopper and airlock about three feet away on the floor....
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Carbonation process - Using the carboy
I've been homebrewing for a few months now (it's now my 15th liter!) and i was thinking about making my beer clearer/better.
The best thing i could come up with, in my homebrew gear, was trying to ...
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Carboy keep overflowing
I have a 19 liter carboy, and put a 18 liter wort. 10 hours later I woke up and noticed carboy overflow krausen all over it.
I am concerned whether air lock will clogged down and explode. I will not ...
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Will dry hopping without a hop bag give me "hop floaties"?
I've read numerous posts and articles on dry hopping in primary, secondary, and kegs. My current brew calls (AIPA) calls for dry hopping. I've think, after reading these articles, that I'd like to ...
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[CIDER]: Can I rack in day 4 if there are 20mm of sediments and fermentation is over?
Can I rack in day 4 if there are 20mm of sediments and fermentation is over? Just to get the cider in a second clean fermentation vessel.
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Can I rack to and clear my wine in a lidded plastic bucket without a stopper?
I'm making a Chardonnay wine kit for the first time ever, so bear with me here.
The instructions say to rack the wine from the primary fermenter (which they suggested be a food safe HDPE plastic ...
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Carboy size 3 or 5 gallon? please
I've got a 15 litre, 3.9 gallon batch of hard cider (I juiced the apples myself and lost the will to live after 20kg). Should I get a 3 gallon or 5 gallon carboy?
I read that when moving the cider ...
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Special considerations for primary fermentation in a carboy?
I brewed my first batch this weekend (Scottish Ale) and have been keeping an eye on it during primary, largely out of curiosity but also first-timer's paranoia.
We added too much water before ...
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Should I worry about this smell?
I have stout fermenting and it has been in my carboy for a little over a week. Yesterday I opened the carboy to make a small intial addition of coffee beans and cacao nibs. Well when I opened it and ...
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Contamination concerns when removing stopper?
This might seem dumb to most, but it's only my third batch and I just need some reassurance. So, I occasionally pop out the rubber stopper on my carboy to smell the brew and see if anything funky ...
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Better Bottle carboy vs. generic PET carboy
From what I've seen, the 'Better Bottle' carboy is just a PET bottle with a brand name on it. I read that there are some PET carboys that have a special layer of oxygen impermeable material between ...
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