Bottling from 55L fermzilla

[Jfmed]

Hi everyone, I had a question regarding the fermzilla that I cant seem to find an answer to. I was wondering if it was possible to add the priming sugar to the fermzilla the same way one would dry hop and then proceed to use pressure and a bottling wand to move the beer into bottles. I don’t have keg equipment so I need to bottle the beer. The real question is: would adding the sugar this way make sure its properly mixed, or do I risk all the sugar staying in the bottom half of the fermenter?

Thanks!

 

[IslandLizard]

Thoroughly mixing the priming sugar into the beer in your fermenter is impossible without stirring up the yeast/trub cake on the bottom. Unless you drop all the yeast/trub beforehand, which can be tricky or incomplete.

Best common way is to rack the beer (not the trub) to a bottling bucket containing the priming sugar solution and give it a stir to mix. Then bottle from there.

Or...
Prime each bottle with the right amount of sugar and siphon the clear beer from your Fermzilla into each bottle.

 

[Jfmed]

Thoroughly mixing the priming sugar into the beer in your fermenter is impossible without stirring up the yeast/trub cake on the bottom. Unless you drop all the yeast/trub beforehand, which can be tricky or incomplete.

Best common way is to rack the beer (not the trub) to a bottling bucket containing the priming sugar solution and give it a stir to mix. Then bottle from there.

Or...
Prime each bottle with the right amount of sugar and siphon the clear beer from your Fermzilla into each bottle.

I guess I'll try racking it to my bottling bucket with the solution in it. Sucks that I have to do it twice because my buckets don't hold 55L but for now it will do. Thanks!

 

[IslandLizard]

I guess I'll try racking it to my bottling bucket with the solution in it. Sucks that I have to do it twice because my buckets don't hold 55L but for now it will do. Thanks!

If you have another 55l Fermzilla you can do a closed transfer of your beer into that (leaving trub behind), under a little pressure.
But it's really easy to bottle two 22 liter batches, one after the other, while you're at it.

Maybe look into kegging. You only use 2 "bottles," they're just big, 5 gallon ones.

 

[Surly]

I attach a bottling wand directly to my fermentor. One tab of Coopers drop per bottle works great. I usually keg the first Five gallons and bottle the rest.

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[LloydGM]

If you have another 55l Fermzilla you can do a closed transfer of your beer into that (leaving trub behind), under a little pressure.
But it's really easy to bottle two 22 liter batches, one after the other, while you're at it.

Maybe look into kegging. You only use 2 "bottles," they're just big, 5 gallon ones.

A 2nd 55L All Rounder can be had from Long Island Homebrew for only $60.

I just bought a FermZilla All Rounder. Since I can't afford the kegging gear just yet, I'm going to use the counter pressure filler to fill bottles directly from my FermZilla. I won't have enough CO2 in-solution, though, so I'll use an online calculator to determine how much dextrose I'll need to add to each bottle, then xfer'ing partially-carbonated beer from the FermZilla should do it. That's my battle plan, at least. Of course, plans usually fail upon enemy contact. Not that bottles are my enemy, though I sure hate filling them. (To make it better, I focus on how much fun it'll be emptying them!)