Primary fermentor - using for both beer and wine?

[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!!

[Mylo]

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

[andy77]

What mylo said.

[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.

[esobofh]

+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?

[Mylo]

+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