Making Beer Using Pressure Fermentation (And Why You Should.. or Should NOT.. Try this Method.)

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Жыл бұрын

Under Pressure...What is pressure fermentation, and when is it beneficial? In this video, Brian will answer all of these questions, as well as supply you with an extensive list of pros and cons. This is a great method for those of you who are interested in trying it out, but are also aware that it is not for everyone.
If you're curious about how pressure fermentation works, but are unsure if it's the right method for you, THIS is the video is for you! By the end, you'll understand pressure fermentation and be able to make an informed decision about whether or not to try it.
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@seamoremonster 13 күн бұрын

I may have been lucky...but I put down a West Coast IPA under pressure...filled up hop bags...released the pressure towards the end of the ferment and dropped the bags in...closed it up and brought it back up to 10 psi...it worked a treat...nice hoppy aromas...and beautiful crips finish.

@marcscott3690 Ай бұрын

Excellent video man. I watched it 3 times already. Now I'm going to try this one. I'm really surprised you don't have more subscribers. Good luck bro. Thanks

@BenhamBrewing Ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@alexey.manoylo 9 ай бұрын

Hi from Ukraine, I always ferment under a pressure of 2.5 bar, I didn’t notice any differences in taste from fermentation in the classic way with a water seal. A very cool method, I recommend it to everyone!

@BenhamBrewing 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@mikesands4508 Жыл бұрын

Great video, very well explained. I have been trying to find a video that explained pressure fermentation and so far this was the best. Thanks!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@smgri Жыл бұрын

That was one of the most clear and concise explanations I’ve ever seen ! Thanks so much,,,great vid!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@dudestewbrews Жыл бұрын

Very well explained! Just getting into pressure fermenting myself and it's great to have a little more knowledge under my belt.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@rivrivrivera2916 Жыл бұрын

Great job ! Thorough and easy to follow .

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@craigwhite4218 Жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thank you for explaining it in language newbies can understand.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Identace445 Жыл бұрын

That was very good info!! Thank you!!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@doctordrummerdude Жыл бұрын

Super explanation of pros and cons!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@brewski6806 Жыл бұрын

Great information! I just ordered the equipment to pressure ferment after watching your video!🍻

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Sweet! Keep us posted on your your first batch goes! Also, stay tuned for an updated pressure video thats coming soon. We have some cool upgrades we are currently reviewing!

@CyberneticCuldean 4 ай бұрын

Great info thanks. Might have to give this method a go.

@BenhamBrewing 4 ай бұрын

Please do! Let me know how it turns out!

@brianj4543 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Brian ( good name) i just got my Fermzill and doing my first batch ( ginger beer since i just harvested heaps of ginger from my garden) good advice and well presented

@BenhamBrewing 8 ай бұрын

Oh its a GREAT name! Appreciate the comment. Keep us posted on how the beer comes out with the Fermzilla. Also, to help minimize loss in your fermenter have you tried the FLOTit 2.0 yet? (floating dip tube upgrade). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsime7qgnKvOeKM.html That thing is a GAMECHANGER for pressure fermentation.

@GodfreyTempleton 10 ай бұрын

Interesting video, there is a lot of information here.

@BenhamBrewing 10 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@gene5780 4 ай бұрын

Great info.

@BenhamBrewing 4 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@TheBruSho Жыл бұрын

Nice video! Just found you and sub'd! Looking forward to more vids

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@jasperb6191 Жыл бұрын

A great video explaining the general properties of pressure fermentation! I have had great success with using Voss Kveik under pressure. I cannot recommend using Kveik enough especially for new brewers. If you already have a kegerator running commercial kegs I suggest you get 2 second hand corny kegs and the fermzila all rounder kit. This way you can BIAB a simple Pale Ale, pitch the yeast with out temp control, and in less than a week you can transfer to kegs and enjoy.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Kveik definitely takes the temperature component for new brewers, and widens the margin for error. Had not considered using Kveik for pressure ferm though. The yeast seem to do well under pressure in your experience?

@jasperb6191 Жыл бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing Ive tried Voss Kveik both under pressure and not. When not under pressure, Voss seems to have this mandarin orange rind flavor to it at 30c. This works well if thats what youre going for especially in pale ales and IPAs. Under pressure though the yeast profile is almost non existent. Ive had a batch done in 30c and under 15psi of pressure that turned out super clean which allowed the malts and hops to really pop. The same experiment brought the grains to glass in 5 days

@timothywilliams2021 Жыл бұрын

Problem i had when i started pressure fermenting was 5 gallon batch in a 5 gallon keg. Lots of blown out yeast crud. Tried a 7.5 gallon sanke type D keg with ball lock line adapters . It was a pain to disassemble and clean. Bought a fermzilla and it has been mostly good. My biggest gripe is the lids hard to remove. I usually release pressure then half unscrew the lid the add just a enough pressureto push it up. Greasing the o-ring also makes it easier to remove.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

YES! You have to be careful of a fermentations Krausen clogging your spunding valve, and having pressure build up beyond your kits tolerances. Thanks for the tips!

@ricardogamboa4334 Жыл бұрын

Great video. I have been pressure fermenting for awhile now but I still learned some new things. For dry hopping under pressure without expensive equipment I have used two different methods. The magnet method, at racking I have a magnet in the hop bag inside the fermenter and one outside. I remove the magnet outside when it is time to dry hop. You can also release the pressure and wait a few min then release again wait a min, then open toss in and close right after.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Good tips! Any issue that you've noticed with dropping a magnet into your beer? Or do you use some sort of food safe magnet?

@ricardogamboa4334 Жыл бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing at first I just wrapped a magnet in plastic wrap to try. Then I bought food safe magnets after.

@sr13500 Жыл бұрын

Would it be an option 😊to have the magnet only on the outside and a stainless steel spoon in the hop bag on the inside rather than a magnet?

@ssadams Жыл бұрын

I only use pressure for some of my lagers. It does a good job. Cheers 👍🍻🍺

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

If you can get over the initial equipment and understanding of pressure, its a lot of fun to play around with.

@JohnDoe-es5xh 3 ай бұрын

I'm actually preparing a Belgian dark ale under pressure and I reduced the pressure to about 10 osi, regarding ur advice at 00:06:25.

@BenhamBrewing 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@reyn66 Жыл бұрын

Great tips. Pressure fermention saves me so much time and work, and cleaning up. I also place my wort hot into the keg and seal it. That does a few things for me: It saves me time on my brew day. And it disinfects my already keg even more. I just pitch my yeast the next day as soon as the keg temp reaches its ideal temp.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've heard about letting the sterile wort sit overnight to cool. Any idea how much negative pressure that puts your keg under? I would imagine if you had minimal head space, it would not be too bad. I do wonder how the slow chilling impact chill haze in the finished beer (i.e. increases it/makes it more persistent). How is the clarity in your finished beers?

@reyn66 Жыл бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing I put wort in up to the weld line (4.5gallons?) I release the press, negative before the pitch. I have a handy spritzer with isopropyl alcohol and spray before I release. My beers come our very clear (Nottingham yeast).

@philcordeiro288 Жыл бұрын

I’m currently doing a NEIPA 15 gallon batch. I let natural fermentation for 72 hours to let the esters to be present.dry hopped and set to 12 psi… 50/50 Verdant and US-05

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

That is a great idea to allow the yeast to express their flavor profile before putting them under pressure, and suppressing them. Question for you, what temp do you start fermentation at, before capping it off? Do you keep the same temp for the entire fermentation, or do you allow it to free rise/ramp up once pressure has been applied?

@yourmetalgod69 2 ай бұрын

What if you want the esters, say from Kveiks ? I am planning a pressure fermented mead this summer.

@BenhamBrewing Ай бұрын

Dial back the pressure, or don't pressure ferment at all. Kveiks do very well up to 90 degrees F. If you want the esters, I would let the heat rise, and less/no pressure.

@larmckenna Жыл бұрын

I've kegged ales at 0.006 gravity points above target fg before and essentialy that pressure ferments to the finish and carbs up to approx 2.5volco2. There is additional trub to deal with but that could be an option for belgian and german styles. Ferment at ambient pressure fir a number of days and start spunding later. Or trap the final 0.006ish gravity points.

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Thats a great tip! Its amazing how little residual gravity can translate into so much carbonation. And using a floating dip tube helps keep the extra trub out of the way.

@larmckenna Жыл бұрын

@Benham Brewing thanks! it means 6g/L of fermentable sugar so that's about 114g per 5gal batch and I figured when I primed kegs that amount of dextrose usually did the trick for most styles. I was surprised nobody in my homebrew group thought of it before.

@LaT1n4e 4 ай бұрын

Hi ! Thank for sharing that knowledge. Appreciated the video :) Question tho. If I want to do a IPA with lots of hops, can I either very little pressure (2-3 psi) then drop hops and keep 2-3 just to avoir ocygen contact. Or eiter, ferment regularly (no pressure) but at the end, pressure transfert to avoid oxygen contact again ? Thanks !

@BenhamBrewing 4 ай бұрын

Yes, either way would work. I don't think 2-3 psi would have any effect on your fermenting beer, from a pressure standpoint (since its so low). Some larger fermenters, just with the amount of liquid, can put the yeast under that amount of pressure just from the volume.

@LaT1n4e 4 ай бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing thanks ! I was scared of the nuclear point to avoid volcano beer 😅🍺

@bluu_ice6554 Жыл бұрын

U guys should do a collab with Jay McKay, he's a dam good home brewer. Great tutorial video!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Maybe one day we will! Great suggestion!

@timallmand1509 11 ай бұрын

Great content, thanks. But i cant help but wonder why all the best commercial lager and Czech style pilsner brewers in the world go out of their way the use horizontal fermentation tanks of no more that 2 or 3 meters diameter so the pressure on the yeast is reduced. To go to that expense for tanks and floor space. It must effect the end product in some way🤷‍♂️. Just a thought.

@BenhamBrewing 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. They must only use temp control to control the yeast fermentation, instead of allowing pressure to help, and raising the temp up to compensate. Might be something that they can't dial in with the vertical tanks, so the flavor is slightly different. Not bad, necessarily, but not consistent with what their consumers are used to.

@GrubbyPaddler Ай бұрын

Just ordered a 60l fermzilla… I live in the tropics so was just hoping it will be more forgiving on temps

@BenhamBrewing Ай бұрын

It def should be better! Keep me posted on how it does!

@allanhaydock9327 Жыл бұрын

Has anyone looked or found a table that shows what yeasts are ok with pressure and those that aren't?

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Generally all of them are ok to ferment under pressure. It all depends on what your goal is. Faster fermentation? Suppressing yeast esters? Higher temp tolerance? I don't think a table exists as there are many factors that play into what each brewer is trying to achieve. I recommend you take yeast you are already familiar with, pressure ferment with it, and note the results. As a generally rule, Lager yeast do very well under pressure.

@jaroslavsimecek8452 Жыл бұрын

I am about to start brewing beer. Is there any way I can ferment the beer in the keg and then put the same keg inside my kegerator and directly draft the beer? Does anybody could please suggest yeast for pressure fermentation of Bohemian Pilsner Lager? Thank you very much for you help!

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

Technically you can, but you would need to invest in a floating dip tube so you are not pouring all the junk in the bottom of the keg. Also, you generally don't want to keep the beer on the yeast cake, as the yeast will start to die (autolysis) and explode giving your beer a brothy/yeasty flavor. If you can transfer to a second keg to get it off the yeast cake you will be much better off. As to the yeast, since you are looking at a lager style beer, you are in luck. Lager yeast tend to do very well under pressure, so you can choose any lager yeast you choose (like the Wyeast 21254 for Bohemian Lagers)

@jaroslavsimecek8452 Жыл бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing thank you very very much!!!

@briandempsey9367 Жыл бұрын

Can you suggest an Ale strain to use for experiment with pressure fermentation. I was thinking of trying out US-05 🤔

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

US-05 will work great under pressure, and is a great place to start. Its a general workhorse, very clean without being overly so, and flocculates nicely. Give it a go, and let me know how your experimentation goes!

@prodanman 11 ай бұрын

Very helpful video PS: What Stick you smoking at start of video?

@BenhamBrewing 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Sadly, I can't recall the specific cigar. I do remember it was a barber pole wrap from one of our local cigar stores. Perhaps I'll start giving a shoutout to what I'm enjoying during the brew days and video days.

@prodanman 11 ай бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing Great Cigar Shout Out idea. I love a good stick while brewing too

@JimDory 5 ай бұрын

Nobody seemed to ask the most important question: what cigar is that?

@BenhamBrewing 5 ай бұрын

Sadly, I don't recall the brand. I picked it up from my local smoke shop, it was a barber pole, but one of their house brands (so no label).

@aorakiboydog Жыл бұрын

No one seems to have a scale of temperature for a particular yeast, say I’m using US 05 they give a maximin range brewing normally but under pressure there is no figure ? People say about brewing under pressure that you can brew at higher temp but how high 🧐

@BenhamBrewing Жыл бұрын

If you re-watch the video, look at around the 5:16 mark. I talk about how you can generally take your yeast 10 degree's higher than you would normally ferment them at. So for your US-05, if you like how it expresses itself at 65, then take it to 85 to achieve a similar flavor profile, but faster. Hope that helps!

@aorakiboydog Жыл бұрын

@@BenhamBrewing Thank you so much for replying and the information, we are in Celsius here in New Zealand,we were imperial a while ago now metric a bit hard to get your head around it as aviation is still in imperial ! I shall subscribe 👍

@richardcagle5475 5 ай бұрын

Can't I just use a pressure fermenter like a regular fermenter as needed? At the end of the day they all seem to just be different designs of a bucket to me

@BenhamBrewing 5 ай бұрын

You certainly can! As long as its pressure capable, you can use it either way.

@richardcagle5475 5 ай бұрын

@BenhamBrewing I figured, but needed to hear it from someone who knows. Fermzilla ftw it is then. Now I just gotta land on a brew and temp control system an im all in. Thanks for the reply