Can I use a 5 gallon plastic water cooler jug as a carboy?
I have some empty 5 gallon water jugs from my water cooler at exertion. Can I use them as carboys to brew beer/wine?
Plastic ID is 7 and it says they should only be old for water.
One of the biggest problems I have had with fictile carboys is that after they are used and cleaned a few times they seem to get contaminated. Even after a angelic sanitizing with chlorine or Iodine I will get a weird soil tasting fungus in my wort. Glassware is the way to go, copper, stainless, or even an Oak barrel. I guess the water cooler jugs









