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Your cart is empty.The Brew Hauler is constructed of sturdy polypropylene webbing that creates handles for carboys, making them easy to carry. The Brew Hauler can be easily moved from one carboy to another. It fits on all carboys, but will not fit our glass demijohn.
Eric A. Bearce
2025-08-22 17:56:56
Bought this Brew Hauler a little while back to aid in moving my heavy, full of beer, glass carboys. I have to say that it works awesome! I usually brew with a friend and it makes transporting the beer from one area to another smooth. We are each able to grab a handle and move the carboy around with ease! Please do yourself a favor on brew day and purchase this, I would be lost without mine :)UPDATE: I was carrying my beer to the basement with my hauler and I thought that I heard something ripping so I set my carboy down. Thank Goodness I did, because one of the handles stitching ripped out and I almost dropped 5 gallons of Hefeweizen all over my deck! Please take the time and inspect yours as well. I decided to sew the handle back on being that I have a sewing machine, and I discovered that all stitching was starting to fail. I restitched everything, and hopefully I will never have a problem with it again. Hopefully the company will notice this fault, and pay closer attention to this.SECOND UPDATE: I contacted the company and was glad to hear that these were manufactured in the gold ol' USA! I told them the story of how my strap tore, I repaired it, and they sent me some seriously AWESOME swag for my time! You cannot go wrong with this company or their product as they will 100% stand behind what they sell!
cp
2025-08-18 17:48:49
This piece of junk cost me a 5 gal carboy, $200 in spilled wine, and 10 hours of cleanup as the wine seeped under the PVC flooring in our garage. Thought the idea was to protect one's back, not hurt it by heavy labor. I was very lucky I escaped without any major cuts by the glass shrapnels flying everywhere.In my case the handles held up but the issue was with the vertical straps. They move around freely along the horizontal straps. I guess the idea is to accommodate carboys of different sizes but it makes for a flimsy product. The end result for me was that the space between two straps became too large and the carboy slipped through. Obviously, the danger of this happening increases for full carboys.I've been making wine for twenty years now. In that time I broke only one carboy and that was when using this hauler. Needless to say, I'm not happy. Good tools are great but badly designed tools are a waste of time and money.
Christopher M. Moriarty
2025-07-10 17:11:36
I've got a BigMouth 6.5 gal carboy and this thing does the trick for moving it about a bit more easily. The first one I got was defective. The clasp wouldn't stay closed. It was quickly replaced without difficulty.The replacement now works fine but you should spend a little time getting to know it with an empty carboy first. The most important part is to be certain the buckle is installed correctly. If it's upside down, then it will pull free very easily and smack goes your fermenter. When it's installed correctly it holds well but isn't a lot of extra strap when working with a 6.5 gallon carboy.Like any these harnesses, you want to give it a check before you move the carboy to make sure it's still safe and secure. I haven't done it yet but if you're only using it on one vessel and don't ever need to adjust the size, it's probably worth doing a heavy duty sewing of the strap just for a little extra safety and peace of mind.The reason this review is 4 stars instead of 5 is that it's a good item but it's not like when I put it on I'm like "Wow, that thing is really in there, it's not going anywhere." I'm sure after more successful uses I'll feel more comfortable with it but it isn't of a quality that inspires confidence from the get go; it is what it needs to be to get the job done, but it isn't trying to do anything beyond that.
Matthew F.
2025-03-25 17:55:00
Just what the Doctor ordered. Allows you to move your carboy safely. I didn't like the looks of the handles that attach at the lip of the bottle. They look like they could slip and that would not be a good situation with $50 dollars worth of glass and $40-50 dollars worth of precious nectar at stake. The straps cradle the carboy and are inherently safer than the handles that grip the top of the bottle. The Brew Hauler arrived ahead of schedule and was easy to figure out and install. Now I have raised my in progress brew to 12 gallons and I am about to increase by half again. Soon I will be going "off the grid" and be done with the bilge water that passes for beer at the store. Love my new hobby but it has turned me into a bit of a beer snob. Never knew what I was missing until I started making my own.
Kevin Darm
2025-01-24 10:56:03
If you use a glass carboy, you NEED to get this. Please.Do a quick search on Google Images for Glass Carboy Injury or Glass Carboy Breaking, then prepare to be nauseated. Think about it - you fill these things up with a bunch of warm liquid and then waddle around to put them away, or maybe you use the neck handle that's only designed for when they're empty. Put it down on a pebble, or too hard, or it slips from your hands a little, or maybe it just decides that the wort you put in was a bit too warm and now it wants to stress crack - either way you have to contend with a LOT of very sharp broken glass going all over the place, right next to you and in your arms.Get the carrier strap and you can pick up the carboy MUCH more easily, support it from the bottom and the sides, and keep it away from you in the event it does decide to break. Picking up a full carboy with these straps is a simple task compared to some of the other methods, and is far safer than the neck handle or the barrel-hug approach.For the low cost, save yourself some headache, some backache, and a possible trip to the hospital.
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