Reddit reviews Home Brew Ohio One gallon Wide Mouth Jar with Drilled Lid & Twin Bubble Airlock-Set of 2

For the bigger ferments: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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For smaller ones I just use a mason jar.

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Here is a rough outline of my process..

I use an oolong tea.

I boil 4 cups of water in a pot to make a concentrated tea solution with 3 tbsp of raw tea and a steep time of 6 minutes.

I pour about a cup of regular sugar into the tea into the pot.

I had moved this mixture into a jar cleaned with a mild soap and boiling water.

The mixture is then diluted with 8 cups of tap water to cool to a temp under 80.

With this batch I used 2cups of a starter liquid from a previous batch which looked healthy and acidic enough to stop any growth. I did keep that batch covered and used it for the others but there is a possible contamination risk at this point for sure.

After the scoby was poured in I immediately covered it with a cotton dish towel from the last batch with the same side down and rubber banded the sides. I imagine there is a chance for something to be transferred at this point as well.

Then I let this one sit for 4 weeks.

This creates nearly a gallon in a 1 gallon glass jar as shown. The type of jar I use is a Home Brew Ohio One Gallon Brew Jar.

Hope this helps.

The lids came with the gallon jars: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I got a 2-pack off amazon. I think these were the ones.

They’ve been working great! I just need to stop over-filling them.

of course

I started my batch of ghost / golden cayenne fermentation hot sauce last night. I have a gallon fermentation jug and cut open 8 cups of ghost peppers and 8 cups of golden cayenne's. I minced 12 garlic gloves, and diced a whole white onion. I added 12 TBS of salt and 6 TBS of brown sugar. I also threw in about 10 pepper corns. Soaking in 2 quarts of water. I am going to leave it for 2 months before staining and blending.

I kinda used a hybrid of this and this for my recipe.

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I did a pretty basic ferment, and my first one. I took a gallon jar, put in two whole garlic cloves, filled it with halved Roma tomatoes from my garden, then topped off with a 2% salt water brine (spring water and pickling salt. No chlorine or iodine), put a glass pickling weight on top to hold everything under the brine, screwed on the airlock lid from Amazon, and let them sit for about 10 days.


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I've been out of the game for a bit, brewed quite a lot with my brother but the last few years he's not lived close and I haven't kept up.

I'm looking to get back into it. But living in an apartment I'll probably start with 1 gallon batches.

I've got a brew pot that will definitely be big enough so I'm set there. I also have some one gallon jugs that I could probably just add an airlock to but I'm thinking of getting some wide mouth ones just to make cleaning easier (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1).

What other gear should I pick up as a necessity or as something that would simply be nice to have?

I like using these to ferment:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7

I got these 1 gallons from amazon and use them for fermenting peppers: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7/

I brought this a while ago for same reason. It worked pretty well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07115V3F7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Home-Brew-Ohio-Drilled-Airlock-Set/dp/B07115V3F7/

I have these ones, they're glass and the lids fit well.

I use something just like this for starters and experimental batches. morebeer has 1 gallon fermonsters in plastic.

I bought this set of 2 1-gallon jars w/airlock on amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Home-Brew-Ohio-Drilled-Airlock-Set/dp/B07115V3F7/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1549129969&sr=8-3&keywords=1+gallon+fermenter

I have 4 of these, great cost, easy to clean

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If you have time, I got a couple of these precisely so that I could do small batches with whole fruit additions without worrying about neck size. Just got them but they seem OK so far (have a gallon with peaches and another with apples in secondary right now).

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Looks very similar to the ones I buy above. Haven't had any issues with them.