How many carboys do you own?

General Homebrew Discussion
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I have four 5 gallon, one 6 gallon, a couple buckets, and five one gallon jugs (ciders/meads/cyser/starters/etc).

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I have a 6 gallon and two 5 gallon better bottles ( which I rarely use anymore ).  I also still have my very first 7.5 gallon bucket for sentimental ( or just plain mental ) reasons.

I will probably pick up a couple more 6 gallon BB.  Glass just scares the heck out of me ( not Gary Glass…although :slight_smile: )

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I have 2 6.5 Gallon, 1 six gallon, and 1 five gallon carboy.  I also have 2 fermentation buckets that get used on occasion.

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I have a five gallon glass, 6 gallon BB and a three gallon BB.  I use them rarely, the 6 gallon for fermenting lagers mostly.

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IIRC:

6 - 5 gallon
3 - 6 gallon
2 - 3 gallon

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3 - 6 gallon buckets
3 - 5 gallon kegs
1 - 3 gallon keg

I sold all of my glass about a year ago and will never go back.

I had a dream that I was given a Blichmann conical a few days ago. :slight_smile:
I live in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, so this will never become a reality as long as I live here. :frowning:

Just out of curiosity, do all of you guys with larger conicals keep them in standup freezers?  Do they not make some sort of glycol-jacketed sleeve that you could put on the conical and connect to a freezer?

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Four 6.5 Gallon Carboys.

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I have 2-5 gallon, 4-6.5 gallon, 6-6 gallon, and a bunch of 1 gallon and growlers. I use the carboys for wines and cysers. For beer I use buckets, sometimes with a big beer I will use a carboy for bulk aging.

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Two 6 gallon carboys 
Two 5 gallon carboys
Two 6.5 gallon buckets
6 cornys

If I had to do it all over again I’d have zero carboys, a bunch of buckets, and tons of cornys.  Carboys take up too much of my limited space when they’re not in use.

OR

I’d have a dedicated brew house with unlimited space. :stuck_out_tongue:

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6-six gallon, 6-five gallon, 1-six and a half, 2 buckets.

Some times it’s too many, some times it’s not enough.

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I own two 6.5 gallon carboys and five five gallon.  I was planning on reducing the five gallons because I was not using them.  I then increased my brewing capacity to eight gallons and now use two five gallons to primary.  Works great.  :slight_smile:

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+1

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(1) 6…5 gal. glass
(2) 5 gal. glass
(1) 5 gal. better bottle
(2) 6 gal. better bottle

will be buying more 6 gallon better bottles.

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5 - 5 gallon
3 - 6 gallon
2 - 3 gallon better bottles

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I have (4) Mexi 6 Gallons.  I also have 2 buckets.  I like glass-maybe the misconception that it is easier to clean?

'Cause it is NOT.  I spent a long time getting dried krausen off the dome from a wild ferment.

I am not going to buy anymore for now as I would rather get 6-8 cornies and free myself from bottling and carbination headaches.

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I just started brewing about a year ago so I only have a bucket.

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5

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Right now I have 5 six galloncarboys (had six, broke one last new years eve due to an alcohol induced carboy moving accident - no one was hurt but some tears were shed), 2 five gallon carboys and 2 working buckets. Lots of junk buckets. And, yes, there are times when every one of them is full.  :)

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That is the key, how many are actually in use at any given time?  Well, I am filling a couple today… :slight_smile:

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2 - 6.5 gallon glass
2 - 5.5 gallon glass
3 - 5 gallon glass
4  -6 gallon Better bottle
15 Cornys
4 specially designed rigs to ferment in the keg - 2 spunding valve assy’s and 2 blow off hose rigs