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Review on ๐Ÿบ CraftABrew BE-CAT Catalyst Fermentation System - 6.5 Gallon Conical Fermenter for Home Beer Brewing & Wine Making by Brian Inman

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Better than a bottle

Excellent product. Easy to clean. It's easy to reduce the amount of accumulated yeast before pouring it into the keg. Stable stand, easy to carry even when fully loaded. The lid and cork seal were fine although the headroom was small. So if someone was brewing a beer with a high initial specific gravity and strong yeasts, I could possibly see problems holding the cork in place, but that could be the case with glass bottles, because well. I added an optional stopcock kit and got better results by replacing the included soft and easily deformable inner o-ring with a standard Cornelius Keg ball valve o-ring. Drilling to add a stopcock, even with a small pilot hole, resulted in a small 1-2mm chip in the hard plastic. Not strong enough to crush the o-rings, but if I had to do it again I'd familiarize myself with drilling hard plastic/acrylic first.

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  • Large selection
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