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Thanks so much for sharing this!

I was listening to that in my car and the second he said it I yelled "But you're not boiling it!" 🤣

Sight glass is now standard on the Gen 4.1. I recently got a 65L and it came with the sight glass and an upgraded (25W) pump.

The one instance in which I've had a leak was from the gas post itself not being all tightened up, specifically at the spot with the arrow pointing to it in this picture. (Sorry, there's probably terms for all the various parts of the bulkhead but I have no idea what they are.)

Nope, I didn't sparge. Prior to getting the Brewzilla I was doing 2.5 gallon BIAB no sparge in a 5.5 gallon kettle on an induction cooktop and was getting about 80% efficiency so I figured I'd continue on with no sparge in the Brewzilla. I realized I'd get lower efficiency so I planned for 70%...

Thanks for that! It was definitely a bit chaotic for the first brew since I didn't have a process down yet. Good to know that wasn't just me! I took notes as I went and made a list of things to get to make things less hectic, like longer hoses for chilling so I don't have to wheel the Brewzilla...

The Oxebar kegs are rated to last at least two years, at which point you're supposed to do a pressure test.

I made the I Heart IPA kit today and took a quick video of it. I took @BrewZer 's suggestion and threw an iSpindel in this batch to track what the temp does over the course of fermentation. OG is 1.01 according to the iSpindel. 😁 So, uh, I guess now we know what the gravity reading sitting on...

First brew on my new Brewzilla Gen 4 for me today! Doing an American Amber using locally grown and locally floor malted two-row, some crystal 40 and crystal 80, a bit of Carafa I, and Warrior, Cascade, and Centennial hops. Looking forward to getting the first go on the Brewzilla under my belt.

I did a compilation video of the fermentation process at various stages as well as what it looks like after cold crashing for 4 days (was only intending on 3, but had some stuff come up), and did a quick taste after I got it kegged. My initial reaction is it's pretty good!

Ha! Fair point. I'm kegging today so I'll find out first hand in a week or so!

Another interesting MoreBeer video -- tl;dw they submitted one of these beers (oddly, they don't say which one in the video) in a homebrew competition and scored a 34.

Ah, gotcha. Sorry, I was stuck on the Inkbird controller and controlling fermentation temps vs. just monitoring the temp of the fermenting wort. I do have an iSpindel as well so it might be fun to throw that in there. From what I read elsewhere the pill hydrometers don't do so great with...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but when I do the next kit I'm planning on letting it ferment at room temperature, so tracking the room temp with one of these would just be to know the temps in the room over the course of the fermentation as a data point. The kit I'm about to keg I...

Thanks! It's fun to mess with all this stuff and I'm really enjoying the discussion and discovery. Yep, ambient for me would be in my 160 sq ft brewing space with a mini split so it'd be 68-ish most of the time. I also forgot they said light doesn't matter so although when I'm not in that space...

Currently cold crashing and will keg on Monday or Tuesday. I took some quick progress videos during fermentation so I'll throw those together with a video of kegging, and then do the tasting after a week or so in the keg. Since I'm going to do a closed transfer into an Oxebar keg (used this...

Me too. :) Mine has another 6 days to finish fermenting (I'm giving it a full 14 days), then I'm going to cold crash and keg, but somebody has to be further along than I am!

Same consistency as every DME I've ever used. It was a bit clumpy in the fermenter when I first dumped it in, because hey you're dumping DME into water and only agitating it by dumping more water on top of it, but the yeast tore through it pretty quickly.

I did an overview video of unboxing and making the kit: There's some beginning brewer stuff about fermenters and sanitization but I included chapters so you can skip to the stuff you might be interested in. I thought it was a pretty fun process! I'm going to give it a full 2 weeks at 68F, keg...

Totally agree with this. I'll be doing my first Flash kit soon, but I can't imagine MoreBeer would release something that was total garbage just to make a quick buck -- that would be extremely short-sighted. And to me anyway they're targeting what I would guess is the #1 point of friction for...