Polypropylene fermenters

[PAFruitWines]

Hi. Haven’t been making wine for a while and I’m ready to get back into it. I’m seeing some very inexpensive polypropylene fermenters and I’m not sure about them. A forum search didn’t round up much. Anyone using poly? Any reason not to?

Thanks!

 

[Rice_Guy]

You are looking at fermenters so you can assume they were manufactured with food grade materials.
Industry uses a lot of polypropylene and HDPE pallet sized equipment. cost effective, easy to clean, fair with strong flavors as garlic, fairly thick wall so vapor penetration is acceptable, chemical resistant

 

[garymc]

If you use a vacuum pump to transfer or bottle, you might want to make sure they can take the vacuum without collapse.

 

[PAFruitWines]

Thanks for the replies. It’s been a while since I bought any equipment. PET was becoming popular and creating a lot of debate. I do fruit wines and DB. I want to use a bucket with a spigot to ferment, then rack to a smaller one to clear, then rack to a carboy to age. Trying to make a simple process and these buckets will help and are reasonably priced.