80 L fermenters in vic

by **smegory** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:54 pm

i just noticed these 80L olive containers :dance: on both gumtree http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/craigieb ... /214397253 and the same guy on ebay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/80-litre-foo ... 3cce779612
hope this helps someone they look fantastic but unfortunatly he wont post or ship :violin:

by **googe** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:35 pm

Yeah mate there great looking fermenterp, Been meaning to get up there for ages now and get some, never enough hours in the day!! :angry-banghead: he must have tons of them cause he's been advertising them for months and months!.

by **MattyC** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:40 pm

That's what I use and they work well. They seal up nice and tight and are the perfect size to put down a rum wash for a 50L keg and leave some head space for foam.

Just takes a few cleans to get the olive smell out of them

by **crow** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:11 am

I got a few or them , they're good :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **old bear** » Mon May 20, 2013 8:33 pm

Picked up a couple of these today, what would be the best way to clean them, hot soapy water or something else?

by **wedwards** » Mon May 20, 2013 8:58 pm

I use napisan unscented (the pink one) for all my brew cleaning - it's cheap and i normally use a capful per 30 litres of water for real dirty stuff. Fill up fermenter and let it soak at least a day for uncleaned ones (2 days is better if its real nasty with oils and stuff inside), then scrub the daylights out of it. Make sure you put a tap in it before you do all this or you will have some fun later.

Napisan can just be rinsed off with water and you are good to go.

by **old bear** » Mon May 20, 2013 9:15 pm

Thanks for the tip about napisan, i will see if i can get some tomorrow. I wasn't going to put a tap in it, just use a siphon hose. What do you mean that i will have some fun if i don't put a tap in?

by **Brendan** » Mon May 20, 2013 11:50 pm

You can buy Sodium Percarbonate (which is what Napisan is) from decent home brew shops...you will get it much stronger for less...a tub of it cost me about $7, and ive used about 10% of it in over a year (it's only a teaspoon in a litre or so of water)...so about 70 cents a year then ;-)

by **wedwards** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:13 am

If you are prepared to siphon then you are doing better than my first attempt hahaha