FastTrack Fermentation Bucket with Spigot | Home Brewing Wine Fermenter with Spigot | 100% Food Grade-BPA Free Fermenting Bucket for your Beer, Wine, Mead, Cider, or any other Fermented Beverage

I bought this bucket because a "friend" ran off with my last primary and I needed to make a batch of plum wine. I am definitely please with this purchase.The included spigot is pretty nice, and I like that it can be rotated to point up or down, so that I can leave it up while I ferment and down when I use the bucket for bottling. I also like that it's a twist on/off instead of the "accidentally lift up the lever and spill wine everywhere" style lever.This will replace my current bottling/degassing bucket, which is too big, as well as being my primary fermenter, so it's a space saver as well. The hole for the airlock is a tight fit, but I like it better than my old one which required a rubber bung to hold the airlock.The measurement lines on it are great, and seem to be accurate, and as a bonus it has some other useful information (an ABV chart and some other charts that I forget right now) printed on the sides.It's a thermoplastic, so I wouldn't want to put boiling water in it, but I did add a freshly boiled honey/water solution to my plums, which brought the temperature to 130 or so, and the bucket didn't deform. It seems very sturdy, and is made by Ropak, who seemingly make just about every bucket or similar container in the US.Stop thinking, and buy it already!

Somewhat different from the picture currently associated with it, the bucket has "True Brew" embossed on the front and a blue lid. The lid snaps on extremely tight. While the manufacturers present this as a "bottling bucket" I have found that the 6.5 gallon size and the location of the spigot (1 inch above the bottom of the bucket) makes this an excellent vessel for fermentation. The trub (sediment from fermentation) of a 5-gallon batch does not rise above the bottom of the spigot; I'm able to use the spigot, rather than a siphon, to bottle. The spigot lever has "On" and "Off" in raised plastic - white on white. I used colored Sharpies to highlight "Off" in red and "On" in green. Make certain the spigot is closed before filling! There is a slight tendency for the spigot to leak when one is opening it, but it's just a couple of ml. The bucket has a sturdy wire handle with a rotating plastic grip in the center.

Bought as a gift to my husband. The lid is difficult to put on for me, but my husband doesn't have any issues. Spigot works great and is suprisingly easy to clean. Wish the spicket had a cap of some sort to put on it because my dog keeps trying to lick it. The spigot hangs low, so we have to keep the bucket on the edge of the counter, which is an inconvenience, but it never leaked and makes bottling a breeze. We have done three brews in here, each a couple months long before reracking them onto one gallon carboys (with different adding to give variety of flavor). This has really increased our output. The bucket lid has started to bow a little from wear, but that's common with plastic items. Overall we are very satisfied and it was well worth the money. Would buy again if I had more 1 gallon carboys. Holds 5 gallons of liquid with plenty of head room for our brews.

This is a good fermenter for being able to re-rack into another bucket after primary fermentation occurs OR to be racked into for either secondary fermentation or bottling. This allows for the dead yeast, hops, and grain dust that has settled during fermentation to remain on the bottom of the bucket. It maintains a slight space in between the settlement and what comes out the spigot. The bucket came complete with lid pre-drilled with a rubber grommet that fits an airlock bubbler, and pre-drilled with the hole, spigot, the backer nut, and two rubber washers.The downside of this fermenter is that the lid, when secured, allowed CO2 to escape not through the airlock, but through the seal of the lid, which at first glance, made me believe that my yeast was bad, and the fermentation wasn't taking place. After figuring out what happened, and almost throwing out 5 gallons of Oktoberfest, I sealed up the seam where the lid locks onto the bucket with some gorilla tape, and it sealed the leak up and forced the out-gassing CO2 through the airlock now, and prevented any external factors for spoilage. That's the reason for the 4 stars and not 5.

Perfect for bottling. After initial setup it leaked so i was a little disappointed, but upon further inspection i realized that there were two gaskets for the spigot and i had both of them on the outside. After changing it to have one gasket on the inside and one on the outside, the leak problem was fixed and haven't had a leak since. There aren't any directions hinting at this but hope this helps anyone who seems to have a leak problem. (BTW I only hand tightened it)

Decent enough bucket, but like others said the hole was way too small for the spigot

Not sure how they managed to design a bucket wrong but they did. When your order these the spigot isn't attached so you have to thread it through the hole they pre-drill in the bucket and tighten it with the parts they provide, not a big deal.Problem is that 50% of the time the for me o-ring they give you doesn't seal properly causing it to leak making it almost useless (other than a sanitizing bucket). To make matters worse, the spigot is too long so after installing it the bucket won't sit flat, it rests on the tip of the spigot (you have to cut it to make it sit flat).If that wasn't enough I ordered the exact same buckets 2 times and got completely different buckets and tops than I did the first time.Needless to say I won't be ordering again and neither should you. Just go pick one up at your local hardware store.

This bucket works really well. Much better than the glass carboy I previously used. It keeps a good seal during the fermentation process. My only complaint is that you really have to put some muscle into opening the lid. But I guess that's a fair trade for keeping the air out so your beer doesn't become infected. But still, a great piece of equipment!

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Perfect primary fermentation bucket for my wine making requirements! Plenty of room for headspace when making a full 5 gallons. I replaced the airlock grommet with a silicon sealing grommet because I never seal the lid down tight anyway. I just threw a towel over the entire bucket, with the lid on first. Nothing gets in either way. Towel or just the lid. I've been doing it this way for 30+ years with zero issues. The spigot is good enough to lighten the weight so that you can drain the bottom into a gallon vessel so that it doesn't cloud up your secondary fermentation vessel. There is no wrong way, this is just my way.

I like to cleanliness and ease of use and visual appeal of the product. I use it to make cider and beer.

Compré el producto porque necesitaba una cubeta con tapa y espita para otros propósitos y esta fue la mejor opción. La tapa sella bien (de hecho fue complicado separarla de la cubeta cuando recién recibí el producto) y la válvula funciona a la perfección, sin goteos. Si en algún momento decido iniciarme en la fabricación de cerveza recurriré a este producto.

el producto es bueno solo que una vez que se destapa es muy complicado volverlo a tapar y con el uso es probable que se rompa la tapa si se sigue tapando y destapando con frecuencia ( que es para lo que la mayoría lo compramos )