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15% Off at Great Fermentations!

To celebrate Father’s Day, Great Fermentations is discounting everything by 15%. There are some exclusions. Use coupon code FATHER15 to get the deal.

15% Off at Great Fermentations!

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Great Fermentations Spring Sale! – up to 40% off

Great Fermentations Spring Sale discounts loads of gear and supplies by up to 40%. Time and quantities are limited. Check sale page to see if you can still get in on this.

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What’s the Difference Between TILT PRO and Standard? + Save on TILT Pro

tilt pro deal

Tilt PRO Bluetooth Hydrometer via Great Fermentations

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From the product description, check product page for current description, price and availability:

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

  • Check the gravity and temp of your beer from a compatible Apple or Android device, while your beer is fermenting!
  • The Pro is the next generation model, purpose built for high performance production scale stainless steel fermentation tanks.
  • High-gain antenna increases the range by 20% vs the original Tilt, allowing you to “see” your Tilt through thicker heads of foam and heavier stainless steel walls.
  • Pre-installed lithium-ion batteries can provide up to 3-5 years of power.

NOTE: If using more than one Tilt Pro at a time, you must use a different color Tilt Pro for each batch. Apps will not read multiple hydrometers of the same color.

 

  • Great Fermentations is marking this down $20 to $229.99 for HBF Readers
  • Use coupon code HBFTILTPRO to get the deal
  • Shipping is also free to addresses in the contiguous US

Save on TILT Pro!

Tilt vs Tilt Pro…

* 3x the volume and weight of the original provides improved specific gravity stability at high krausen
* Double the battery life can keep it powered from 3-5 years, depending on use
* Boosted range with a high-gain antenna that in testing increased range by 20% vs. the original Tilt. Now you can see your Tilt through thicker heads of foam and heavier stainless steel walls
* Includes an extra decimal of precision available from the sensors and to the read-out so there are now decimal degrees Fahrenheit as well as higher resolution Celsius

NOTE ON FERMENTER COMPATIBILITY: At a width of close to 2 inches, the Tilt Pro will not fit into a standard glass/plastic carboy. It is designed to be used in vessels with larger openings or ones with removable lids like Stainless Steel fermenters.

Related: Hands on Review: Tilt Bluetooth Fermentation Hydrometer!

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Announcing: New Streets Hazy IPA via Local Series Collection + When Worlds Collide… BBQ at Great Fermentations

New Streets Hazy IPA

From Great Fermentations

The second in our Local Series line of beer kits, This New England Style IPA made of local Indiana ingredients is a hoppy, hazy and delicious example of the style, developed and brewed in collaboration with Ray Kamstra of Indiana City Brewing!

New Streets Hazy IPA

When Worlds Collide… BBQ Supplies at Great Fermentations

Great Fermentations has started carrying Grilling and Smoker Supplies. At this point, they have a good selection of Bear Mountain Pellets. At $17.99 and free ship eligible. These are a great deal. Also a great add-on if you’re wanting to qualify for free shipping.

If you’re an avid outdoor cooker like me, check out my BBQ site, BBQ Finds

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Now is the Time to Brew Oktoberfest Beers – Get 20% Off at Great Fermentations

oktoberfest homebrew

From Great Fermentations

It’s a little known fact, but the pros start brewing their beers for Oktoberfest celebrations RIGHT NOW, so we thought you should too! Now for a limited time, save 20% OFF all of our Oktoberfest beer kits. Brew this spring and drink this fall!

NOTE: Deal available online and in-store. No promo code needed. Just add the kit(s) to your cart and go! Deal available for a limited time!

20% OFF OKTOBERFEST BEERS!

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Announcing: Tapcooler Nanocanner! + Related Reviews & Resources

tapcooler nanocanner can fillerFrom Great Fermentations:

The Tapcooler revolutionized counter pressure filling your bottles, and now they’ve done the same thing for cans! Introducing the Tapcooler Nanocanner™ Counter Pressure Can Filler. This product comes with all the items you need to counter pressure fill your cans of homebrew. Fill cans for that hiking trip, vacation, or just a few to send home with friends and family.

Already own a Tapcooler and want a Nanocanner™?

The great thing about the Nanocanner™ setup is that you can buy it all as one, or piece it together if you have existing Tapcooler bottle filler! Here is a list of the additional pieces you’ll need.

Nanocanner™ Can Holder
The heart of the Nanocanner™ system. Allows you to swivel, seal, and hold your can in place while filling. Your existing Tapcooler slides right into the hole on the top for perfect can filling.

Beer Valve Connector
This accessory allows you to hook up the Tapcooler directly to your keg (with a ball lock or pin lock disconnect), vs plugging it into your draft faucet.

Nanocanner™ Mount
The can holder attachment was designed to be mounted to something, so Tapcooler offers two types of mounts: a wall mount and a magnet mount.

REVIEWS and Related Resources!

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Announcing: Broad Ripple Brew Pub Indiana Special Bitter via Great Fermentations Local Series Collection

indiana special bitter

From Great Fermentations

Great Fermentations has teamed up with local ingredient suppliers and local breweries to bring you a project that is simply and truly LOCAL. We collaborated with 5 local breweries to come up 5 distinct beer recipes that are brewed with local ingredients. Join us on this journey throughout 2022 as we release 5 beer kits, and also come taste the commercial version of the beers at each brewery as they are released! You may even see these beers in cans on the store shelves!

The first in our Local Series line of beer kits, we are happy to partner with Jonathon Mullens at the Broad Ripple Brewpub, Sugar Creek Malts and Crazy Horse Hops to make this local take on a British classic! This beer exclusively uses malts from Sugar Creek Malting Company, including malted heirloom Bloody Butcher corn, for a truly unique beer unlike anything else you will be able to get out there.

INDIANA SPECIAL BITTER

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Announcing: Snark Lord Uber Imperial Whiskey Barrel Stout!

SNARK LORD RIS WHISKEY BARREL VARIANT

From Great Fermentations

Get ready for the Snark Lord Barrel Variant! This is a huge, delicious imperial Stout modeled after a “dark” commercially available beer with a strikingly similar name, with a few changes! A lot of our customers have loved our snarky version of the commercially available beer, so we thought we’d come up with a variation to add some spirit barrel character!

SNARK LORD RIS WHISKEY BARREL VARIANT

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New Tapcooler Accessories + Tapcooler Hands on Review

  • Great Fermentations has released a few new Tapcooler accessories including the pictured manual release plunger prv valve and two nanocanner accessories.
  • The Tapcooler can connect directly to your compatible forward sealing faucet (Ultratap, Vent-Matic, Perlick 600 series and Intertap – Review) and allows you to easily counter fill bottles directly from the tap!
  • Learn More about the Tapcooler!  Hands on Review: Tapcooler Counter Pressure Bottle Filler for Forward Sealing Faucets!

Complete Tapcooler Lineup! at Great Fermentations

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Announcing: Indiana Special Bitter Kits – Featuring Sugar Creek Malt & Crazy Horse Hops

ISB via Great Fermentations: Using grain from Sugar Creek and hops from Crazy Horse Hops a house yeast strain from Omega, we teamed up with the Broad Ripple Brew Pub to make an Indiana ESB. The perfect blend of grain and hops just like their house ESB. Using heirloom bloody butcher corn as well as other malts, it doesn’t get any more Indiana than this. ABV 5.5% 38.5 IBUs SRM 11.3

Indiana Special Bitter Kits – All Grain & Extract

Chillzilla Counterflow Wort Chiller

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Chillzilla Counterflow Wort Chiller – $199.99 at Great Fermentations, Save $20

Chillzilla Wort Chiller

Chillzilla Counterflow Wort Chiller via Great Fermentations

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The Chillzilla counterflow wort chiller is one of the quickest, easiest and most effective wort chillers on the market today! It has several unique features that set it apart from lesser chillers. First is its compact, heavy-duty copper construction which equals one tough unit with excellent thermal qualities that allow heat to be easily exchanged from hot wort to cold water. A 5 gallon batch can be cooled to ale pitching temperatures in 10 minutes or less, depending on chilling water temperatures.

In addition to its tough copper construction, Chillzilla includes a tube-in-tube design, where cold water flows through the outer tube in one direction, while hot wort flows through a twisted inner copper tube in the opposite direction. The twisted inner tube creates more turbulence in the cold water, which maximizes chilling, and the shape increases hot wort surface area, allowing wort to be chilled faster.

The Chillzilla also uses very little water, yet is quite effective at doing its job! Compact in size, measuring just 10 inches from the top of the coil to bottom and having a diameter of 6 inches, means that the Chillzilla can be mounted practically anywhere that is convenient! The all metal construction allows sanitation to be accomplished by boiling, heating or use of traditional sanitizers such as Star-San. You’ve never truly chilled until you’ve chilled with the Chillzilla!

NOTE: While it is possible to gravity feed the Chillzilla, using a brew pump like a RipTide brewing pump is highly recommended.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Hot Wort Inlet: 1/2 in. male NPT
Hot Wort Outlet: 1/2 in. Barb
Cold Water Inlet/Outlet: 3/4 in. garden hose fitting
Construction: Copper

 

Great Fermentations has this marked down $20 to $199.99 for a limited time. No coupon code is needed, check product page for current price & availability.

Chillzilla Counterflow Wort Chiller

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Hands on Review: Pumpzilla Brewing Pump

This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Tom Brennan.  Read more about Tom and grab a link to his website and YouTube channel below.

Hands on Review Pumpzilla Brewing Pump

One of the best investments I made years ago was adding a pump to my homebrew arsenal. Pumps move hot water to your mash tun and makes vorlaufing easy. They circulate wort to make chilling faster and it moves your brew into a fermentor. For me, it helped saved me from back aches the day after I brewed because I would have to lift a very heavy mash tun in my gravity setup.

Now there is a cost effective option, the Pumpzilla. It has some flaws, but they far outweigh the advantages from not having a pump.

Pumpzilla Specifications and Features

  • Stainless Steel head
  • Can be set on a flat surface by itself without tipping over
  • Quiet Operation
  • Center inlet design makes it easy to prime this pump as the head is easily flooded with wort
  • Inlet and outlet fittings are 1/2 in. male NPT so they will work with any of your standard homebrew fittings
  • Water resistant (not proof!) casing
  • 5 ft. Cord
  • On/Off Switch
  • Max Flow – 5 Gal / 19L per minute
  • Max Lift – 11 ft
  • Heat Rating: 100C (212F)
  • Voltage – 120v 60Hz
  • Current – 0.75A

Hands on Review

After opening the Pumpzilla packaging the first thing I noticed was how well it was built. The pump itself was dense and felt really rugged. The stainless steel head is always a plus over some plastic headed pumps you see at the same price point. An additional feature was a rocker switch on the wiring. In the absence of that one would either have to physically plug and unplug a pump to turn it on and off or attach it to a power strip with an on/off switch. The rocker switch has a very small hash mark to indicate “on”.

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PUMPZILLA BREWING PUMP WITH STAINLESS STEEL HEAD via Great Fermentations

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FREE Propper Starter With Stir Plate Purchase + Hands on Review

From Great Fermentations:

For a limited time, buy any of our StirStarter stir plates, and get a FREE can of Propper Starter Wort from Omega. If you have been waiting for the chance to make your own yeast starters at home, THIS is the sign (from above) to do it!

** FREE ** PROPPER STARTER WITH STIR PLATE PURCHASE

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Reviews!  Propper Starter and StirStarter

OR….

StirStarter XL 5L Stir Plate

As of this posting, Valubrew has thes 5L Capable stir plate is on sale for just $68.  This is a bargain for a larger capacity stir plate.  For some pricing clarity, I’m seeing this elsewhere for $80 to $99.99.  To sweeten the deal expedited shipping is free to most US addresses.  Check the offering description for current price and availability.

StirStarter XL 5L Stir Plate – includes free shipping to US addresses

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Announcing: Cryo Pop Hop Pellets from Yakima Chief

cryo pop hops

From Great Fermentations:

Yakima Chief Hops has pioneered the use of cutting-edge hop lab analysis techniques to create Cryo Pop™ Original Blend – a hop blend with the power to add a true “pop” of aromas and flavors in beer. YCH’s R&D facility houses one of the only labs in the world with the capability to analyze previously undetectable aromatic components, allowing us to explore beer-soluble hop compounds that survive the harsh brewing process.

These pellets can be used in single hop beers, as a blend with other hops to really amplify flavor and aroma, or in biotransformation for that super big pop of hop aroma. The uses are endless! Click the button to learn more and buy yours today!

CRYO POP ORIGINAL BLEND HOP PELLETS, 1 OZ.

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Announcing: Bloody Butcher Malted Red Corn By Sugar Creek Malt Co

BLOODY BUTCHER MALTED RED CORN BY SUGAR CREEK MALT COFrom Great Fermentations:

This varietal of corn is one of the most sought after for its unrivaled sweetness. It adds a corny sweetness to beer and is touted as being the absolute best type of corn for distilling.

Oh, and what’s even better, is that It’s malted right here in Indiana by Sugar Creek Malt Co.

BLOODY BUTCHER MALTED RED CORN BY SUGAR CREEK MALT CO

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Note from HBF: Depending on your location, you may need to obtain a license to distill alcohol

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Try Citralumbarillo Hop Blend For Free – with select recipe kit purchase

CITRALUMBARILLO HOP BLEND PELLETS - 1 OZ.

About Citralumbarillo Hop Blend

Hop blends? Yeah, we got those. Our proprietary blend of hops features a top secret mixture of Citra, Columbus and Amarillo hops. Super versatile and guaranteed to shine in IPA, DIPA, Pale or even American Pilsner and Cream Ale styles.

Alpha Acids: 8-15%
Beta Acids: 3-9%
Co-Humulone: Variable %
Total Oil: 2.3 – 3.5 mL / 100g
Typical Styles: IPA, DIPA, TIPA, Imperial IPA, American Stout, Cream Ale
Characteristics: Grapefruit, Candy Orange, Pine with Diggity-Dankness
Country: US
Possible Substitutes: Pfft, this stuff is awesome.

Try it for FREE, from Great Fermentations:

Double the dry hop charge in your next brew with our free dry hop giveaway. Buy a select IPA beer kit (extract or all-grain), and get a FREE 3 oz. dry hop of our popular Citralumbarillo hop blend. Combine that with the standard dry hop that comes with all these kits, and you’ve got yourself a DOUBLE DRY HOP!

Click the button below to see a list of eligible kits!

Shipping is free with qualifying orders of $55 or more to addresses in the contiguous US.

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Get Free Double Dry Hops w/60 Minute IPA Clone Purchase

From Great Fermentations:

Double the dry hop charge in your next brew with our free dry hop giveaway. Buy a select IPA beer kit (extract or all-grain), and get a FREE 3 oz. dry hop of our popular Citralumbarillo hop blend. Combine that with the standard dry hop that comes with all these kits, and you’ve got yourself a DOUBLE DRY HOP!

Click the button below to see a list of eligible kits!

Shipping is free with qualifying orders of $55 or more to addresses in the contiguous US.

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Free Double Dry Hops from Great Fermentations

From Great Fermentations:

Double the dry hop charge in your next brew with our free dry hop giveaway. Buy a select IPA beer kit (extract or all-grain), and get a FREE 3 oz. dry hop of our popular Citralumbarillo hop blend. Combine that with the standard dry hop that comes with all these kits, and you’ve got yourself a DOUBLE DRY HOP!

Click the button below to see a list of eligible kits!

Shipping is free with qualifying orders of $55 or more to addresses in the contiguous US.

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Great Fermentations Cyber Monday Sale – 15% Off Sitewide!

Great Fermentations Cyber Monday Sale is a discount of 15% sitewide with some exceptions when you use coupon code CYBER15.  Check GF for current availability and terms.

15% off Great Fermentations for Cyber Monday!

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$5 Off Trick at Great Fermentations – YMMV

Get $5 Off at Great Fermentations!

  • Visit Great Fermenations
  • Log in, create an account if you don’t have one.  Make sure to use a good email address.
  • Add something to your cart.
  • Leave and wait.
  • You *may* receive a follow up email from Great Fermentations for a one time use $5 off $75 coupon.  YMMV = your mileage may vary.  I regularly get this emails, but they may not always send them.  Additional restrictions may apply.
  • Get Free Shipping: Great Fermentations is offering free shipping for qualifying orders of $55 or more.

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