YES the O2 was out of stock for almost 2 years which we were all very disappointed about but finally its back!

Thanks for that Peter. We appreciate it!

aerate daily can be a bit risky. It's ok fir the first couple of days but giving too much oxygen once you are days into the fermentation will degrate the beer in other ways.

Have you seen the hop bong video. If you insert the carbonation stone into the hop bong this makes the perfect product for dosing oxygen inline. When you have a closed system like this you have the added benefit of increasing the absorption and not as much blows off into the air so it's a good way to go. I probably should have shown this on the video too.

Thank you@@KegLand - I hadn't seen that but I just watched it and wow! Exactly what I need! :)

Stirring after you pitch is fine. I would not be concerned about that. As long as you get the oxygen into the wort either at pitching time or close to it then you will be fine. The yeast can handle the drill mixer too so I would not be too concerned about that.

Yes provided that the wort is cold by the time it goes through the sparge head then you will probably get close to 8ppm saturation with this.

I also put one of your taps on that bucket so I can refill my spray bottle and pour in bottles and such. Very handy.

@@dyaballikl Yes this is a good idea. If you have diluted stellarsan sitting for a long time it's worth checking the PH every now and then to make sure it's below 2.6pH. If that is the case then you can use it indefinitely. Thanks for that Dyaballikl. This is a good tip!

If you use the pump kit to oxygenate the wort then this will be fine for standard gravity beers. I personally think if you want to do really great lagers even if they are not high gravity then you should either: 1. Add loads more yeast (4 x 11gram packs) 2. Make a starter (remember to add nutrient) 3. Pitch 2 x 11gram packs in fermenter and use pure oxygen Either one of these solutions will get you to a good result.

@KegLand Thanks heaps! I make starters for all my brews (typically 1 x 11g pack of yeast, scaled to pitch a 40-50L batch). So just to clarify if you're hitting the right pitch rate w/ an oxygenated and nutrient filled starter that has an adequate cell count, you don't need to oxygenate the wort? Thanks for all the work you guys do! My garage wouldn't be the same without yah :)

@@NykolaiMcherron Hey mate, the volume of your starter is probably the most critical element at play. Yeast will reach a maximum density per litre pretty quickly. For starters...you are on the right track that CONTINUOUS oxygen is really important. Ain't nobody can afford to continuously flow O2, so an aquarium pump is the way to go. It's also great if you can continually dose carbohydrate, that's what a yeast bioreactor does, which is how yeast companies grow up volumes of yeast. It also allows 'toxic' CO2 to be knocked out of suspension. On the homebrew scale, go as big a volume starter as you can, add a stir bar/plate to knock the CO2 out of suspension, have a stone and aquarium pump to continually add oxygen. I know you are good for yeast nutrients, make sure there is plenty of zinc available. Don't use DAP though. Keep it nice and warm too. Should be fully grown in 24-48 hours. Aerobic pathways produce 18 times the energy of anaerobic pathways.

@andrewbarker1190 Perfect! Thanks heaps Andrew :)

While dry yeasts are packaged with O2 and nutrients, best practice is definitely to alos oxygenate and use nutrient for a healhy fermentation

How come all of the yeast pitch calculators would say otherwise? Especially for lagers.

@@joshuapinter Because they all copy each other

It's fair to say that if you pitch a bucketload of least in your lager and pilsners then you might be able to get away without using oxygen but when you start pitching this much yeast you will also find that it costs more than just purchasing the oxygen especially if you are brewing lagers and pilsners frequently. There is a very good reason why professional breweries use oxygen frequently and that is because it works.

@@KegLand It is also fair to say that you don't need to add oxygen to normal pitch levels, which numerous experiments show. Oxygen is needed when you re-pitch the yeast, otherwise it will run out of its store of sterols after a couple of generations. Fermentis even recommends NOT to add oxygen as it will not have any benefits and it risks adding contaminations. "We don’t recommend aerating the wort in normal conditions. The dry yeast has been produced and dried with a specific know-how of the Lesaffre Group, in order to maximize the Ergosterols content of the cells. This allows the yeast to grow/multiply and ferment well.However, you could aerate the wort in particular cases, for example if you recycle the yeast. There is no difference (for the O2) between Ale and Lager."

​@@fdk7014i think it's only recommended for liquid yeast

Yes, nitrogen too

Yes finally. Sorry for the long wait. Covid really caused some issues to these DG products and getting them shipped.

I will keep that in mind! : )

I'm actually curious to know which products do you think need improvement. I have a few Kegland products and I'm super happy with all of them.

I am sorry to hear that. As a company I would say we spend more on new product development than any other company in the home brew industry. With that said if there is a particular product that you think we need to re-design please let us know the specifics of it and we would be more than happy to look into this.

@@hugojeller tri-clover lid is trash. The thermowell is trash on all lid configurations. Can't read temperature accurately when it's pretty much touching the temp twister. With the tri clover it's actually touching.. Even if bent like is in assembly instructions. I mean, the thermowell isn't cheap. I can't figure out why it's not bent correctly when purchasing. I have hop bong attachment that I'll never be able to use because temp twister being set up correctly is more important for my uses. The tri-clover lid also has severe connection problems after adding all accessories. There's no third ball lock on any lid type to attach spunding valve while force carbonating. Had to use the useless thermowell hole to attach the additional ball lock to do this. The thermowell shouldn't even be an option though because with any lid type it's pretty much touching the temp twister. I contacted whoever runs the Facebook account and they just kept blaming kegland china (I'm in asia). Quite a few times I've been in huge time crunches where i really need a product and they'll wait weeks until the order times out without contacting customer so i wait weeks to find out my product isn't going to be shipped at all rather than communicating with my multiple requests asking if it will be shipped. It's impossible to tell because all orders are shipped last day before cancelation anyways. Kegland china doesn't communicate on any sales platform at all. (alibaba, shopee, lazada). Biggest thing that made me mad though was the way whoever runs the Facebook account offered no relevant help whatsoever. If they were nicer i probably wouldn't care as much, but they were pretty much 🍆 about it and super dismissive. It ruined my outlook on the company.

Overall I’m definitely happy with the items I get from KegLand. Sure, many could be improved by overengineering them, but that could push them out of the range of hobby-level affordability. I’m not building a spaceship and don’t need that level of precision. KegLand to me means “inexpensive enough to buy, good enough (even great, sometimes) to use.”