I am a bad boy but fell for it. This has been hard to get and I got an email last week stating they'd have 300 to ship and it was going to be first come, first serve. It was supposed to open at 12 PST and it started at 11:58 PST and by 12:02, all 300 were gone. Some guys ordered 6 or 8 buckets.
This is not a conical, just a couple of steps up from a plastic bucket (I'm really trying to not rationalize my impulsive purchase). I figure (more rationalizing) that I go thru buckets every 18 months due to scratches etc and in 13 years, this will pay for itself.
Let's see, 2 plastic buckets and a Speidel and now this. PAB's Brewery is up and running.
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PABs Brewing
Planning Brew good beer and live a hoppy life Fermenting
Drinking
Disfucted
Smelly Hops
(split batch) A Many Stringed Bow Up Next
Men In Black
Ooh, shiny. Good on ya Paul, no matter how you rationalize it, you deserve it.
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I'm glad that they're hard as Hell to get your hands on. Because I want one real bad and there'd be Hell - as well as SWMBO - to pay if I bought one at this point in time.
I'm still waiting for Brew Demon to come out with a larger version of their fermenter.
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
Up Next: FedoraDave's American Ale Fermenting/Conditioning Natural 20 Pale Ale -- Bull Terrier Best Bitter -- King Duncan's Porter -- Schöenwald Schwarzbier -- Littlejohn's Ale Drinking: Crown Top Pale Ale
I was going to get one or at least try, but I am on a small college student budget and I don't know how I would keep the temp controlled, as this would fit in my red bull cooler. That's awesome you snagged one! I'm hoping to see some updates when you put it to use!
#15 There Gose 'Nother Semester - Gone
#16 Two Brothers Brown - Gone
#17 Home Toasted Pale - Gone
#18 Porter Potty - Gone
#19 I do IPA - Gone
#20 Max Capacity Stout - One Left in the cellar
#21 Not So Independent Scotch Ale - Drinking
#22 Berliner Weisse - Gone
#23 Fruit Fallacy IPA - Carbonating
I think I can still fit this in my Cool Fermenting bag though I may have to use a blow off tube instead of an airlock. It's 24" high with an airlock and the bag is 24" high. It'll be close.
You can't really pull the yeast out the bottom like a conical but from the 100 or so people who've used them, they all seem to love them. Of course if I put down $175 I'd not want to say I wasted my money. But, I wouldn't be me if I spent $175 and felt good about it.
No food for a month for me!
PABs Brewing
Planning Brew good beer and live a hoppy life Fermenting
Drinking
Disfucted
Smelly Hops
(split batch) A Many Stringed Bow Up Next
Men In Black
i'm so jealous. swmbo's been a real sport about this hobby so far, but there are limits. if somebody made a 6.5 gal plastic one, it would probably be in my price range.
"Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
-- Quaintest thoughts -- Queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today."
