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SocalHomeBrew Plastic 3 Piece Airlock (Pack of 3)

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  • Made of Durable Plastic
  • Used to Maintain Sanitary Conditions for Fermentations
  • Easy to Use
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Product Dimensions 1.5 x 1.5 x 4.6 inches
Item Weight 3.2 ounces
Shipping Weight 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Manufacturer Home Brew Ohio
ASIN B000E60G2W
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Origin USA
Item model number 04-5HPX-0N3I
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4.6 out of 5 stars 392 customer reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank #1,372 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)
#2 in Kitchen & Dining > Home Brewing & Wine Making > Fermentation & More > Airlocks
Date first available at Amazon.com January 10, 2006

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat for making fermented foods: salsa, kraut, etc.
By Jules on November 18, 2012
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Some guy on the internet gave details of how he used this airlock with a certain grommet and a plastic canning jar lid to make the perfect, inexpensive gas-releasing lid for making fermented foods. I ordered the proper-sized rubber grommets on Amazon (made by Western Rubber, part number MR-200-0459). Using a 1/2" drill bit, I drilled a hole in the middle of a plastic canning jar lid, then inserted the grommet. The airlock is filled with water to the fill line, then inserted into the grommet. Put your ferments into the canning jar, seal with this lid and set them somewhere for the required period. Voila! No "burping" needed. The gasses escape gradually and it works perfectly. You can make one of these for under $2.00. I'm making several jars of salsa right now...yum!
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5.0 out of 5 starsmust have for home wine or beer making!
By Charlotte on December 18, 2009
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These are simple (and very affordable!), effective, and amazingly convenient for making your own wine at home. Note that you MUST also purchase stoppers with holes if you don't already have them. (They really ought to be sold together to save on shipping!)

I was having trouble making cherry and blackberry wines because of the fruit being pushed by the bubbles up into the balloons, causing them to tip over and spill syrup all over the place. A few days into fermenting, I switched my balloons out for these along with "Drilled Rubber Stopper (Carboy Bung Sets of 3)", and have been incredibly happy! No more spills, just little bubbles and clean airlocks & bungs!

If you're using a plastic milk-gallon jug, you probably should fill the airlock with vodka instead of water, since when you pick up and set down (or even push in on the sides)the milk jug, water can get sucked through the airlock down into the fermenter. Now, I have done many gallons with just water and had it suck back in, yet NEVER a spoiled batch. To be on the safe side, you can fill your airlock with vodka instead. Note that with glass jugs (empty applejuice jugs!), this is NOT a risk.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBetter than 'S' airlocks
By S. Tessler on June 7, 2014
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I use these for brine fermentation of veggies. I got the popular single lid pickler 'kit' and was pleased to learn how this all works, except the S-shaped airlock is very very hard to clean. These airlocks are easy to clean and work just as well. Inexpensive, too. Instead of seeing bubbles coming up through the S type, the inner lid in these tips when gases are escaping and bubbles escape from under it. You will see bubbles in your ferment anyway, so the extra drama of the S type is not worth the difficulty of cleaning them. Cheap food-grade 1/2" grommets are also available here, along with plastic lids, and silicone inserts (makes lids airtight) to make your own kits.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMy favorite style of airlock
By David Huber on January 8, 2011
I have found this to be the best style of airlock to use. It is cheap, simple in concept, and very easy to clean. A couple of useful comments and tips:

There are different ways to use this. If you are fermenting in a jug or carboy, you use it with a drilled stopper; the stopper size depends upon the diameter of the opening of your jug. You can also use this for fermenting in a food-grade plastic bucket. In this case you insert this through a grommet that is in the bucket lid. The reason they don't give you a stopper or grommet is because there is no way of knowing whether you're using a pail lid, or what size jug you have.

It is best to fill this not with water, but with some kind of food-safe sanitized liquid (i.e., not bleach water). As with any airlock, there are situations where some of the airlock liquid can be sucked back into what you're fermenting. If you are using plain water, it can pick up microbes and bacteria which can contaminate your liquid. Risk of contamination from this isn't a major concern, but an easy way to not worry about it is to fill it with something like cheap vodka. If any of that gets sucked back in, it won't affect the taste of what you're making.

If you are using this for long-term bulk aging of a wine or beer, make sure to check on the liquid level every few weeks to a month to make sure it doesn't evaporate away. These have a liquid fill line to let you know the proper amount of liquid you need.

If you're expecting a very vigorous fermentation, this can easily be converted into a blowoff tube. You can trim off the very bottom of the plastic to completely open up the hole. Then by not using the lid or the floating piece, you can attach a 3/16" tube directly to the top of the tube.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSimple, cheap, and works well!
By Scott Pointon VINE VOICE on November 24, 2009
This style of airlock is far superior to the "s" shape airlocks for one major reason. It is pretty much impossible for contaminated or "outside" air or fluid to make it past this airlock and into your fermenter. With the older style "s" locks, it was just too easy for the fluid acting as a barrier between the clean fermenter and the "bugs" in the outside air to be sucked backwards into the fermenter, thus exposing your beer to contamination.

Get a few of these and you won't regret it!
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5.0 out of 5 starsDon't Brew Without It!
By Christopher A Walnum on February 2, 2014
Simple to use. Just fill to the fill line with water (I use a StarSan solution) and pop it into your bucket or carboy top. Keeps oxygen and contaminants out while allowing the build up of CO2 to be released.

Though much easier to clean than the S-shaped airlocks, I would not recommend this particular airlock if you intend to have drastic temperature changes (i.e. cold crashing). The quick change in temp can result in "suck back" where your fermenter draws the liquid out of your airlock and into your beer. For these applications, stick with the S... they tend not to suck back.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 starsThe gas released from the fermentation stage is so subtle ...

The gas released from the fermentation stage is so subtle you have a difficult time even detecting the release of gas. As such it is hard to gauge the progress of fermentation. Read more

Published 4 days ago by Eric K. Sherson
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

They work perfectly

Published 5 days ago by Ryan Begley
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Best airlocks avaialble

Published 5 days ago by Rob Duffee
4.0 out of 5 starsSocalHomeBrew Plastic 3 Piece Airlock

Plastic Airlock. Does what it needs to do and works well. as with the plugs... good to have three when making multiple batches or if you lose things.

Published 8 days ago by DCLW
5.0 out of 5 starsPerfect for fermented pickles!!

These work perfectly in my plastic mason jar lids, I use them for making pickles and sauerkraut.

Published 13 days ago by Andrea Malstrom
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

as advertised

Published 15 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsMust have

I had to order this in case if I lost/broke mine and that what happened.

Published 15 days ago by Has
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat

Easy to use, easy to clean. I wish I had ordered the rubber bungs as well, but I've been silicon caulking these into drilled holes and they have performed well.

Published 20 days ago by JOHN H.
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat buy, way cheaper than other "pickling kit" alternatives

Works great. I bought them to use with these http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C3UZZC2?m=A2QVUT62ORT83&ref_=v_sp_widget_detail_page for making sauerkraut in mason jars. Read more

Published 20 days ago by davisaj3
3.0 out of 5 starsGood for a small beaker, not a Brew system

I like the other kind much better.

Published 21 days ago by Brock

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