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LeeH

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Top tip, don’t in your haste forget to clip on the spunding valve on your fermzilla. BOOM! I now have 20L of passion fruit sour all over the garage floor and a very stinky and sticky FV fridge. *sad face.

She’s not a pretty sight.
 
I think it came out of the bottom joints before the PRV went as most of the mess is at low level.
 
Gutted, it smelt super funky. (And still does tbf) I’m also blaming that madness which is Kviek yeast for trying to ferment everything out in 24 hours.
 
Top tip, don’t in your haste forget to clip on the spunding valve on your fermzilla. BOOM! I now have 20L of passion fruit sour all over the garage floor and a very stinky and sticky FV fridge. *sad face.

She’s not a pretty sight.
I took the spunding valve off mine during my last brew. When zi refitted it, 12 hours later, it had gone from zero to about 34 psi. It's no joke!
 
Im surprised at that!

Have you seen the where Keg king pressurized their tank to fail. I think it got to 105 psi before the lid failed.




buddsy
 
Top tip, don’t in your haste forget to clip on the spunding valve on your fermzilla. BOOM! I now have 20L of passion fruit sour all over the garage floor and a very stinky and sticky FV fridge. *sad face.

She’s not a pretty sight.
If it has rooted the vessel, claim on warranty, the PRV is there to prevent any thing like that happening, user error or not.
 
I went to switch my inkbird off for the cold crash the other day and switched my freezer off instead. The wife doesnt know....
 
Im surprised at that!

Have you seen the where Keg king pressurized their tank to fail. I think it got to 105 psi before the lid failed.




buddsy


It did not fail, I presume it came out of the point of least resistance. I only screw it together lightly as that is all it needs to hold 10 psi or so. With no sounding valve it would have gone way over that.
 
My latest big whoopsie-daisy was forgetting to put the pump filter on in my Grainfather. "No problem" I thought, "I'll just lift the grain basket out, plonk it in a bucket, don my heat proof rubber gauntlets, pop it on and put the grain basket back in" ( I had noticed the missing filter just before I started the mash but grain was already doughed in)

All went well until I decided to pour back in a litre or two of wort that was left in the bucket I used to hold the grain basket while putting the filter on. I had forgotten that I had put 50-60ml of undiluted stars/chemsan in the bucket prior to trying to fix the filter issue.

I measured the mash PH and it was 3.... safe to say it all went down the toilet

Top tip, don’t in your haste forget to clip on the spunding valve on your fermzilla. BOOM! I now have 20L of passion fruit sour all over the garage floor and a very stinky and sticky FV fridge. *sad face.

She’s not a pretty sight.

Last night I dry hopped (second addition) through the top of my Fermzilla while pushing Co2 through the bottom, I had the pressure up a little too high at first. I'll call it a dry hop rouse athumb.. Another classic is putting the spunding valve on the liquid out post so as the pressure inside builds up it slowly empties itself of beer out of the spunding valve/airlock

I know what I'm doing... honest...
 
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