FermZilla Essential Accessory Kit - 7.1 GAL / 27L

Name: FermZilla Essential Accessory Kit - 7.1 GAL / 27L
Brand: KegLand
SKU: FE131+FE134+FE136+FE961
Price: 179.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Quick Overview

Everything you need to get the most out of your FermZilla. Take advantage of the savings when you purchase this kit instead of individually!

This Kit Includes:

Jacket for 27L / 7.1 GAL FermZilla - KL11488
Pressure Kit for 27L / 7.1 GAL FermZilla - KB01609
FermZilla Handle Kit - Stainless Steel - KL13079
Version 2 - Duotight BlowTie Diaphragm Spunding Valve w/ Integrated Pressure Gauge (0-23 PSI) Complete Kit

Product Overview


Use the Insulated Jacket to control temperature during the hottest and coldest months of the year.	The pressure kit allows you to ferment under pressure, carbonate and keg / bottle / serve directly from your FermZilla!	The BlowTie is used to release excess pressure on a pressurized fermenter or from a receiving keg during pressure transfers. This diaphragm spunding valve is much more accurate than the spring and poppet style, and works much better at lower pressures.	The handle kit makes it easier to lift and move the fermenter on and off the included stand.

Insulated Jacket:

This jacket is designed to insulate your FermZilla during the colder months to keep your fermentation at the optimun temperature. It can also be used with a heating belt/wrap to warm up the wort if the heat from the fermentation isn't enough.

Also completely blocks any light/UV to prevent light stuck beer.

Pressure Kit:

With the FermZilla Pressure Kit you can ferment under pressure, carbonate, and serve without ever needing to move your beer out of the fermenter. The kit inlcudes two female threaded ball lock fittings with barbs, which thread onto the existing openings atop the FermZilla's lid. For the beverage out, you'll have a silicone dip tube with stainless steel float, allowing you to always draw from the clearest beer at the top of the tank. Pick up the Pressure Kit and turn your FermZilla into a true unitank!

Fermenting Under Pressure:

The pressure kit allows for fermenting under pressure, which will reduce esters and fusel alcohol production. This means you can ferment at warmer temperatures than you normally would, even making lagers at room temperature. Most commerical beer is fermented under pressure simply due to the size of commercial tanks and the pressure that is created by the column of beer. It is one of the distinct differences between homebrewing and brewing on a commercial scale. The FermZilla's lid already comes with a built-in pressure relief valve that will blow at 35 psi; the pressure kit simply allows you to add CO2 through the ball lock fitting. We strongly recommend that you also purchase an adjustable pressure relief valve, or spunding valve, which allows you to set a lower pressure. It's always a good idea to have two relief valves on the FermZilla anytime the unit is under pressure.

Carbonating, Transferring, and Serving:

When you are fermenting under pressure the beer is already carbonated when you are done fermenting. You can control the level of carbonation by using a spunding valve. This means you can eliminate kegging and serve directly from the fermenter. We love this idea but there will probably still be times that you want to keg. Attach a beer line from the FermZilla's bev out to your keg and enjoy the easiest kegging experience ever. You can also choose to send carbonated beer through a beer filter on the way to your keg. When applying pressure with a CO2 tank also make sure that you have a functional relief valve on your CO2 regulator.

Eliminate Oxidation:

Since the beer always has a CO2 blanket through fermentation and during any transfers out, oxidation is eliminated. When you cold crash you won't be sucking air back in through an airlock.

Key Features:

Ferment beer under pressure to reduce ester and fusel alcohol production
Always draw clear beer with the floating dip tube
Keg beer that has already been carbonated
Use CO2 to push beer into a keg or through a filter into a keg
Eliminate kegging altogether by carbonating and serving directly from the FermZilla

BlowTie Diaphragm Spunding Valve Complete Kit:

With this complete kit you'll be ready to use the BlowTie Spunding Valve right out of the box. The BlowTie is used to release excess pressure on a pressurized fermenter or from a receiving keg during pressure transfers. This diaphragm spunding valve is much more accurate than the spring and poppet style, and works much better at lower pressures.

Pressure Fermentation

Pressure fermentation is becoming more and more popular at the homebrew level, but in order to do it safely and accurately, you need a way to release excess pressure. You'll pressurize your vessel to your desired psi, but once fermentation begins and those hungry, active yeast start creating CO2, the pressure inside the vessel will increase. Attach a spunding valve and set it to your desired pressure, and it will blow off when the pressure gets to high and close up again when it's back to your desired psi.

Pressure Transfers

Even if you don't have a pressurizable fermenter, you may have done pressure transfers from keg to keg during filtering or after fining. During pressure transfers, it's a good idea to have a bit of head pressure in the receiving keg, especially if you're transferring beer that is already carbonated. Having a spunding valve in place will allow you to consistently control the head pressure and give you more consistent results, without losing carbonation in the process.

Diaphragm vs. Poppet

With the poppet style spunding valve, a spring pushes against a poppet to keep the valve closed. When the poppet lifts up to open, the surface area the gas pushes against becomes larger, and the spring has to work harder to push the poppet down and reseal the valve. This can lead to more gas being released than intended, and the remaining pressure in your vessel may be at a lower psi than your spunding valve’s set psi.

Instead of a poppet, the spring inside the BlowTie pushes against a diaphragm, which has an immensely larger surface area. This means the surface area that the gas pushes against while the diaphragm is closed is significantly closer to the surface area it pushes against when the diaphragm is open. This leads to higher accuracy, and the remaining pressure after excess gas is released will be much closer to your set blow off pressure.

Kit Includes:

BlowTie
Pressure Gauge
Ball Lock Disconnect
Duotight Tee & Flared Duotight Fitting
2x Lengths of EVABarrier 8mm OD Tubing

Handle Kit

These handles are made from 304 stainless steel and wll suit the large family of FermZilla fermenters/uni tanks/bright tanks. The handles are made from 5.5mm thick 304 grade sainless steel and held together with stainless bolts. These handles are suitable to take load up to 100kg. These stainless steel handles make it easy to manouver, lift, wash and carry your FermZilla.

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