Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:43 am
by esobofh
Folks,
I'm told that I can expect bad beer and worse wine if i use my primary fermentor for both. Is there any truth to this?
I have a newer ~50 liter food grade primary, that I keep religiously clean. Should I expect any issues?
If I have beer and wine fermenting in the same room, will there be yeast cross contamination?
thanks!!
Re: Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:02 am
by Mylo
esobofh wrote:Folks,
I'm told that I can expect bad beer and worse wine if i use my primary fermentor for both. Is there any truth to this?
I have a newer ~50 liter food grade primary, that I keep religiously clean. Should I expect any issues?
If I have beer and wine fermenting in the same room, will there be yeast cross contamination?
thanks!!
If you are fermenting in buckets, then I wouldn't use them for both beer and wine. Plastic is too permeable. That's why you can never seem to wash the hop smell out of them. Glass is fine. No fear of cross contamination of yeast from both co-existing in the same room. They can't jump or fly.
Mylo
Re: Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:12 am
by andy77
What mylo said.
Re: Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:22 am
by Spidey
+1 on what Mylo said. Even if you're using glass, I wouldn't make a funky beer and expect drinkable wine to be made in the same vessel. Brett is a notorious contaminant of wine. Is it POSSIBLE to get the glass clean enough that the Brett won't take hold of a batch of wine? Probably so. Is it PROBABLE that the carboy will be washed completely clean of Brett? Probably not.
Re: Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:37 pm
by esobofh
Spidey wrote:+1 on what Mylo said. Even if you're using glass, I wouldn't make a funky beer and expect drinkable wine to be made in the same vessel. Brett is a notorious contaminant of wine. Is it POSSIBLE to get the glass clean enough that the Brett won't take hold of a batch of wine? Probably so. Is it PROBABLE that the carboy will be washed completely clean of Brett? Probably not.
What is Brett?
Re: Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:32 pm
by Mylo
esobofh wrote:Spidey wrote:+1 on what Mylo said. Even if you're using glass, I wouldn't make a funky beer and expect drinkable wine to be made in the same vessel. Brett is a notorious contaminant of wine. Is it POSSIBLE to get the glass clean enough that the Brett won't take hold of a batch of wine? Probably so. Is it PROBABLE that the carboy will be washed completely clean of Brett? Probably not.
What is Brett?
Short name for Brettanomyces.... the wild yeast strain found in funky Belgians.
Mylo