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Anyone have experience with brewing in a stainless steel fermenter? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by pwacata@beehaw.org to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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I recently acquired a stainless steel conical fermenter as a long-desired upgrade to my brewing setup - I've been using 5gal plastic carboys until now, but I wanted to move away from them as I'm a bit leery of plastics leaching out while stuff sits in there for months at a time.

Does anyone here have experience with stainless fermenters? I'm especially interested in any cleaning tips and changes to flavor I should expect. Thanks in advance :)

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[–] Rangelus 3 points 1 year ago

As others have said, there should be no flavours imparted by the stainless.

Make sure to passivate before use with citric acid.

For cleaning, sodium percarbonate, PBW or even a caustic cleaner will work. At my brewery I use PBW, which works perfectly.