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imnormal

Vessel for force carbonating 1 gallon that isn't plastic?

For what it's worth, this isn't for beer, but some other beverage experiments I have going on. Right now I use PET bottles with a stainless steel carbonator cap that I hook up to my co2 tank. I would like a non- plastic solution though because I try to avoid plastics in general and it's annoying buying drinks just for the plastic bottle. I've read (and intuitively it seems quite so) that it is dangerous to use carbonator caps with glass bottles so I guess I'm looking at an expensive stainless steel solution. Any ideas? Thanks folks.

Posted Apr 7, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

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jtonzi•

Would something like this work? https://www.williamsbrewing.com/COMPLETE-ULTIMATE-GROWLER-P4040.aspx

You'd probably have to carb it at a relatively low pressure.

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imnormalOP•

Thanks, those are quite nice! I'd spend the money if I had to, but think I'm going to steer clear from the full vacuum insulation. Also would prefer to carbonate from a full co2 tank with regulator as supposed to a built in system that I need to get small co2 refills for.

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chino_brews•

Well, expensive is relative, but I will note that MoreBeer has their Torpedo keg product and I think it is $75 for the 1.5 gallon version. You can also carbonate a gallon in 5-gallon corny keg as long as you are OK using more CO2 than you would with smaller vessels.

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imnormalOP•

Cheers. These are just about what I was looking for...Most of the stuff I was finding were closer to growlers (like what u/jtonzi posted) and were vacuum insulated so a bit more than what I was looking for.

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