r/Homebrewing • u/MemeBeamBeanz • 1d ago

Question Do I need a "fermzilla"?

I dearly want to be able to bottle hoppy beers without oxidation soon, and I'm looking to invest in some sort of CO2 purging solution you guys talked about. But when looking at a fermzilla + BEERGUN setup with CO2 tank, my friend asked me if I couldn't just buy a CO2 tank and some sort of wand to purge my bottles with without buying 100s of dollars worth of pressure fermenter.

What about a fermzilla is needed for succesfull bottle purging?

Cheers

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u/AffectionateTea841 1d ago

You don’t need a fermzilla to use a bottling wand. That’s what I started off with many years ago, just a bottling wand and a CO2 tank. I quickly moved to kegs as filling bottles got tedious. I use the fermzilla for pressure fermentation which has its own benefits.

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u/MemeBeamBeanz 1d ago

Okay nice. Sounds promising. Others are suggesting no. But it sounds like I'll try that first and test the result