I love my carboys. I hate cleaning them. I hate doing laundry too, but not enough to go full-on Weazeltoe. Kilts are just a gateway you know.
I’ve accumulated too many carboys over the years to change. I’ve broken 1 in 12 years.
To Beersk,
Morebeer is taking pre-orders on them. I signed up for mine yesterday. Of course I have no idea when it may arrive.
http://morebeer.com/category/ss-brewing-technologies-fermenters.html
I sold mine. It was liberating.
What justifies the extra expense for this fermenter? It looks great. It has great bling factor. Stainless is nice. The lid coming completely off is nice. The conical shape is interesting but the conical is not ported so you cannot evacuate the yeast. The valve to run off the beer at the bottom is cool but I would worry about it being too close to the trub to be useful (although maybe you could partially evacuate the yeast if the trub was too high).
Anyway having just spent $60 for a Speidel I don’t have much room to talk since I could get everything a Speidel has for half the price with a 7.9 gallon bucket.
Just wondering.
Spigots are fine if you use the right ones. And keep them clean just like everything else. I trust my processes. It’s not like we are doing abdominal surgery; and the surgeons only sanitize the patient with a topical application.
Good on ya for getting rid of the glass. I’ll take one anecdotal injury over 10 “never had a problem” type statements.
+1
My spigot just unscrews and pops apart into two easily cleanable pieces.
As well, I’ve read enough horror stories of broken glass car boys and emergency room visits to keep me away from them, kids in the house and everything else it’s just not worth it to me
Thanks. I’ll have to consider that. Someday…
For now, I brew 4 gallon all grain batches inside on the stove and ferment in kegs. Works out pretty well. I like a fermenter you can rely on to last a lifetime. The Brew Bucket would probably be that.
Just HDPE 7 gal. buckets I buy at the LHBS.
There’s no price listed yet, but Blichamnn has the Cornical coming out:
http://www.blichmannengineering.com/new-innovations-coming-soon
Cornicaltm MODULAR KEGGING AND FERMENTING SYSTEM
The next innovation coming off our workstations is a revolutionary NEW PATENT PENDING Cornicaltm MODULAR KEGGING AND FERMENTING SYSTEM. Built with a Corny keg at its core, we’ve integrated an exchangable bottom to allow you to ferment with our conical bottom, then flip it over, switch to a standard keg bottom, and you’re ready to carbonate and dispense! The beauty of this system is the elimination of transferring the beer and also the competitive price! The keg body is Italian made on modern automated machinery - no inferior welds like other imports. The conical bottom is one piece and made right here at home! We’ll be in production this summer - check back for updates!!!
It’s not April 1st is it?
Sooo, how do you go about removing the conical piece without stirring up the yeast or dumping your beer. I’m not “seeing” the vision.
I would guess the idea is to dump the yeast from the bottom of the conical part (I am assuming there is a bottom dump valve), then turn the whole thing upside down, swap the bottom section and turn it right side up again.
it seems to me though that even with the cone you wouldn’t gain enough headspace to actually ferment a 5 gallon batch in it.
My thoughts too. Ideally with the cone on you’d get ~ 6.5 gallons capacity to give room for headspace, but I dunno. ???
You’re probably right Jonathan. I don’t know, I bet for the price they’ll ask for this it makes an even better case for me to support the BruGear Kickstarter and order the damn 14 gal. conical already. Anyone mind if I rationalize. 
I know buckets are cheaper, but I think my BBs only cost like $20 each or so. Not a lot of bling factor, but they’re in my basement which ain’t so fancy anyway. Unless you like washing machines and furnaces and stuff like that.
I just don’t see the point in a convertible keg fermenter.
That cornical is just weird. Considering it uses an italian keg, price will be $250 minimum.
My 7.9 gallon buckets were $30 but after six years… that’s $5 a year each and going down. And see no need to replace them.
+1. They’re not glamorous. They just have a ton of headspace and work.
So you have to flip the keg over to switch out the bottom, open it up to air and the flip it back over? Sounds like the kind of oxidation most of us would rather avoid.
+1 Kinda negates a key benefit of fermenting in corny.