Rumor has it that one of the two makers of 6.5 gallon glass carboys has switched its production to Corona bottles. The two producers, one from Italy and one from Mexico apparently provide the lions share of carboys to the world.

Of course there is more to the glassware than just home brewers, but if Corona is going to pay better than the production of 6.5 gallon carboys, why not switch? If I had a crystal ball to look into, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the price of all carboys going up in response to this. If you have a LHBS that still sells the 6.5 around $20-25, grab one now.

I do have a 6.5, and it is very handy for big beer primaries that I want to leave for more than a week or so, it also works well for 6 gallon wine secondaries. I have left wine in there for a month or so before racking over to a 5 gallon and filling it to the top. What happens with the rest? Well, its already fairly clear by then, you see, and we couldn’t have it go to waste, now could we?

I’ll try and do some substantive research on this and get back with citable info.

Cheers!
Tony