Brewing a Lager At Room Temperature? W34/70 vs Novalager: From Fermonster to Oxebar Which Will Win?

Thanks for this video. Great comparison! Cheers🍻🍻

Moldelo Especial

Pear is a shape, I use that all the time!

Replace the oxebar evabarrier line with silicone tubing. It works so much better

Love your videos Brad , always looking forward to a F*** up Friday , Gets me ready for the weekend, 🍀

Replace those dip tubes with the same material as Fermzilla. Class video as always.

Im totaly into moldy kits from now on!

I fucked up a few weeks ago and pitched nova at 27c (thought it was 21) and then my STC1000 failed and my fridge didn't work properly so that fucker rose to 30c but thankfully it was under 20psi.
the final beer is, honestly, surprisingly, fine? a cold IPA with a lot of cascade, centennial and chinnok, but no weird off flavours.

I usually leave the wort in the box and siphon it into the fermenter

Good comparison, with brewing you never really know what you may get !

the angle cut on the hard tubing is to help push it into the little silicon elbow. but yeah as others mentioned just replace it all with silicon and you can ditch the rigid and the elbow

Does Paul know you served up some mold beer hah! Great video though guys! As for a stand for the PET kegs, just use a 5 gallon pail. I’m surprised at the results and expected the Novalager to finish cleaner.

It's hard to watch the amount of bad advice you offer to new homebrewers. Your video could be the reason this hobby is slowly dying. Brewing a lager is not easy and requires technique and experience. Don’t make the European ancestors cry 😢

Brewday, what brewday😂

Ive done that same kit at 20C under 15psi. Worked great. Done it a few times.

Spraying the foam with starsan helps make it go down.

VEI HEN STEF HON - Weihenstephan

Turn the bucket upright and place the keg inside, it won't fall over.

I had an epiphany on my last brew day thinking about the previous discussion of weight in the floating dip tube. I have some of those carb caps in stainless, and I was taking one apart to clean it. The inside barbed part is the perfect size and weight to fit into the screen pickup. And the weight was perfect.

Pro Tip: Its easier to pour when its still in the box.

mold vs yeast 😂

I've had great luck brewing at room temperature with Novalager under pressure. I'm still looking for a comparison between a room temp Novalager and a traditionally done lager.

try leaving the bag in the box so you have a rigid container to pour from.

Try the FlotIt 2.0 floating dip tube. Light years better than the Kegland ball

First time seeing one of your vids. Man, the shifting camera angles and zooms every 2 seconds is giving me a headache, had to tune out. Thanks though.

Anxious the whole time the fermenter was open 😅

man you are so bad at this

good shit(content)

The keg has the ridgid hose so you can lay them down in a fridge or a cooler box etc

You should have used 3 fermonsters with 2gal each and use the original yeast in the third one

But one kit looked like lighter wort at the start

So I tried the Conti Pil with the 34/70 full batch. I fermented for 14 days, no pressure, double pitch (two packets 34/70) at about 65F. I stalled at about 1.022. Added 1/2 tsp nutrient and moved fermenter to warmer room about 72 for another 7 days. No change. Any suggestions as what went wrong? I am new to home brewing…

Would love to get hold of some of those fermonsters here in the UK but they don't seem to be available. Amazon will sell me one for £126 😲 though.

I gave up using Novalager and went back to S-23. Much better results.

I use a blow off hose in every brew.

Cut the corner of the box out and pull the nozel out then close up and reseal the box. Easy to pour then