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

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.

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.

Easy to use And clean. Spigot is really nice to have for beer transferring. Works well and doesn't leak. Good value

Lid doesnt seal properly before putting the lid on cover the brew with plastic wrap and poke holes in it to allow it to get to the airlock. Then make sure your airlock opening is water proof. Use hot glue if its not. Then put the lid on to create the seal between the bucket and lid thanks to the plastic. and th Fair warning the spigot doesnt sit flush with the bottom so setting it on a flat surface wont work. Fortunately you can turn the spigot to keep it out of the way. However make sure to REALLY tighten it with rubber gaskets on inside and outside that come with it. I thought i had it tight but it started to leak and im not weak my any means. Test the seal before filling with your brew

Good buy

Dreadful product. The lid, once placed on the bucket, will not, under any circumstances, come off. Nowhere in the product description does it say any specific / special tools are needed to remove the lid. I have numerous fermenters and this product is, by comparison, absolutely useless. Also, the spigot hole in the bin is much too small for the spigot thread. 30 minutes of hard work to make it fit. Serious product design issues. I will not do business with this supplier again.

I ordered two of these on two separate occasions. The first one was shipped from Home Brew Ohio and reflects the pictured bucket well (It says Home Brew Ohio on the front). It came with the Red Italian bottling spigot and a light, easy open lid as pictured. It arrived promptly and the spigot turns upside down so it is not touching the floor when fermenting or rocking the bucket to aerate the wort. As other reviewers commented, this setup works well for fermenting and bottling in one bucket and skipping the racking to a a separate bottling bucket. Most of the trub stays behind because the spigot is high enough. I'd give the first bucket five stars. The second one was shipped from HomeBrewStuff, which also arrived promptly. But, they instead me a bucket with a cheaper, non-rotating spigot (similar to this one http://www.amazon.com/Brewcraft-Bottling-Spigot-Bucket-Homebrew/dp/B009CTQGE4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1398883197&sr=8-2&keywords=bottling+spigot). The spigot snapped off after a few hits against the floor while rocking the bucket back and forth to aerate the wort. Also, the lid was a heavy duty snap-on lid similar to paint buckets. It is a bear to get on and off, you need a screwdriver to pry it off and bang it with a hammer and literally jump on it with your full body weight to get it to snap tight. Furthermore, the rubber grommet was not properly installed on the lid (the hole was drilled too big) so the grommet was in the lid too loosely and fell in the wort when I put in the airlock. I improvised with Saran Wrap, and I asked for a new lid given the problems with this one, and they sent me a replacement lid, but the same awful paint bucket lid that requires tools to pry off and a hammer to snap on tight. I am considering buying the separate light weight cover. Zero stars for this one as it does not represent the picture. The two most important parts (spigot and lid) were wrongly represented. So: Watch who the seller is.

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!

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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 )