Nullnvoid
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I could've sworn Gash's unboxing video had a dent in his one, but he didn't mention it.
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I could've sworn Gash's unboxing video had a dent in his one, but he didn't mention it.
Won't these just pop out the second you ferment under pressure? Interested to hear your experience after you use it. I can't say that any of the dents in the unboxing video would worry me unduly, but I understand everyone is different. For me, there's just so much clever design that's gone into these that I can't wait to get my hands on one. Sadly, I'm one of the multitude who missed out on the first couple of releases. I'm now at the point where I think I'll wait for the more temperature resistant material - I like the idea of being able to use boiling/near boiling water for sanitising and cleaning.I was fairly sure that it had come from the manufacturing process, its hard to put a dent in them manually, at least mine only has one, the unboxing video has several.
He wouldn't, probably getting paid to promote it, I think the Aussie home brewer would probably more forgiving than a European or American home brewer who could be more inclined to return it if it wasn't aesthetically appealing.I could've sworn Gash's unboxing video had a dent in his one, but he didn't mention it.
Yep, unboxed mine on the weekend and it has a decent sized dent on the bottom conical side. Not sure if it has something to do with the fact it was basically just sitting loosely on the collection bottle in the box. The box had a pretty serious dent in the top corner too before I picked it up so I assume there was pressure on the top of the fermenter whilst transporting and it’s pushed it down against the collection bottle.So got my Fermzilla thanks to Bbowzky1, much appreciated mate, (this is someone who should give a bit more time to post on here) took it along to our club meet for the unveiling everyone was in anticipation to get their first view.
1) Big tick of approval the large diameter opening.
2) Big tick of approval the larger dump valve, although most thought it was a bit of over kill.
3) Unfortunately there were 2 large scratches on the outside of the body, don't know if it is PET or plastic, I doubt whether they were deep enough to cause any problem fermenting under pressure just that I was expecting a pristine finish on a new product.
4) The seal at the bottom of the fermenter looks like black rubber, obviously I doubt that it is but maybe KL could confirm what the material is.
5) The most disappointing of the reveal, a dent in the PET or whatever the material is at the bottom of the fermenter. No damage on the box so looks like it was boxed with dent, don't know if it was from the process of the blow moulding or the attaching of the fittings.
Anyone else found a similar problem with denting?
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This all makes sense WEAL, but will take away 1 of the things I was really looking forward to with using this Fermzilla, which is rousing up after my dry hop additions to get full utilisation out of this dry hop process. My plan was to dump the yeast after fermentation is basically done, and then replace the collection bottle with the dry hops which have been purged with co2. After a few days hook up the co2 to the collection bottle via a carbonation cap/post and rouse the hops off the bottom and get them flowing about again.
I guess I could leave the yeast in the bottle, dry hop through the top & rouse co2 through the beer out post & dip tube. Has anyone done this with the version 1? Would it disturb the yeast too much?
P.S. I love our man Jasper! Keep Drinkin'!
That is pretty crap. What have KL said?Yep, unboxed mine on the weekend and it has a decent sized dent on the bottom conical side. Not sure if it has something to do with the fact it was basically just sitting loosely on the collection bottle in the box. The box had a pretty serious dent in the top corner too before I picked it up so I assume there was pressure on the top of the fermenter whilst transporting and it’s pushed it down against the collection bottle.
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Edit: it has three smaller dents at other points in the fermenter but not close to as bad as the one pictured
I emailed them the pics yesterday and they said it’s the “reality of shipping thin-walled vessels”, the fermenters are “designed to endure minor deformations such as this”, and “all small dents will push out and settle with use and positive pressure”. Apparently (the flimsiness?) is a necessary design so that they can withstand suction during cold crash.Has anyone tried to return? If mine had been dented I’d be pretty annoyed...
Sure you can ferment in it but for the one @SpaceChef has the volume calibration will be a decent amount off (as well as overall volume being less than advertised)
See above. They don’t seem too fussed and certainly not offering a replacement.That is pretty crap. What have KL said?
So got my Fermzilla thanks to Bbowzky1, much appreciated mate, (this is someone who should give a bit more time to post on here) took it along to our club meet for the unveiling everyone was in anticipation to get their first view.
1) Big tick of approval the large diameter opening.
2) Big tick of approval the larger dump valve, although most thought it was a bit of over kill.
3) Unfortunately there were 2 large scratches on the outside of the body, don't know if it is PET or plastic, I doubt whether they were deep enough to cause any problem fermenting under pressure just that I was expecting a pristine finish on a new product.
4) The seal at the bottom of the fermenter looks like black rubber, obviously I doubt that it is but maybe KL could confirm what the material is.
5) The most disappointing of the reveal, a dent in the PET or whatever the material is at the bottom of the fermenter. No damage on the box so looks like it was boxed with dent, don't know if it was from the process of the blow moulding or the attaching of the fittings.
Anyone else found a similar problem with denting?
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No, both are in good condition no scratches or dents. That said, the stands were poking out of both cardboard boxes (one worse than the other), they should probably wrap the top ring of the stand in something protective as the PET 'bottle' just rattles around inside of it and that's only covered by a thin plastic bag which doesn't offer much protection. Packed on the cheaper side for sure, not that I'm a fan of excess packaging but yeah, room for improvement..
I emailed them the pics yesterday and they said it’s the “reality of shipping thin-walled vessels”, the fermenters are “designed to endure minor deformations such as this”, and “all small dents will push out and settle with use and positive pressure”. Apparently (the flimsiness?) is a necessary design so that they can withstand suction during cold crash.
I haven’t tried pushing it back out yet but I can’t imagine it will simply go back to its original form
See above. They don’t seem too fussed and certainly not offering a replacement.
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