by hillzabilly » Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:08 pm
The other bit of equipment I found very helpful when scaleing up to a 200lt fermenting vessel was a long paddle ,I made one from some stainless leftovers I had,thats about 140cm long with a 15cm by 30cm paddle blade welded on the end of a 1inch piece of stainless tube,makes dissolveing sugar ,stirring and degassing much easier,stainless is my standard but I do know one or two people that use an ex-canoo or kyak paddle as well and I think thats ok too,there are wooden mashing paddles available but I consider them to be problematic to keep clean and sanitized for fermenting without an added risk of contamination,wich for such large fermenters is going ta cost a lot more for a failier than a 25lt one.cheers hillzabilly ;-)