Nicely done Bradley. A 4.5% ABV Oktoberfest beer will for sure help fight against the Sunday morning hangover! I take it that you adjusted the hops to keep the intended bitterness?
It definitely will do that. Once I had the modified recipe in brewfather I decided that the hopping was fine for my taste. After the beer was finished I further verified it works for me 🍻 One emission in the video I did a pretty elaborate mesh schedule, at least for myself. In an attempt to achieve a fuller body it actually worked a little better than I had thought it would.
Have you ever tried the 5.2 pH stabilizer. I use more beer kits and add this to my filtered water. Seems to work well My Brewzilla 4 sowed up last week, can’t wait to try it.
Love the brewdays. G2G's are my favs. Especially with Gen4's... I have the bluetooth and pill as well. that fermentation chamber looks nice. I want to hear about the pro lid so I'm waiting on the review. I have my eye on that one.
Hi, I have the same BrewZilla and I purchase the malt already grinded here in the local shop. But I never had so high flow during recirculation, usually I need to close a lot to not "get flooded" with the worth. You never had this issue? I already did 15 batches like this, always with the same behavior. Thank you!
Portly, great review/ idea! As it looks like you are using the PID, curious what Gen 4 PID setting and mash power level has worked for you. And, has the diffuser plate lowered your efficiency? Thank you!
I like the idea of stretching the legs on a beer to get a lower ABV. It reminds me of a buddy of mine who says the pot of today is too strong, he wants to got back to the simple pot of the 70's and 80's. I think if my beer moves around between 4% and 5% I am perfectly happy. As long as beer has been around there is no way I am going to reinvent it. Great Video. Thanks for doing it. Cheers.
I just busted out my own Marzen recently. It was may 1st lager and I did it right. I brewed it in March and lagered it this whole time. It's a pretty beer. I have really wanted to try the recipe I used with Lutra to compare. I just might do it soon.
Love the brew day videos! I’m in the market for a brewzilla gen 4 so can’t wait to see your review and what you think! A video on your brewery would be cool too! Thanks 🍻
Not necessarily know, but if you want to know what the temperature of the mash and the malt pipe actually is and control the heating elements accordingly, it's the only way. I will definitely cover this thoroughly in the review 🍻
Great video! Where did you get your fermentation chamber? It looks awesome and I would like to get better at controlled temp fermentation for my homebrews.
It's produced by kegeland distributed by morebeer in the United States. There's a link in the description. As well as a complete review video on my channel. 🍻🍻
Cool vid. Glad your back at it! I’d love to get your perspective, I’m using a brewtools b40 now and am actually considering switching to a brewzilla 65 as I want to have a bigger volume and switch to 240, hard to argue with how affordable the brewzilla is and really I just want a simpler, faster, no fuss brewday and easier clean and immersion chilling. so I’d love to hear your perspective, could I still love it coming from a more premium system?
That's a tricky one to answer. It depends on what exactly you like most about Brewtools. If it's the quality and extreme attention to detail. Don't get me wrong the BrewZilla is extremely good It's just not on the same level. You could easily switch your B40 to 240 volt as well as add an immersion chiller. The volume I suspect would be your limiting factor. It is quite possible to make a very simple BT set up. Having said that today the BrewZilla is the only other all in 1 brewing system I would consider.
The whirlpool arm works great. How much water do you use with the steam condenser? I have been brewing outside for the last three years after I moved to five gallon and ten gallon all grain batches. Being able to brew in the garage would be awesome, especially during the pits of summer and the coldest parts of winter. I am looking forward to the mini tap review. Might just be the prefect solution for me.
That's good to know. I definitely want to try one out. I exclusively use the condenser. I don't have ventilation in the new brewery. Largely because I realize after I got my first condenser ventilation wasn't really needed anymore. I personally think it's the only way to go.. If you're making RU-vid videos it can make it a little less exciting, but well worth it.
