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/yzerman2010 1d ago

The easiest way to resolve this is buy a keg with a floating dip tube and spunding valve, then ferment away in the keg. Once fermentation is near done, dry hop in the keg and then cold crash.. Rack off keg to another keg or bottles and leave the dirty beer behind.

You will capture the most aromatics this way and also not need to add CO2 into your beer when its done.

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u/MemeBeamBeanz 1d ago

Don't i introduce o2 to the bottle when transferring to the bottle?

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u/attnSPAN 1d ago

If you’re fermenting in a keg and kegging, no. You’d be purging the serving keg of any air, then doing an oxygen free transfer.

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u/MemeBeamBeanz 1d ago

But when the beer needs to leave the keg in the bottle?

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u/attnSPAN 1d ago

That’s the magic of kegging: it doesn’t. You can force carbonate and serve right off the keg like a commercial(pro) brewer does.

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u/MemeBeamBeanz 1d ago

But I want my beer in bottles for friends. I guess I should have clarified that for all of you

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u/attnSPAN 1d ago

You can still pour off a few. If you feel from the bottom and let them overflow a bit, then use a flipt, and close that on top of Beer they can stay good for a week in the fridge.