Better Bottles

[mookie1010]

To address the moving issue, I put them in a milk crate to so I can move them around without sucking anything back.

That's a great idea.

Right now, I have 2 pails, 1 glass carboy and 1 better bottle. I like the better bottle a lot, but cleaning can be a bit of a pain. If it's available, it's my go to fermenter. I love that it's lightweight, sturdy and I won't hurt it (or me) carrying it around.

[huskerbrew]

I use oxyclean free to clean mine. Just fill it full of hot (not too hot) water and add a scoop of oxyclean free, let it soak overnight and its clean the next morning. Love the better bottles!

[hopshead]

another tip - don't rock them on the corners when they are full

Over time, the plastic will get week and they will break

Yeah, mine broke like this and I have not replaced them. Its funny, I moved away from plastic buckets because the BN show on fermenters convinced me plastic would scratch and eventually infect my beer. I moved to glass carboys. My daughter was born and started crawling around, and I heard/saw to many broken carboy stories on the interwebs and moved to better bottles for safety. After cleaning better bottles (pet plastic) with pbw, rinse, and pbw solution with a rag inside for tough stains, I learned plastic can be cleaned without scrubbing. My better bottles broke due to cracking corners and now I am have come full circle back to plastic buckets, cleaning them like I did with better bottles.