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I’m a fairly new to this, only 7 brews but learned about oxidation and iPAs on brew 2 and how that was a thing. I love my IPAs so wanted to take that seriously! That drove me to pressure fermentation/fermzilla all rounder, kegging and closed transfers. Then getting a kegerator for temp control...

Hey Cayde - Love it! Can I get another one? :)

Yeah, I'll be brewing a Hefeweizen next since I have 1/2 of a unused kit. Any IPA kits of recipes you can recommend, especially with Kveik yeasts :) or Saison for that matter ?

This most recent brew #4, I stepped up the process a bit. Went from Fermonster's and bottling bucket to Fermzilla All Rounder, (pressure fermenting), and kegs (closed transfers), inkbirds for heat control, ispindel for gravity readings, and a kegerator for fermentation, and cold crashing needs...

I think going forward, I’ll be making yeast starters now that I know how to do it. GTK your success with NB kits!

After I pulled samples via the wine thief, my hydrometer showed I was down to 1.010, so clearly the fermentation was close to done. Thanks for bringing this all up!

wow, that was quick, just got it!!! is it ready to use or should charge it? ty

Thanks for getting me setup for the ispindel order. Quick service and look forward in playing with it!

sounds great!!

Wow, this looks awesome. One question, if I plan to connect via wifi, is there any issues with connectivity once located inside a fermentation fridge?

Just an update, after 24 hours, the bubbling period came down to ~ 30 seconds, and 48 hours later, it's just a little below that. Refractometer reading is 1.028 from 1.035, so seems like progress to me!

love it!

I just bought a wine thief so I can extract a sample from my fermonster, so will be doing a hydrometer test in a couple days. Ever since I added the yeast starter, it's bubbling consistently every minute. Before it every 90-120 seconds. And thats after 4 hours, imagine it should be even more...

<Did you ever just swirl the beer around in the fermenter and see if it would get active again?> I thought about it for a quick minute, but after reading about the original gravity, and the fact that this was on the high side, I may have needed a yeast starter in the first place, so wanted to...

I was having a stuck fermentation on my first All grain/BIAB brew using Northern Brewer's Fruit Bazooka IPA. Original Gravity started at 1.057, went down to ~ 1.035 and pretty stayed there even after 14 days. Target gravity ~ 1.005. My ferrm temp was 77F and first thing I did was to bump the...

Would love a inkbird since I need to build a fermenter chamber!

I see, thanks for those points. I think I'll be using it most day to day to check to see if fermentation is done. Being that it's all relative, at least 3 days in a row, will give me that signal, and I'll take final via the hydrometer.

updates: bottled it after 10 days of fermentation. Last few readings on the hydrometer were consistent. Learned from bottling that I could probably use a siphon pump instead of just the spigot to transfer to the bottling bucket as the spigot was slow to drain as it was getting clogged. Final...

Actually, I looked up Aeration and oxidation, and it looks like I "roused" the yeast by swirling it, and didn't actually open the lid, so maybe not nearly as bad

So even if I get 3 days of constant hydrometer readings, it's still not ready? Is there any other signs of readiness?