[
US
/ˈkɑɹˌbɔɪ/
]
NOUN
- a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container
How To Use carboy In A Sentence
- I left the shop with flaked maize, Briess 6-row pale malted barley, Briess flaked rye, Weyermann rye malt, a 3-gallon carboy, three packets of Pasteur Champagne yeast, a hydrometer, and a thermometer. CHASING the WHITE DOG
- We're again buying 25-litre carboys of drinking water.
- Then you transfer the wort to a glass carboy, preferably, although you can use a plastic bucket with a well fitting lid (this is a bad idea but some people do brew this way) and you pitch the yeast.
- It doesn't take long to mix it and put it into the standard 23 litre plastic carboys.
- He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity. The Song of The Dodo
- Now cork the carboys with solid rubber stoppers - no holes or airlocks - or stopper the barrel with a solid silicone bung.
- Presumably, he wished the carboys to float; but he had neglected the extra weight of the stoppers!
- The large show carboys in the window, containing coloured water, became the familiar sign of the chemist and druggist.
- Many wines spend considerably more time in wood than the legal minimum and are sometimes aged in 20-l / 5-gal glass carboys, or garrafoes, before bottling.
- I threw in a package of champagne yeast, air-locked the carboy, and left it. CHASING the WHITE DOG