More Fermentasaurus Questions

ohh man,, I just wrote out a novel of an answer and lost it because I wasn't logged in... Now for the short version

Basically you miss out on what I think are the best features but since you are bottling that doesnt really matter, I think if you have to build a shelf and things I'm not sure on many advantages over a normal fermenter, except the yeast bottle, otherwise its bigger and more difficult to move around. If you bulk carbonate I guess you dont really have to move it full anyway.

If you ferment under pressure and then want to bottle you'd have to make sure you tried to bleed most of the CO2 out of the beer because it ends up nearly carbonated and it would be hard to know how much sugar to use. I think you'd have to take the pressure lid off or open the valve right up just after main ferment so it finishes off like a regular fermenter.

Saying that it still is a perfectly functioning regular fermenter and I wouldn't get the pressure kit at the start unless you really want it. Cheers!

You could carb in it, if thats what you mean by secondary by adding sugar mix, but you'd still need a gas bottle and beer gun to put it into bottles or dispense from it, it would be ok for half a dozen beers but then it'd run out of carb. Remembering that when you fill bottles that way at home they really need to be kept refrigerated and not aged, bottles of homebrew dont keep so well unless they are bottle carbed.

oops just reread what you said. I'm not sure you'd know how well the sugar mix was mixed in to be honest. You couldnt leave it for very long at all cause the yeast would start munching away immediately. You'd have to pick it up and stir it up I guess.

Thats the thing, if you not using the pressure kit etc its just a fermenter, yeah its a conical and yeah you can get the the yeast out but thats the only advantage really.