Fermentation Equipment

Plastic Buckets: 6 Gallon food-grade polyethylene buckets with handle. Made of translucent material so you can tell what's happening inside to some degree. Use as a fermenter, a bottling tank or a settling tank to let trub and hop pellet particles settle out after the boil. Comes either undrilled or drilled with a hole to accept our spigot and SpigotGuard. Order lid separately.
Undrilled: BUCKPLN $10.50
Drilled for Spigot: BUCKSPG $11.00
Standard Bucket Lids: Lid for our plastic buckets. Has a very thin "flowed in" gasket that helps seal the lid, but still allows easy removal. Comes either undrilled or drilled with a hole in the center for a #2 stopper for use as a fermenter lid.
Undrilled: LIDPLN $4.00
Drilled: LIDHOLE $4.50

Spigot: Plastic spigot for use with our plastic buckets, eliminates the need to siphon and controls flow. Takes a 1" hole. Use with our SpigotGuard^tm (below) for the ultimate in siphon-free brewing. Not recommended for hot liquids. Comes with a backnut and one washer. Outflow takes 3/8" ID vinyl tubing. SPIGOT: $3.75   Extra spigot washers:  SPIGWSHR  $0.50 ea. 

SpigotGuard^tm: HopTech's unique device takes the place of the spigot's backnut and acts like a siphon tube placed just above the sediment. When the bucket is filled, air is trapped in the spigot keeping the spigot clean and dry during fermentation/settling, hence the name. Also serves to get the hole effectively lower than is possible with a spigot alone. Made of rigid, food grade plastic, fits our spigot and most others. If retrofitting an existing bucket, your hole center must be approximately 2 1/8" from the bucket's inside bottom to leave approximately 1/2" of clearance for the yeast/trub to settle. SPIGARD: $2.25 (note: the picture shows the SpigotGuard, Spigot and the extra washer - order all three if you want what's in the picture)

Complete Fermenter Setup:  For ease of ordering we've combined our plastic drilled bucket, drilled lid, spigot,  SpigotGuard^tm, #2 stopper and an airlock into a single item number.  Same price as if you'd ordered the items separately, just more convenient to order.  FERMTR: $23.25

Airlock: Three piece airlock also known as a fermentation lock or "bubbler". We like the three piece design better than all others. AIRLOCK: $1.25 (A)

Rubber Stoppers: White, odorless rubber stoppers. All stoppers are drilled to accept 3/8" OD tubing, such as racking canes, airlocks, etc. Use our Stopper Stopper below to convert any of these to a stopper without a hole.

Stopper Stoppers: New! This is actually a 000 size stopper that can be used to stop up the hole in any of our other stoppers. Works so well we're no longer selling solid stoppers. STOP000 $0.35 each. 

Super Siphon:  This is the best way to siphon beer & wine. With our Super Siphon, you can rack easier and faster than before. 3.5 gallons per minute low rate. ¾ inch copper pump with glass ball and stainless steel spring. Comes with a 6-foot ½ inch food grade hose. You will never use a racking cane again. We feel this is the best self-priming siphon on the market. Nothing to take apart so it is easy to clean.  SIPHON $10.00 (C)
 

Vinyl Tubing: Food grade clear vinyl tubing. 5/16 and 3/8" IDs are thin walls for extra flexibility and ease of use. 3/16 and 1/4" are thick wall for kegging systems. Order by the foot.

In-line Ball Valve: Great for regulating or stopping flow, especially in mashing systems. We use one on the output of our hot liquor tank for regulating the flow to the Phil's Sparger, and a second valve to stop and control the flow from the mash/lauter tun. Made of polyethylene and fits 3/8" ID tubing. VALVE38 $2.50 (C)

Funnel: Large 8 1/4" diameter funnel, great for filling carboys if you can't use vinyl tubing. Made of high density food grade polyethylene. FUNNEL8 $4.50 (D)

Carboy Brush: This long handled, angled brush is virtually a necessity to dislodge stubborn deposits if you use carboys. CARBRSH $5.25 (E)

Carboy Spray Wand: One of the best items to come along in years, this spray wand really blasts the inside of carboys, kegs and other hard to reach spots. 6 radial jets and one downward jet produce an extremely high pressure spray with normal water pressure. Made of brass and comes with a 3' vinyl tube and brass female hose fitting. Adapts to any household faucet with our hose bib aerator/adapter (below). SPRYWND $11.95 (F) 

Bottle/Carboy Washer: Attaches to most any faucet (with hose bib aerator/adapter). Turn on the water and the unique valve stops the flow. Put on a bottle (or carboy) and a blast of water is released to clean and rinse your bottles in seconds rather than minutes. Won't replace a brush for stubborn deposits but it sure helps. New, improved model is different from picture and uses no solder. BOTWSHR $10.95  (G) 

Aerator/Adapter: Adapts both inside and outside common aerator threads to hose bib to use bottle washers, our spray wand and other accessories. Includes a screen which acts like a mild aerator so the adapter can be left in place if desired. AERADP: $3.95 (H)

Carbonating/Aerating Stone: We are now carrying "The Stone" which is a very nice, sintered stainless steel "air stone" that can be used for either carbonating your beer (in a keg) or for oxygenating your wort (when used with a suitable supply of compressed air or oxygen). The Stone has a built-in connection for 1/4" vinyl tubing, and the entire assembly is made of stainless steel. Note that if using this product to aerate your wort (highly recommended) that it will generate a considerable amount of foam. The foam can be controlled with our Foam Control product (see the Chemicals Section of our catalog for more details). The Stone: Item Number STONE $29.95 each.  

Wort Oxygenating Kit: A mini-regulator that fits a standard "Bernz-o-matic" and other brands of disposable oxygen cylinder (available at most any hardware store), a four foot length of hose and a mini-aeration stone. The stone is made from sintered stainless steel. Your beers will improve immensely when aerated with pure oxygen. Comes with instructions. You supply the oxygen bottle (despite what you may read or others may tell you, the hardware store oxygen is fine for beer and is the identical item others are selling for much more with their own label on it). This will generate a considerable amount of foam, which can be controlled with our Foam Control product (see the Chemicals section of our catalog for more details). OXYKIT: $33.95 Includes regulator, stone, tubing and instructions.   

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