New BetterBottle Secondary

Today I bought a new secondary for the brewery; I purchased a BetterBottle.  It’s a plastic fermentation vessel (carboy).  The bottle is not just a normal, plastic bottle.  It’s strong, scuff resistant, easy to handle, and essentially unbreakable.  Also, the plastic is a special PET, so it is non-absorbing, non-porous, and it will not carry over flavors from one batch of beer to the next.

This new 5 gallon carboy is about half the weight of my glass carboy.  I filled it tonight when I racked my Black Stone Stout into it.  I didn’t have to worry about breaking it and giving myself any glasserations when I sanitized the carboy.  So far, so good.  We’ll see how it holds up in the long run…