I think I've mentioned before that, if there's a soda bottling plant nearby (such as Coke or Pepsi) you can frequently get used 55 gallon food grade barrels from them. Another thing I discovered is that honey producers use 55 gallon food grade barrels as well. There is a honey producer in my area that sells 55 gallon steel drums for $10 each. I can think of worse things than my storage water tasting like honey. In fact, I've experienced worse. My current water barrel is a milspec rubber drum, so the water I tried from it tasted like rubber after a while.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Yep - a quick google search and I got 6 55-gal plastic drums for cheap. They'd been used for syrup once. It took several hours to wash them out, but we had fun doing it, what with the filling them halfway with water and soap, then rolling them down a hill.
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