{"id":742,"date":"2020-11-22T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2022-01-23T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:14:15","slug":"equipment-review-fermzilla-all-rounder-w-pressure-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtybucketbrewing.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"EQUIPMENT REVIEW \u2013 FermZilla All Rounder w\/ pressure kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So as I have been home brewing for a little over a year now, going to be two years this coming March, and I keep getting more and more toys. The thing about brewing is there are a lot of rabbit holes you can go down and for this rabbit hole, I decided to purchase a FermZilla All Rounder. What Rabbit hole is this?, well its pressure fermentation s. I watch a lot of the big brewer You-tuber’s out there and they have been talking about pressure fermentation for awhile now and I have finally decided to try this out. Not only pressure fermentation, I also decided to your a Kveik yeast. That is another rabbit hole that I won’t go down this in this review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FermZilla All Rounder, what is it, well according to MoreBeer.com’s description its the most affordably PET plastic fermentor with the ability to withstand pressure to about 35psi. For a little over a $100 you can have a pressure fermentor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The All Rounder<\/a> $49.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pressure kit<\/a> $21.99 (Plastic) $29.99 (stainless) <– recommend stainless<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spunding Valve<\/a> $29.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really you can do this really cheap with a keg and spunding valve but that is another post down the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first received my all rounder, I filled it up and pressure tested to make sure there is no issues. I have heard horror stories of leaks out of the lids and happy I had no issues. I guess the first few generations the o-ring sat differently in the lid which was causing the leaking issues. Now the o-ring has its own grove it sits in on the side. After pressure testing I adjusted my spunding valve to about 15 PSI, depressurized, added in my sanitizer, drained, and than added in my wort. I added my wort in hot at about 90 degrees which it handled without issue. According the the instructions this is good to about 130 degrees. Pitched yeast and within 4 hours I was sitting at 15 psi and there was activity in the sanitizer bottle along with the yeast flying around. So as you may have seen before I use stainless steel buckets so its kinda nice to see the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well 3 days went by and the beer was done, I think. The downside about pressure fermenting is that your reading are harder to get. I went off the activity in the jar along with what was going on inside the fermentor. I decided it was time to dry hop this beer. This was another thing I watched a lot on as I have seen some dry hops when added cause a funnel of beer as when the hops hit the carbonated beer the CO2 leaves solution really quick which causes the head to rise and shoot out of the fermentor. Basically I released the pressure and waited, continued to do that for about 30 mins and than the pressure was gone and I was able to add in the hops. Below is a video of what happens. Good old Dr Hans, he has a lot of good videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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