I have already purchased the Big Blue HDPE to use as a fermenter and a smaller sibling to collect low wines, but just read that one mustn't store alcohol in plastic.
I'm still very new so forgive my lack of knowledge please.
So is it safe to collect and store low wines in these?
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NormandieStill
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Re: Big Blue HDPE Fermenand Alcohol
Short answer: Nope!
Long answer: Food-safe plastics are tested at around 10% abv (from memory) for a period of about 2 weeks (also from memory... I've talked about this before on the forum, you'll find the details here somewhere). At some point some of the chemicals are going to start leeching into your booze. A normal ferment fits into the tested use cases, but low wines storage definitely doesn't.
Long answer: Food-safe plastics are tested at around 10% abv (from memory) for a period of about 2 weeks (also from memory... I've talked about this before on the forum, you'll find the details here somewhere). At some point some of the chemicals are going to start leeching into your booze. A normal ferment fits into the tested use cases, but low wines storage definitely doesn't.
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Re: Big Blue HDPE Fermenand Alcohol
As I stated in your other thread. No low wines in plastic.
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Re: Big Blue HDPE Fermenand Alcohol
Store your low wines in a keg. I store my lows and my feints in 5 gallon Cornelious kegs, as well as projects that are destined for barrel aging.
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Re: Big Blue HDPE Fermenand Alcohol
Wonderful thanks all, I'm going to miss that plastic in my diet:)
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Re: Big Blue HDPE Fermenand Alcohol
it is debatable whether HDPE is safe for use at all