Fermzilla All Rounder: Tips & Tricks YOU Need To Know + Must Buy Accessories For This AMAZING Unit

hey Brewers it's Paul here and today we're going to take a look at one of my favorite fermenters this is the firmzilla all-rounder 30 liter it's not very expensive about 80 dollars Canadian there's a bunch of cool accessories you can get for it which I'm going to show you and also a couple features that I like about this unit number one is how easy it is to clean it's got a nice large opening here so it's easy to get your hand in there and you know scrub it up make sure it's really clean the size is good 30 liters or just under 8 US gallons you can make you know easily a five six gallon batch in here without needing to worry about headspace or anything like that let's just go over some of the accessories that I use on it all the time the number one thing I I wanted was instead of having an airlock attached you can put on these ball lock connectors they sell them in different colors which is nice because you can know that okay I always put my CO2 onto the orange one and I put my beer line to my kig on the yellow one but what these allow you to do is ferment Under Pressure a lot of people like to use spunding valves nowadays and instead of buying a super expensive stainless steel conical you could do it right in here you can get the keg land spending valve put that on there while it's fermenting while it's creating CO2 you can tell it or rather you can set this bonding valve to let's say 15 psi that's what I do so if it exceeds 15 psi it'll let the CO2 out otherwise it's forcing it back into the beer once you transfer this into your keg it's already going to be like halfway carbonated so that'll save you some time so fermenting Under Pressure allows you to do stuff like make a logger at closer to room temperature you know if you don't have a fermentation chamber you can't ferment really cold like 10 Celsius you can set your sponding valves let's say 15 psi put your lager yeast and ferment it you know closer to 16 to 18 without getting tons of like sulfur notes out of the yeast and then the other accessory that I use all the time is the floating dip tube so basically you attach the tubing to one of your posts here and then on the end you could do one of two things just put a floating like a ball on here so this will just keep it floating at the top and then as you're transferring to your keg it'll go down but this will suck up like any true but it touches or anything like that so a lot of people choose to put on a filter so the filter goes on the tubing and then you'll put the floating stainless steel ball uh on the filter so that way it's floating on the top of your beer this is filtering out you know hop chunks and stuff like that one thing I will mention though the tubing they give you it fits I believe both the 30 liter and the 60 liter all-rounder so it's very long and what I found is As You Are getting your beer out of here and into your keg it's going to start to hit the side and get stuck so I would recommend uh cutting it shorter I don't want to cut too much off start with about that nice and see foreign just a little bit more that should be perfect all right so we got that on there we'll hook up the floating uh ball with the filter and now I'll show you how to Rack it or transfer out of here with CO2 into your keg what's nice is if you're making a really hoppy beer or New England IPA something like that oxygen is your enemy so this allows you to do a closed transfer right out of your fermenter and into your keg so I'll get that set up and we'll be right back all right so to do the pressure transfer obviously you need a keg you're going to want to purge it with CO2 so make sure you release all the pressure you'll need just a piece of tubing with two ball lock liquid disconnects on there we'll get this hooked up right away I'm just going to grab some keg lube and just Lube up our posts this really helps the disconnects come off and on a lot easier it also prolongs the life of your o-ring and it's very cheap so we got all the pressure released we're going to hook this up to the post that has the floating dip tube that went on nice and easy now I'm hooking this up to the liquid outpost on The Keg that way you're filling it from the bottom up so now it's on there nice and tight uh you're going to want to either leave your pressure release valve open or crack the lid on your keg for this or else it's not going to flow it'll build up pressure in here and it'll stop flowing just set your CO2 regulator to like 3 PSI hook it up unfortunately it's just water in here you can't really see but it is flowing out of the fermenter and into our keg so once your beer is transferred into your keg turn off the CO2 disconnect it from your keg close your pressure relief valve take the gas off and then you're ready to clean it one thing I wanted to mention as well all right let's just get the pressure out of here when you're setting your spending valve you can use your CO2 tank to double check that it's set to the correct value because when you put it on there's no pressure so the leader the needle is going to be at zero so I'll set my CO2 regulator to 15 psi remove the flowing dip tube we don't need it for this part all right so grab our sponding valve I'm going to close it about halfway foreign now I have my CO2 regulator set to 15 psi and if you notice that your spending valve needle is not moving you probably have it hooked up the wrong way just like I am so there's an arrow pointing this way that's the flow so we're going to put it on the correct side and try again just adjust the knob until it's not letting CO2 out anymore I don't know if you could hear that but you can hear when the CO2 is escaping so there you go it's dialed in at 10 psi so you can take your CO2 off and then do the pressure release let's drop back down to zero and then that way you can tell when your beer is actually fermenting so just a quick tip on setting that up and then the last thing I will mention is the carrying strap that they have for this unit I believe it's around like 15 or so all it does is the base is separate from the fermenter so when this is full of work you probably want to be holding it with two hands it's heavy you don't want to drop it so usually you'd have to ask somebody to carry the base for you while this keeps it all together nice and tight the other thing is without it probably not going to happen but if someone were to bump it in it's kind of top heavy so it might fall off or you know that sort of thing so having this on there just keeps it you know all together so there you have it that's the firmzilla all-rounder 30 liter and some of my favorite accessories for it I think bang for your buck it's one of the best fermenters on the market but what do you think have you do you have one have you tried it do you have any questions please let us know in the comments down below and don't forget to like And subscribe to see more content like this cheers

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 14 2022