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Works great! The weather typically doesn't get much below freezing where I am, but the side of the garage where the fermentation chamber is located is insulated but not heated and that thing has no trouble keeping the temp up. Last year we had some sub-freezing days and it kept up fine. I looked into other solutions like a space heater or heat lamp but this seemed easier and safer. Figured I'd start with this and change to something else if it couldn't do the job, but thankfully it's working great for my situation.

I mean St. Patrick's Day is only 2 months away ... ;)

@@irondalebrewing You're right! I better get planning lol.

@@wade3166 Nice! It'll be great to share notes. Thanks for watching!

I love it! I ferment in an upright freezer in the other half of my garage so the signal has to go through the freezer and another door, and it's not particularly close to a WiFi node, but there's absolutely no signal issues. For my next batch (which I'm probably brewing tomorrow) I'm going to switch from my Inkbird temperature controller to the Rapt temperature controller and change the Pill over to use Bluetooth Low Energy, and when you pair the Pill to the temperature controller the Pill then controls the temp which will be awesome. KegLand also just announced that with the Pill and the Rapt temperature controller you can leverage gravity velocity to automate things like ramping the temperature up or down as you hit certain gravities during fermentation (more info: th-cam.com/video/oVNjjFeZWxk/w-d-xo.html). I also just upgraded both my Pills to use wireless charging which is very slick. I'm planning on doing videos on all this stuff soon. In short, I love the Pill!

@@irondalebrewing that sounds good l have the pill but have a lot of problems with it

@@daz9062 that's a bummer, what problems are you having with it?

it's not working with there web site so no info from it

@@daz9062 That's a bummer -- has it ever worked? I'd probably start by doing a factory reset and taking another run at the initial setup.

Sorry for the delay in replying -- the Duotight fitting that attaches to the barb coming out of the Core 360 Mini regulator is a 6.5mm to 8mm reducer, and then you can use 8mm outer diameter evabarrier hose and connect to a Duotight gas ball lock disconnect. Let me know if that isn't what you were asking, and thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching Dave!

@@tubedinoz Since this video I've moved up to 5 gallon kegs in a kegerator so I don't use it as heavily as I used to, but I use it occasionally on small Oxebar kegs and it's holding up great! I actually wound up getting a second one and these are all I use on those small kegs. Thanks for watching and commenting! Cheers!

@irondalebrewing Thanks for your reply. I run 2 x 9.5 litre (2.5 gallon) kegs with rear sealing taps, which are prone to issues with beer in the taps causing issues with sticking, when the beer drys out. I did initially look at a couple of the regular ss nukataps, but they are quite large for my smaller kegs. Based on your feedback, I think I'll go with a couple of the Nuka minis instead. Cheers 🍻

@@tubedinoz Nice! Keep me posted on how they work for you!

Excellent, thanks! Will try that next time!

Thanks! I assume that's just with the malt pipe or do you use a bag as well? I did 0.04" on my first BrewZilla batch just using the malt pipe and got 62% efficiency, but could be that the setting indicator wasn't correct at that point either. Now that I have it as tight as it'll go I'll have to mess with getting the knobs to reflect the actual setting. I appreciate you watching and the feedback, and thanks for the tip on the mash temp control settings, worked great for this batch!

@@irondalebrewing just use the malt pipe and did sparge. After mashing in, waited 15min then did 45min of recirculation.

*facepalm* Yeah that would work much better. :) First time using it (other than just throwing it on there to help with chilling) and didn't even think about positioning it properly to get an actual whirlpool going. I appreciate the tip!

@@Cheezer1966 Thanks! Glad you found it helpful. Yep, this is a 220V 65L, picked it up when they had a rare sale on them even though it's twice as big as I'd typically need, but I definitely like having the 3500W. Glad you liked the hop fountain. :) Thanks for watching!

Yea I’ll have to order that one up for my next brew. I’ve ordered a few from them recently because my local HBS closed.

@@meir1224 Thanks! Great suggestion. And thanks for watching!

Thanks -- I'll mess around in Brewfather and see how some DME could work. I appreciate you sharing your approach. Thanks for watching!

@@GREEENZO thanks! The Brewzilla worked great this time. Hope it stays that way. Next brew day is in about a week so we'll see. Thanks for watching!

I REALLY appreciate you not letting me dump it! Now I have something as a first try on this Black IPA to see what I want to change next time, and it's drinking pretty well now that it settled down a bit. I'm glad I wound up with beer for the effort, messy as it was to get there! Cheers!

I know a couple of other people who really like Atomic Pumpkin -- just goes to show you how different people's preferences and palates can be. I'm with you on Pumpking, I can take maybe one and then I don't need anymore for a year, and that artificial characteristic definitely builds up. I'll have to try Atomic Pumpkin again this year and see if I come around any on it. ;-) Thanks for watching!

@@preuc3367 if you have examples of ones you like I'd love to try some! Cheers!

@@irondalebrewingI prefer maris based with some nice caramel, minimal hops but some subtle noble character and then a nice neutral yeast with pumpkin added to the mash. Abv 5%

Ha thanks! It's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it. :) Thanks for watching!

@@preuc3367 Cheers! Thanks for watching!

@@WreckedBrewery Yep definitely seems like I'll be finding all sorts of uses for this thing! Cheers!

Thanks for watching and subscribing!

Yep, great points! Hopefully I can remember that step on future batches.

@@GREEENZO Yep! Got beer out of it so it's a win, and the subsequent brew day on the new Brewzilla went much bettet. :) Thanks for watching!

Yep, pretty darn tasty! Thanks for watching!

Thanks! I was pleased with this one. Great point about stirring -- I stir about every 15 minutes to make sure nothing is clumped up, and because I can't help myself. ;) I was a bit concerned on this first batch with too much grain getting through the false bottom so the mill setting I used for this batch (Mighty Mill 3 roller) was 0.04". I have a couple more Brewzilla brew day videos in the works where I milled the grains finer and used a brew bag but still got about the same efficiency. Another viewer said that to him the shot of the grains in this video after I removed the malt pipe looked like there were quite a lot of whole grains in there ("It should look more like oatmeal" is specifically what he said), so I'm going to run some sacrificial grain through the mill and mess with the settings to make sure it's doing what I think it's doing. I might also mill my next batch twice and see if that helps. I wouldn't mind getting up to something like 70% but as you said consistency is the main thing. I did get a lot better efficiency (usually around 80%) doing small batches with a brew bag in a kettle, which is kind of interesting. Anyway, lots to experiment with which is a big part of the fun. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for watching!

@@irondalebrewing I started out doing BIAB as well and did have to double crush my grains to get my efficiency up. My Brewzilla is a couple years old, V3 and I did have to change a few of the base values in Brewfather to be more in line with my setup. Grain crush is important in any system and yours did look undercrushed Anyways keep brewing and enjoying this hobby of ours and in the end as long as we’re making good beers that are enjoyable to drink don’t get too hung up on efficiency. I’ll keep watching your content as well.

@@PABrewNews thanks for watching and subscribing!

@@preuc3367 I'm gonna need a bigger fridge!

@@FermentationAdventures Thanks! I was really pleased with how it came out, despite the low efficiency/OG. I'll definitely take another run at this one.

Yep, I didn't have great luck with it. It was pretty finicky to use. I've since purchased a KegLand Rapt Filler that I'll do a video on soon. Thanks for watching!

@@arneschmidt3445 Yep, sorry I didn't follow up on this! It made the dripping issue about 98% better, so definitely a win. Basically if I just wipe it down a couple of times during the boil it's good which is WAY better than before. I've since added a 65L BrewZilla that I run over by a window with a fan blowing the steam out the window, but when I do a smaller batch this has proven to be a big improvement. Thanks for watching!

Forgot to mention -- I also started doing 30 minute boils which helped too. Just have to up the hops accordingly to compensate for the shorter boil.

Thanks for the excellent beer Kurt!

@@AlmostAny1 Taste pretty great too. Thanks for watching!

@@kegtapper09 thanks, another great use case for these!

@@CTP-bbq-HundHutte Do you mean you think the finished beer is a little too sweet? That was kind of my reaction as well, particularly with the I Heart IPA. I tend to like pretty dry beers though. If the I Heart IPA was a bit more crisp in the finish that would be a big improvement IMO but everyone's tastes are different of course.

@@irondalebrewing yes I think they are a little too sweet but they are still drinkable and for the amount of work that goes into them I will definitely keep trying them

@@martyandjamie thanks for watching!

@@stripeyjoe Nice! Thanks for the suggestion!

@@WreckedBrewery Yep! The amount and technique worked well. I'll apologize in advance for mine.

@@tjschuldt197 Hmm that's odd. Have you tried a different ball lock post or disconnect? Could also be the post wasn't fully sealed maybe? I had one leak a little when the parts of the post weren't tightened up.

Interesting, thanks for sharing that! On the instruction sheets they have you add three gallons, then add the ingredients, and then add another two gallons, so it's interesting they have an FAQ that says to top the fermenter up to 5 gallons. You of course do lose a bit of volume from the trub so in the two batches I've done I found that if you use 5 gallons of water you wind up with pretty much exactly 5 gallons of finished beer, but seems like some consistency/clarity would be helpful. Thanks for watching!