Homebrewing Fermenters with Chris Graham – BeerSmith Podcast #177

This week Chris Graham from MoreBeer joins me to discuss the wide variety of new fermenter options available to home brewers including everything from a simple bucket to a temperature controlled stainless conical.

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Topics in This Week’s Episode (56:38)

• Today my guest is Chris Graham. Chris is the President of MoreBeer and MoreFlavor Inc, one of the top online suppliers of homebrewing equipment and ingredients. Chris is also an instructor at the World renowned Seibel Brewing Institute.
• We start with a discussion of beginning fermenter options including the plastic bucket and also the glass carboy.
• We discuss additional options including the newer foodsafe plastic carboys and plastic bucket style fermenters.
• Chris shares some of the advantages of a conical fermenter which lets you harvest and separate yeast as well as enhances fermentation activity.
• We also discuss other shapes including the flat bottomed brew bucket style of fermenter.
• Chris talks about materials used in homebrew fermenters including glass, plastics and stainless steel and advantages of each.
• We discuss the new crop of high end fermenters that include conical stainless steel systems for both 5 gal (19 l) and 10 gal (38 l) batch sizes.
• Some new fermenters also include temperature control options – so we discuss briefly how these systems work.
• He explains pricing of fermenters which go all the way from a $10-15 bucket to potentially thousands of dollars for a glycol chilled stainless fermenter.
• Chris shares his closing thoughts.

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Thanks to Chris Graham for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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