Anyone use Speidel plasic containers?

[Awfers]

Hi All,

I'm looking to upgrade my fermenter farm to something bigger than the 30 litre plastic buckets I'm currently using so I don't have to split my 40 litres of wort between two fermenters.

Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with using this sort of fermenter:

http://www.speidels-hausmosterei.de/Dri ... :_:27.html

Thanks,
Awfers

 

[graysalchemy]

I personally use the blue plastic food drums like this

They are cheap and work well. You can easily fit a tap to the bottom of it and drill a hole for an airlock though I never use one for beer. They are food grade as well.

I would have said the speidel ones will be expensive.

 

[Awfers]

I can get the 60 litre version for about £35 - £40, which for here isn't that bad. The big blue plastic ones I've seen here too, but they run about the same price oddly.

 

[graysalchemy]

That seems a very good price then no reason not to buy one in that case.

Similar ones over here are about £50-60 hence why a £10-20 blue container is attractive. I have 6 of them which i got for about a fiver each. :grin:

 

[critch]

ive used bigger speidels(500l) for cider, they're well made and durable, i can recomend the stuff ive used, hopefully the smaller ones are the same

 

[Steam brew]

A first class product we use 5 for cider the largest that Vigo sell they hold there shape well when you move them with liquid in them :

 

[Awfers]

Thanks everyone! :

I'll be placing my order tomorrow.


Cheers!
Awfers

 

[Brewberoza]

I personally use the blue plastic food drums like this

They are cheap and work well. You can easily fit a tap to the bottom of it and drill a hole for an airlock though I never use one for beer. They are food grade as well.

I would have said the speidel ones will be expensive.

This sounds a little too good to be true. Are they guaranteed to be made of a smooth finish and thus sanitisable? Are they hdpe plastic like commercial fermentation bins? How long do you continue to use them for?

They are a fraction of the price of the larger commercial ones. Is the average homebrewer being fleeced?