Quote Originally Posted by AKScott View Post
I would caution against a glass carboy Cowher. One, they don't stop UV, so you will ahve to put a tshirt or something over it to keep the sunlight from skunking your beer.
But if you are brewing during the warmer months, it's a good idea to keep a wet towel over your carboy anyway so it keeps the temperature about 5* under ambient. I used to keep towels wrapped around my carboys with a fan pointed at them to keep fermentation around 68*.


two they don't have handles and are heavy, an especially bad combination when they are wet. And if you drop one, you got broken glass everywhere.
That's why God invented grocery store milk crates - they fit a carboy just fine, have handles, and as a side-note, are great for increasing the base footprint of your carboy so it doesn't tip...