Just put a hairline fracture into my 2nd to last 6.5 gal glass carboy. It might be time to switch to a Better Bottle system. My only concern is the ability to use a FermaWrap with it. I dont have a dedicated fermentation chamber, so using a FermaWrap to bring temps up to ideal ranges and maintaining it is essential. Anybody have an experience with 1) Better Bottles in general and 2) the use of a FermaWrap with it?
I’ve been using better bottles exclusively for 4 or more years. I love them. Being in north texas, I don’t have a need for fermwrap, so I don’t use it.
I have been wanting to upgrade to speidels, but that will be down the line.
I have a 30 liter Speidel fermenter and it does a great job. Still have my 6.5 gallon and 5 gallon glass carboys which I haven’t used in a while.
I recommend looking at Speidel along with the Better Bottle.
In my opinion, worth the cost.
I have used Fermawrap with my BBs, and it works just fine.
I don’t use fermawrap, but I have used my Brew Belt with my BB’s with no issue.
+1. I use fermwraps on my BBs during the winter, never had a problem.
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I don’t think you can get fermwrap hot enough to melt plastic unless you are getting really crazy with it.