Customer Reviews for 15l Stainless Steel Beer Wine Fermenter Beer In-vessel Brew Bucket Brew Bucket

I have been a home brewer for about 8 years now and wanted to step up my game with fermenting containers by going stainless. As several reviews state, the spigot is a plastic ball valve that really sucks, liquids barely trickle out. The lid/gasket seal sucks, I had to use food grade silicon to get it to finally hold a good seal for fermentation. Also, someone else mentioned clean, clean, clean, this this is filthy when you pull it from the packaging and looked to have some sort of greasy film all over it. I washed this thing with a heavy de greaser, followed by several PBW cleaner washings, finishing up with a good Star San rinse prior to first use. After the first use I pulled a 1/2 stainless steel ball valve I had from a sparg tank conversion to fix the above problem with a 1/2 drain for speedier transfers. With all that said, it is heavy duty pot, not sure If I would heat my wort in it, but with the new ball valve and a good bead of silicon it works fine. I did purchase another stainless fermenting container from a different vendor that is much better for only 20 buck more (it was on sale by the way, usually about 200 bucks) If you don't have a lot of cash and cant find a similar sized one on sale as I did shortly after receiving this one Clean the hell out of it use a bit of silicon to ensure a good seal and if you want get that crappy plastic ball valve replaced and you will be fine.

strong durable design, wish the pickup for the fluid was lower, need to add 1 gallon before fluid comes out of the spout. Other than that its great!

Works great, good shopping experience.

This was easy to use and clean. Lighter than I thought it would be.

Attractive. Got it for my wife's wine but she has turned it into a flower vase and loves it.

I love it. I used it to make my own spirits

Ok..first off, I received the product with a broken handle on the spigot. It is plastic (the handle) but I can manually move it so it's not a total loss. the Stainless seems to be of good quality and pretty heavy. Notice I think this is an URN that hasn't been modified with a heating element as of yet. You can see the bottom which places the pot about 3 inches above the ground. It is spot welded on. Average quality but solid. Notice the Silicon gasket that is removable. This is fine for cleaning. Not sure what you do if it gets damaged though. The included airlock is a solid plastic bung (well..a plug) which really doesn't look like it will be sanitary. It's banged up. I measured for a replacement rubber bung and I think a #6.5 might work and then just add your own airlock. Notice that the spigot is just put on in a weld less fashion. Not sure the size of the hole but i assume you could remove it and put on a quality / standard hardware. The included one probably will work fine with some silicon tubing.. Just Star San the beast for a while. I assume this is a get what you pay for and for those who have been looking at "real" stainless fermentors (sic SSBrewtec etc. ) the $50 savings may be worth it.. but you get what you pay for. We shall see what happens after the first live run of it.

Disclaimer- I don't own one of these.Product looks nice but your airlock is upside down...make me question even considering the product.

Came as expected

I bought this for my son in law and he just loves it! And his beer brewing is so much easier with this!