🔧 Convenient 2 Gallon Plastic Fermenter with Drilled Lid for Easy Brewing Review

This is a very good fermentation bucket. I know people have complained that it's not hermetic, but that's because it has to be hacked. When used for the first time, the threshold was not airtight and, as expected, very difficult to open. That was the last time I had a leak problem. I just spray the rim of the lid with disinfectant, snap it open and it seals well. As I write this, I start to burp. Just think of it as new shoes or boots that need to be broken in before they fit comfortably. I…

You get what you pay for. This is a cheap solution. Having used glass brew bottles in the past, I wanted something with a wider mouth for easy cleaning at an affordable price, as well as being lighter in weight and slightly larger in volume. The bucket I received was not airtight. However, I put a food grade rubber band around the rim of the bucket to solve this problem. This bucket is made of HDPE, so it's very safe for brewing, easy to clean, and fairly stain-resistant. That everything is…

Huge garish Ohio Homebrewing logo that I can't remove. Tons of large packaging and inventory stickers and they left a hard, sticky sticker inside and out which made the initial cleaning and disinfecting very difficult and time consuming. I also noticed the bucket, even though it's a cheap item, pretty cheap. did. Very thin plastic, rubber stopper does not sit flush with the lid. The lid is very difficult to close and closes tightly. In fact I thought the fermentation wasn't going to start and…