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Can I use those 5-gallon water bottles as fermenters?

April 26, 2017bottles fermenters water

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Can I use those 5-gallon water bottles as fermenters?

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The best answer is that #1 and #2 recyclable bottles should be great for primary or secondary vessels. Others, particularly #7s, may be 02 permeable at best and may leach chemicals into your beer at worst. If you chance it with a #7 I’d use it for short-term primary fermentations.